http://picasaweb.google.com/ddofer/TheAncientCityOfAko
I've uploaded 52 out of the 56 pictures from my trip to Ako from a few weeks ago as part of my photography course.
The last part of the set based on a single part of the harbour and a castlewall is part of my exercise in photojournalism, though the teacher game me quite a lot of critique on it, tell me what you think
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Odd, The URL is wrong since Google for some reason... changed sets .Sharpshooter wrote:What a wonderful set of...404s?
Here's the new updated URL:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ddofer/TheAncientCityOfAko
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I would exactly call Ako an ancient city, its only about 300 years old
The town i live in is older than that. Doesn't have the same sites though...
The town i live in is older than that. Doesn't have the same sites though...
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I would exactly call Ako an ancient city,
Well it's the old part of it, with parts dating back to the Crusades (The Crusaders tunnel) and the Napoleonic wars.Doesn't have the same sites though...
I always thought that it was from the original hebrew settlement in Israel, never checked it, you may be right, if so I may change the set name.its only about 300 years old
All the pictures are up, all 56.
I'm now uploading pictures of monkeys, peacocks and other animals from a wilderness park in Israel-
Coming soon top a thread near you
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The town built up around the castle which was built in the 1640's. according to the internet that is. That could be very wrong though.
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Akko on WikipediaZac Naloen wrote:The town built up around the castle which was built in the 1640's. according to the internet that is. That could be very wrong though.
Looks like you're wrong old boy. (Concerning the age of the city/town)The Greek and Roman periods
The Greek historians name it Ake (Josephus calls it also Akre); but the name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy Soter, after the partition of the kingdom of Alexander the Great. [[1]]
Strabo refers to the city as once a rendezvous for the Persians in their expeditions against Egypt.
About 165 BC Simon Maccabaeus defeated the Syrians in many battles in Galilee, and drove them into Ptolemais.
The city was also assaulted and captured by Alexander Jannaeus, by Cleopatra VII of Egypt and by Tigranes II of Armenia.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.