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Acre – Templar equivalent of Las Vegas!

Acre – Templar equivalent of Las Vegas!

A city in the crusades where it was all about making money.

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Tony McMahon
Jan 20, 2021
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After the Knights Templar and the crusaders lost control of Jerusalem to Saladin and his Saracen armies, they shifted their base of operations in the Holy Land to the city of Acre. Now I’ve been to Acre (Akko as it’s now called in Hebrew) and yet still didn’t appreciate its massive importance and sheer wealth.

This wasn’t some sleepy backwater. In many w…

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