Acre

The crusader city of Acre in the southern Levant was enormously important during the Middle Ages, and the last stronghold of the Latin kingdoms prior to their fall in 1291; at that point the city was destroyed by the Mamluks and continued to exist only as a small fishing village. Its inclusion in texts like Dati's (written over a century later) attests to its continuing major role in Europeans' mental geography of the Levant. See also Ascalon, Jaffa, and Caesarea. Campbell #1519.