Akka

Akka or AKKA may refer to:

People

Akka (spirit), a Finnish goddess

Akka Mahadevi (12th century), Kannada poet

Narmada Akka (died 2012), member of the Communist Party of India

Places

Arabic name of Acre, Israel

Akka, Morocco, a town in Morocco

Áhkká, a mountain in northern Sweden

In fiction

Akka (film), a 1976 Indian film

Akka (TV series), a Tamil soap opera

Akka Chellelu, a 1970 Telugu film

Akka, a character in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Other uses

8034 Akka, a near-Earth asteroid

SS Akka, a German (later Kriegsmarine) cargo ship

Akka (toolkit), a software runtime and toolkit for concurrent and distributed computing in Java and Scala

AKKA, Association of Kannada Kootas of America, a non profit organization

AKKA, the space/time disintegration weapon in Jack Williamson's novel Legion of Space (1934)

Akkaş

Akkaş is a Turkish surname also exist in lebanon as dakkaş as well as in north western syria. Notable people with the surname include:

Barbaros Akkaş (born 1976), Turkish basketball coach

Halil Akkaş (born 1983), Turkish middle distance runner

Acre, Israel

Acre (/ˈɑːkər/ or /ˈeɪkər/, Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkko, most commonly spelled as Akko; Arabic: عكّا‎, ʻAkkā) is a city in the northern coastal plain region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. The city occupies an important location, as it sits on the coast of the Mediterranean, traditionally linking the waterways and commercial activity with the Levant. Acre is one of the oldest sites in the world.

Historically, it was a strategic coastal link to the Levant. In crusader times it was known as St. John d'Acre after the Knights Hospitaller of St John order who had their headquarters there. Acre is the holiest city of the Bahá'í Faith, and as such gets many Baha'i pilgrims. In 2014 the population was 47,464. Acre is a mixed city, that includes Jews, Muslims, Christians and Baha'is. The mayor is Shimon Lankri, who was re-elected in 2011.

Etymology

The name 'Akka is recorded in Egyptian sources from about 2000 BC, with three signs (the initial guttural, "k" and "a"; followed by the sign for "foreign city").