Acon

Germanie and Italie procured vnto the order: and the saide Hospitall was remoued from Ierusalem vnto Ptolemais, otherwise called Acon, and the foresaid Order grew and mightily increased, whereof I will hereafter discourse more at large in my Treatise of Syria.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

Among Jerome Amaltheus's other epigrams I find several about this "Acon;" and one, entitled "De duabus Amicis," begins --

Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

"Ptolemais" (which is also called Acon) "is a city of Galilee on the sea-coast, situate in a great champaign, but it is compassed with hills; on the east, sixty furlongs off, with the hill-country of Galilee; on the south with Carmel, distant a hundred and twenty furlongs; on the north, with a very high mountain which is called Climax" (or the ladder), "belonging to the Tyrians, and is a hundred furlongs distant.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

In December, it sold a Minnesota refinery and 166 SuperAmerica convenience stores and other pipeline assets to the private-equity firms TPG Capital and Acon Investments.

Increase in Crude Price Imperils Oil Refiners Daniel Gilbert 2011

Either way, it all ended up with a bunch of us snaffling some red wine from Moominhanna's and heading back to my hotel room to drink it (or -- * ahem* -- spill it) in a re-enactment of the åwesome Acon (including Toni asleep on the floor, popping up occasionally at the side of the bed like a vampire meerkat.)

Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

Either way, it all ended up with a bunch of us snaffling some red wine from Moominhanna's and heading back to my hotel room to drink it (or -- * ahem* -- spill it) in a re-enactment of the åwesome Acon (including Toni asleep on the floor, popping up occasionally at the side of the bed like a vampire meerkat.)

Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Acon, quondam Ptolomaidem, antiquitùs Acharon, quæ tempore quo eam vltimò Christiani tenebant circa annum incarntionis Domini 1280. erat Ciuitas valdè fortis, sed modò apparent eius magnæ ruinæ.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Item propè Acon ad ripam dictam Beleon, est fossa multum vtilis, et mirabilis quæ dicitur fossa Mennon, hæc est rotunda circumferentia, cuius diameter continet prope 100. cubitos, plena alba et resplendente arena, et mundi ex qua conficitur mundum et perlucidum vitrum.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Acon via versus Jerusalem bifurcatur: nam qui tenet vnum latus potest ire secus Iordanem fluuium, in Ciuitatem Damascum, qui verò aliud, ibit in tribus aut quatuor dietis Gazam, de qua olim fortis

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Acon versùs mare, ad 120. stadia, quorum 16. leucam constituunt, est mons Carmeli, vbi morabatur præfatus Elias, et super alium montem Villa Saffra vbi sanctus Iacobus, et Ioannes germani

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004