  tamra (,  or ) is an arab city in the north district of israel located in the lower galilee  north of the city of shefa-'amr and approximately  east of akko (acre). == history == archeological excavations have found remains from the iron age ii, late persian/early hellenistic, roman empire, and the byzantine and umayyad periods.porat, 2005, tamramokary, 2010, tamra, final report several buildings, populated in the byzantine and early islamic period have been excavated.abu fana, 2009, tamra in the 1253, during the crusader era, john aleman, lord of caesarea, sold several villages, including tamra, to the hospitallers.delaville le roulx, 1883, p. 184; cited in clermont-ganneau, 1888, pp. 309 -310; cited in rÃ¶hricht, 1893, rrh, p. 319, no. 1210 ===ottoman era=== tamra, like the rest of palestine, was incorporated into the ottoman empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 the village was located in the nahiya of acca of the liwa of safad. the population was 22 muslim households. they paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, occasional revenues, beehives and winter pastures.hÃ¼tteroth and abdulfattah, 1977, p. 192note that rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the safad register that hÃ¼tteroth and abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9 in 1859 the british consul rogers estimated the population to be 1,200, all muslims, and the cultivated area 80 [[fe
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