Extent of Crusaders' objective? (4)

I believe the answer is:

acre

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(Other definitions for acre that I've seen before include "Care about the land measure" , "Care about this bit of land" , "Area measure - Israeli port - Brazilian state" , "amount of land" , "Old unit of area - old port" .)

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