Akabah, a fortified village of Arabia, situated in an extensive date grove, or oasis, near the northern extremity of the gulf of Akabah. It is believed to occupy the site of either the Scriptural Elath (the Aelana of the Greeks) or Eziongeher. (See Elath.) - Gulf of (the Aela-nitic gulf of the ancients), an inlet of the Red sea, about 12 in. wide, forming its N. E. arm after its bifurcation, lat. 28° N. It extends in a N. E. direction to lat. 29° 32' NY, bounding the mountainous peninsula of Sinai on the E.