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Syrian Coastal Mountain Range

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These limestone hills rising to some 1500 m, the ancient Mons Bargylus or present Jebel Ansariyeh, inhabited by an Alawi population since the Middle Ages, have never been open to archaeological investigation, and remain an almost complete blank in the archaeological and social map of the
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running north–south, parallel to the coastal plain. The mountains have an average width of 32 kilometres (20 mi), and their average peak elevation is just over 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) with the highest peak, Nabi Yunis, reaching 1,562 metres (5,125 ft), east of
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Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, and natural history
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Forrer, Emil Orgetorix Gustav (1928). "Barga". In Ebeling, Erich; Meissner, Bruno (eds.).
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and are thus more fertile and more heavily populated than the eastern slopes. The
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Between 1920 and 1936, the mountains formed parts of the eastern border of the
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most probably located in the vicinity of the mountains; it was a city of the
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which has traditionally lived there, though the former term is based on an
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Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Volume 4
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Empire in the third millennium BC, and then a vassal kingdom of the
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A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
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Cyrus Herzl Gordon; Gary Rendsburg; Nathan H. Winter (2002).
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flows north alongside the range on its eastern verge in the
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus
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Ugarit in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic
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which separates An-Nusayriyah Mountain from the coastal
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The western slopes catch moisture-laden winds from the
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Federal Research Division, Library of Congress (2005)
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for the community that is now considered insulting.
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An-Nusayriyah Mountains

Elevation
Syria
Range coordinates
35°36′N 36°14′E / 35.60°N 36.24°E / 35.60; 36.24
Arabic
Syria
Latakia
Alawite population
Middle Ages
Pliny the Elder
Greek
romanized
Barga
Eblaite
Hittites
Bahra’
Alawi
ethnoreligious group
antiquated label
Mediterranean Sea
Orontes River
Ghab valley
longitudinal trench
Masyaf
strike-slip fault
Mount Lebanon
Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Lebanon

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