About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Buildings and structures in Latakia, Education in Latakia, People from Latakia, Ugarit, Hurrian song, Meaataz Kailouni, Abdulkader Dakka, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Ahmad Haj Mohamad, Nasim Al Safarjalani, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Salhi, Chadi Cheikh Merai, Minet el-Beida, Ras Ibn Hani, Anatolius of Laodicea, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Ali Aslan, Alawite State, Port of Latakia, Aref Dalila, Tishreen SC, Zyad Chaabo, Moustafa Shakosh, Michel Kilo, Eusebius of Laodicea, Hutteen SC, Tishreen University, Hamida al-Attas, Marwan Sayedeh, Bushra al-Assad, Nadim Sabagh, Mustafa Hamsho, National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Latakia, Themison of Laodicea, 1987 Mediterranean Games, Bassel Al-Assad International Airport, Ahmad Deeb, Philonides of Laodicea, Hanna Mina, Postage stamps and postal history of Alawite State, Sulaf Fawakherji, Muhammad El Majzoub, Al-Basil Stadium, Al-Assad Stadium, Cote d'Azur, Syria, Latakia Sports City, Syrian tetrapolis, List of people from Latakia. Excerpt: Latakia, or Latakiyah (and often locally transliterated as Lattakia) (Arabic: Al-Ladhiqiyah), is the principal port city of Syria, as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate. In addition to serving as a port, the city is a manufacturing center for surrounding agricultural towns and villages. Its population in 2009 was 650,558 and consisted of Sunnis, Alawites and Greek Orthodox Christians. Though the site has been inhabited since the second millennium BC, the modern-day city was first founded in the 4th century BC under the rule of the Seleucid empire. Latakia was subsequently ruled by the Romans, then the Ummayads and Abbasids in the 8th-10th centuries. Under their rule, the Byzantines frequently attacked the city, periodically recapturing it before losing it again to the Arabs, particularly the Fatim...
