Ras al-Bassit (Arabic: رأس البسيط), the classical Posidium or Posideium (Greek: Ποσιδήιον and Ποσείδιον, Posidḗion), is a small town in Syria named for...

history. Woolley identified Al-Mina with Herodotus' Posideion, but more recent scholarship places Posideion at Ras al-Bassit. Robin Lane Fox has made a...

Posideium (modern Ras al-Bassit). Even closer, the earliest Hellenic foothold in the Levant lies at the beach on its northern flank at Al Mina. Here Euboeans...

Orontes river at the site Al-Mina in the early 8th century BC. The Greek colony of Posideion on the promontory Ras al-Bassit was colonised just to the...

recognised: the Saint George Bay in Beirut, Lebanon the Ras Ibn Hani cape in Latakia, Syria the Ras al-Bassit cape in northern Syria. the Minet el-Beida ("White...

Cilicia and Syria. Herodotus, meanwhile, placed the line further south at Ras al-Bassit in what is now Syria. Xenophon also say that it was an Emporium. In...

although Herodotus at one point places the division further south at Ras al-Bassit (the classical Posidium). There is a lot of heavy industry around Iskenderun...

State, the Syrian–Turkish border now touches the Mediterranean coast at Ras al-Bassit, south of Mount Aqra (35°55′44″N 35°55′04″E / 35.9288°N 35.9178°E...

Slunfeh (east Latakia Governorate), Masyaf (East Tartus Governorate) and Ras al-Bassit (Latakia coastal city). There were further reports of new Iranian contingents...

recovered. St Symeon gives its name to a Crusader style of pottery. Ras al-Bassit, the site of another port of the Principality of Antioch Steven Runciman...

Slunfeh (east Latakia Governorate), Masyaf (East Tartus Governorate) and Ras al-Bassit (Latakia coastal city). There were also further reports of new Iranian...

light pine forest of Yayladağı district of Hatay Province of Turkey and Ras al-Bassit of Syria. Burrows were often observed in association with rotten pine...

Ras al-Ein (Arabic: رأس العين; alternative English spellings Ras Al-Ain, Ras al Ayn, etc.) is one of the 22 administrative sub-districts of the city of...

Kherbet al-Souk (Arabic: خريبة السوق, romanized: Khirbat al-Sūq) is an area on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan and part of the Greater Amman Municipality...

Tla' Al-Ali is one of the districts of Amman governorate, Jordan. "Jordan: Administrative Division, Governorates and Districts". citypopulation.de. Retrieved...

from Bani Sakhr, like Al-Khraisha, Al-Arabid, Al-Jbour, Al-Qudahh. The village contains the ruins of an Umayyad complex, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, a qasr-type...

Wadi Al-Seer or Wadi as-Seer (Arabic: وادي السير, meaning "Valley of the Orchards") is a valley (wadi) west of Amman, which gave its name to one of the...

Marj Al-Hamam (Arabic: مرج الحمام; lit. 'Meadow of Doves') is the district number 27 of Metropolitan Amman – Greater Amman Municipality (GAM); it is situated...

Qasr al-Hallabat (Arabic: قصر الحلابات) is an Umayyad desert castle, with the associated bath house of Hammam as-Sarah east of it. The nearby modern town...

'Iraq al-Amir or Araq el-Amir (Arabic:عراق الأمير - literally, "Caves of the Prince") is the name shared by a town and nearby caves, within the municipality...

`Urjan al Gharbiyah is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan. It is located north of the capital of Amman. Maplandia world gazetteer...

Al-Jizah (also spelled Jize), historically known as Ziza or Zizia, is a town in northwestern Jordan. It is the 22nd district of the Amman Governorate....

neighborhoods: Al-Jama'a, Al-Rasheed, Qurneh, Al-Sadiq, Al-Zaitounah, Al-Mahabah, and Al-Baladiyat. Rujm el-Jebeha, an archeological site in Al-Jubeiha, includes...

Al Bunayyat al Janubiyah is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan. It is located south-west of Amman the capital of Jordan. Climate type...

Badr Al-Jadeedah is one of the areas of the Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan. "Jordan: Administrative Division, Governorates and Districts". citypopulation...

Umm Quseir, Mogableen and Bnayyat area, better known as Al Muqabalayn (Arabic: المقابلين) is an area in the western south of Amman, the capital city of...

Al-Nasr is one of the areas of the Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan. "Jordan: Administrative Division, Governorates and Districts". citypopulation.de...

Al-'Al (Arabic: الْعَال, romanized: al-ʿĀl) is a town in the Amman Governorate of northern Jordan. It is thought to be the location of the biblical town...

Ibn Al-Hussein Industrial Estate, and the largest cemetery in greater Amman, as well as the Caves of Raqeem site mentioned in the Qur'an (Surat al-Kahf)...

Al Shumaysani is a neighborhood in the Al-Abdali district of the Amman Governorate in north-western Jordan. Maplandia world gazetteer v t e...