Ras al-Bassit is a small town and archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, about 53 kilometres north of Latakia, known in antiquity as Posidium or Posideium. The site has been occupied since at least the late Bronze Age, when it served as a Ugaritic trading outpost, and continued as a fortified port through the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Crusader periods. Excavations took place from 1971 to 1984 and have resumed since 2000. The modern town is known for its black sand beaches and its mostly Alawite population, with a shrine to Saint George standing to its north.
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Latitude35.847777 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Ras al-Bassit (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 35.847777, longitude 35.824785
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 35.8478,35.8248
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 15.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.75, 35.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.75, 35.75
35.75 35.75 Csa
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Asia/Damascus; SY has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Asia/Damascus; SY has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq ... 2:00 Syria EE%sT 2022 Oct 28 0:00 3:00 - %z
Wikidata: Ras al-Bassit
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