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Mount Nabi Yunis, Syria

Coordinates: 35°38′25″N 36°13′1″E / 35.64028°N 36.21694°E / 35.64028; 36.21694
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Mount Nabi Yunis
Mount Nabi Yunis is located in Syria
Mount Nabi Yunis
Mount Nabi Yunis
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Highest point
Elevation1,568 m (5,144 ft)
Coordinates35°38′25″N 36°13′1″E / 35.64028°N 36.21694°E / 35.64028; 36.21694
Geography
LocationLatakia Governorate, Syria
Parent rangeSyrian Coastal Mountain Range (Jabal Ansariya)

Mount Nabi Yunis (Arabic: جبل النبي يونس, romanizedJabal Nabī Yūnis) is the highest point of the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range (Jabal Ansariya or the Alawite Mountains) in northwestern Syria, about 40 kilometers (25 mi) east of the Mediterranean port city of Latakia. Its peak is 1,568 meters (5,144 ft) above sea level.[1] Atop the mountain is a maqam (shrine) and both the shrine and mountain are named after Nabi Yunis (the 'Prophet Jonah'), a popular saintly figure among the Alawites of Syria and Turkey.[2]

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  • Balanche, Fabrice (2000). "Les Alaouites, l'espace et le pouvoir dans la région côtière syrienne : une intégration nationale ambiguë" (in French). Tours: Université François Rabelais. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  • Procházka-Eisl, Gisela; Procházka, Stephan (2010). The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia (Southern Turkey) and Its Sacred Places. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-06178-0.