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Mahalibeh Castle

Syria

Mahalibeh Castle, formerly known as Balatanos or Balatunus (name derived from the Latin Platanus), is located on a high mountain summit near Lattakia, 40 km inland of the Syrian coast. The Mahalibeh Castle is also an inhabited place, administratively part of the Jawbat Burghal subdistrict of the Qardaha District of Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 772 in the 2004 census.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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