Place:Ṭarṭūs, Syria

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NameṬarṭūs
Alt namesTartussource: wikipedia
Tarţūssource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 628
Tarṭūssource: Times Atlas of the World (1994) p 191
Ṭarṭūs governoratesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Ṭarṭūṣsource: Britannica Book of the Year (1990) p 724
TypeGovernorate
Coordinates34.917°N 35.867°E
Located inSyria     (1970 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Al Ḥamīdīyah
Arwad
Burj Ṣāfītā
Bāniyās
Hosn Soleiman
Marqab
Tartous
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Tartus Governorate, also transliterated as Tartous Governorate, ( / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ṭarṭūs) is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Latakia Governorate to the north, Homs and Hama Governorates to the east, Lebanon to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It is one of the few governorates in Syria that has an Alawite majority. Sources list the area as 1,890 km² or 1,892 km², with its capital being Tartus. Ṭarṭūs is a governorate.

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