Basatin al-Assad () is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the

Tartus Governorate Tartus Governorate, also transliterated as Tartous Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة طرطوس / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ṭarṭūs'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Latakia Governorate to t ...

, located north of

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. Nearby localities include Baniyas to the north, Kharibeh to the southeast and al-Bayda to the south. It is situated just east of the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

coast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Basatin al-Assad had a population of 3,288 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Tartus Governorate. The inhabitants of Basatin al-Assad, as well as Baniyas city, al-Bayda and

Marqab Margat, also known as Marqab ( ar, قلعة المرقب, ''Qalaat al-Marqab'', lit=Castle of the Watchtower), is a castle near Baniyas, Syria, which was a Crusader fortress and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller. It is locat ...

, are predominantly Sunni Muslims, in contrast to much of the area which is largely inhabited by members of the Alawite community.Holliday, Joseph
The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War
''Middle East Security Report 8.'' Institute for the Study of War. March 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Basatin Assad Populated places in Baniyas District