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Latakia Governorate Latakia Governorate, also transliterated as Ladhakia Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة اللاذقية / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Turkey's Hata ...

, Syria , source1_coordinates= , source1_elevation = , mouth = south of Latakia , mouth_location = , mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = , river_system = , basin_size = , tributaries_left = , tributaries_right = , custom_label = , custom_data = , extra = Nahr al-Kabir al-Shamali ( ar, النهر الكبير الشمالي, lit=the northern great river,

Ugaritic Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language and so the only known Amorite dialect preserved in writing. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologist ...

: 𐎗𐎈𐎁𐎐, ''rḥbn'') is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

, Syria.

History

During

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period, the river was known as "''Raḥbānu''".

Course

Al-Kabir al-Shamali river rises in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range, north western Syria at the Turkish borders, and runs through a plain area to the south west to finally flow into the

Mediterranean Sea 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 and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

south of Latakia.

Dams

*''16 Tishreen dam'', built to be used in power generation, storage of rain and river water, and the creation of ''Mashqita lake'' for fishing and tourism. *''Baradun Dam'', is another dam under construction on the river to the north of the previous one. However, the construction was halted during the Syrian Civil War.

References

Rivers of Syria {{Syria-river-stub Ugarit