Mount Nabi Yunis () is the highest point of the

Syrian Coastal Mountain Range The Coastal Mountain Range (, ''Silsilat al-Jibāl as-Sāḥilīyah'') also called Jabal al-Ansariya, Jabal an-Nusayria or Jabal al-`Alawīyin (Ansari, Nusayri or Alawi Mountains) is a mountain range in northwestern Syria running north–south, ...

(Jabal Ansariya or the Alawite Mountains) in northwestern Syria, about 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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

port city of

Latakia Latakia (; ; Syrian Arabic, Syrian pronunciation: ) is the principal port city of Syria and capital city of the Latakia Governorate located on the Mediterranean coast. Historically, it has also been known as Laodicea in Syria or Laodicea ad Mar ...

. Its peak is above sea level. Atop the

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is a (shrine) and both the shrine and

are named after Nabi Yunis (the 'Prophet

Jonah Jonah the son of Amittai or Jonas ( , ) is a Jewish prophet from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE according to the Hebrew Bible. He is the central figure of the Book of Jonah, one of the minor proph ...

'), a popular saintly figure among the Alawites of Syria and Turkey.

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* *{{cite book , last1=Procházka-Eisl , first1=Gisela , last2=Procházka , first2=Stephan , title=The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia (Southern Turkey) and Its Sacred Places , date=2010 , publisher=Harassowitz Verlag , location=Wiesbaden , isbn=978-3-447-06178-0 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ixl3NcvAixAC&pg=PA123 Mountains of Syria Geography of Latakia Governorate