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, governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Lat ...

, located north of

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. Nearby localities include

Baniyas Baniyas ( ar, بَانِيَاس ') is a Mediterranean coastal city in Tartous Governorate, northwestern Syria, located south of Latakia (ancient Laodicea) and north of Tartous (ancient Tortosa). It is known for its citrus fruit orchards an ...

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

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 Muslim Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word ''Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...

s, in contrast to much of the area which is largely inhabited by members of the

Alawite The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Is ...

community.Holliday, Joseph
The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War
''Middle East Security Report 8.'' Institute for the Study of War. March 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Basatin Assad Populated places in Baniyas District