Al-Rabiea ( ar, الربيعة, Al-Rābeīā), also spelled Rabia ( ar, ربيعة, Rābīāh) or is a town in northwestern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located north of

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. Nearby localities include Kesab to the north,

Mashqita Mashqita ( ar, مشقيتا) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located north of Latakia. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Bayda, Al-Shamiyah and Burj Islam to the west, al-Bahluliyah to the east and ...

and Ayn al-Bayda to the southwest and

Qastal Ma'af Qastal Ma'af ( ar, قسطل معاف) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located north of Latakia. Nearby localities include Kesab to the north, Mashqita and Ayn al-Bayda to the south and Rabia to t ...

to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Rabia had a population of 1,986 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Rabia ''

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' ("subdistrict"), which consisted of 21 localities with a collective population of 8,214 in 2004.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Latakia Governorate. The inhabitants of the town and the subdistrict are predominantly

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s of Turkmen origin. During the Syrian civil war, it was controlled by the

Free Syrian Army The Free Syrian Army (FSA) ( ar, الجيش السوري الحر, al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a loose faction in the Syrian Civil War founded on 29 July 2011 by officers of the Syrian Armed Forces with the goal of bringing down the govern ...

until 24 January 2016, when Syrian government forces supported by Russian air strikes took control of the town, cutting off a channel of supplies for the anti-Assad rebels from

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and returned the city to government control.

References

{{Latakia Governorate, latakia Populated places in Latakia District Towns in Syria