Castle
Mahalibeh Castle
🇸🇾 Syria
Mahalibeh Castle (Arabic: قلعة المهالبة), formerly known as Balatanos or Balatunus (name derived from the Latin Platanus), is located on a high mountain summit near Lattakia, 40 km inland of the Syrian coast. The Mahalibeh Castle is also an inhabited place, administratively part of the Jawbat Burghal subdistrict of the Qardaha District of Latakia Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 772 in the 2004 census.
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Mahalibeh Castle ranks #6,729 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #34 of the 38 mapped in Syria. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Latakia, 28 km away. It is one of the 113 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Levant. See how Syria compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Mahalibeh Castle?
Mahalibeh Castle stands in Syria, at 35.50811°, 36.08693°.
How famous is Mahalibeh Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,729 of 8,134 worldwide, and #34 in Syria. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Mahalibeh Castle?
Bani Qahtan Castle, about 9 km away.
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