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Latakia

noun
1.
Aromatic Turkish tobacco.
2.
A seaport on the western coast of Syria.  Synonym: Al Ladhiqiyah.





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... perpetrated a similar outrage on boat parties on May 18, 1915, at Banias, near Latakia; a tug and a boat belonging to the D'Estrees were fired on from roofs and landing places while chasing a merchantman belonging to the enemy that was seeking refuge in the port. As a punishment for the treachery of the civilians, who had posed as peaceable inhabitants until ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... and to be truly and humbly penitent. I had the complete command of their affections, for at any moment I could make their young hearts bound and their old hearts jump by offering a handful of tobacco, and yet, believe me, it was not in the first soirée that my store of Latakia was exhausted. ...
— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake


Words linked to "Latakia" :   Turkish tobacco, Syrian Arab Republic, Syria, city, port, urban center, Al Ladhiqiyah, metropolis


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