Lattaquié

Lattaquié is a town of Syria (Turkish “Latakieh” in , Arab “Al Ladhiqiyya” in ), chief town of the governorship homonymous and located at. This Ville is established on a site occupied very in the past, near to old the Ougarit. The city which was a chief town of Satrapie under the kingdom séleucide then bore the name of “Laodicée”. After the Roman and Byzantine domination, it formed part, at the time of the Croisades, the frank kingdom of Jerusalem, before falling down to the hands of the Turks (Ottoman Empire). During the Entre-deux-guerres it is the capital of a transitory State of the Alaouites under Mandat French.

It owes its importance old and current, on the one hand with the fact that it has the only port protected well from the coast Syria and, on the other hand, with the proximity of the fertile valley of the Oronte, which involved the creation of an food industry and textile.

; 1970: 1.200.000 h. (total population), including 15,000 Catholics ; 2000: 2.000.000 H

The city is twinned with:

West of Syria

The activity of the port of Lattaquié, one of the lungs of the country, reflects the effervescence of a city in full expansion. In 1920, the French detached the Lebanon of historical Syria and reduced the Syrian littoral to a simple “window”, at the same time depriving the new Port state of Beirut and Tripoli. Lattaquié was consequently to become the harbor city most dynamic of modern Syria.

Some vestiges dating from the Roman epoch are worth the turning. In the south, to 500 m of the Moghrabi mosque, there remains of a Roman colonnade four columns with Corinthian capital. A little further, you will see a Tétrapyle; this door with four bays, set up under the reign of Severe Septime (193-211), marked the crossing of the two ways, cardo maximus and decumanus , which formed the framework of the Roman city.

But the principal attraction of Lattaquié on the tourist level lies in its beautiful beaches, in north. The road serves in particular Shatt el-Azraq, small Syrian Riviera , the smartest beach and best maintained the littoral. From there, you will be able to make a turning by the course of Short-nap cloth Shamra, less for its own interest - the ruins are rather formless - that to remember it the antique Ougarit. The latter, one of the cities the most prestigious Levantines, invented the model of all the Alphabet S. (more the archaeological beautiful pieces appear in the National museum of Alep.)

Christianity was established early in these places, where one came in pilgrimage to venerate an icon of the Virgin. The crusaders seized into 1102 “Tortose” (Tartous), and made a position of it that the Templiers were going to make so to speak impregnable.

Religions

Moslem S

Archéparchie de Lattaquié (Melkite S) Laodicenus Graecorum Melkitarum

bishops:

Nikolaki Sawaf, archbishop
Michel Yatim, highly skilled archbishop

Information: set up: April 28th, 1961 Rite: Melkite postal address: Street Al-Moutannabi, B.P. 151, Lattaquié, Syria

Éparchie of Lattaquié (Maronite),

(in English: Eparchy off Lattaquié (Maronite)) (in Latin: Eparchia Laodicenus Maronitarum)

bishop: Massoud Massoud

set up on August 4th, 1977 with a rite Maronite

addresses: B.P. 161, Rue Hamrat, Tartous, Syria

previously, Latin name, Laodicensus Maronitarum , set up on April 16th, 1954

Ordinaries :

Georges Abi-Saber, O.L.M. (4 Aug 1977 Appointed - 2 May 1986 Appointed, auxiliary bishop of Antioche (Maronite))
Antoine Torbey † (2 May 1986 Appointed - 23 Jun 2001 Retired)
Massoud Massoud (23 Jun 2001 Appointed -)

affiliated bishops:

Georges Abi-Saber, O.L.M. (Bishop: 4 Aug 1977 to 2 May 1986)
Massoud Massoud (Priest: 2 Aug 1970; Bishop: 23 Jun 2001 -)
Joseph Salamé † (Apostolic Administrator: 24 Sep 1967 to 4 Aug 1977)
Antoine Torbey † (Priest: 24 Mar 1951; Bishop: 2 May 1986 to 23 Jun 2001)

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