Nur Mountains
Ras al-Bassit is a small cape on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located about south of Mount Aqra, the highest mountain on the Mediterranean's eastern coast, and about north of Latakia, modern Syria's principal port. As Mount Aqra—the Phoenician Sapan, Biblical Zaphon, and classical Casius—marked the coastal border between the regions of Cilicia and Syria under the Persians, Ras al-Bassit functioned as a kind of border town at times. Ras al-Bassit is located, however, about south of the later Syrio-Cilician border at the line between the Syrian Gates in the Nur Mountains and Myriandrus on the coast.