Al-Ansariyyah
Al-Anṣariyyah (or Jabal Ansāriyya, Jebel Ansariye, Djebel Ansariye, Ansariye Mountains, Ansariyah mountains Jabal an Nusayriyah, or Alaouite Mountains, Alawite Mountains (Jibal al-‘Alawiyin)  or Syrian coastal range (Silsilat al-Jibal al-Saheliyya)) is a mountain range in Syria. The mountains range runs in a north–south direction along the coast of Syria. The range is about  long. To the west of the mountain range is the plain along the coast, and on the west is the valley of the Orontes. (The Orontes runs through the Ghab Depression.) The tallest mountains in the range are in the north: there their average height is about , but in the south the average mountains are only  high. The harbour city Latakia is to the west of the mountain range's highest mountain, which is  high. Al-Ansariyyah is the only area of land in Syria which has thick forests.