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Principal port of Syria
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latakia
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Latakia ; Lattakia or Latakiyah ( Syrian pronunciation: ), is the principal port city of Syria , as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate . Historically, it has also been known as Lāŏdĭcḗa or Lāŏdĭcḗa ad Mắre . In addition to serving as a port, ...
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n. A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Latakia \Lat`a*ki"a\, n. [Turk.] A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.
Usage examples of latakia.
Tobacconist Shop, trying to find a smokeable blend in these days before humidification and latakia, and he was slowly becoming aware of the conversation going on next to him.
The perfume of stephanotis and tea-roses, blended faintly with the all-pervading odour of latakia and Turkish attar.
Orcrist had brought him a can of good Turkish tobacco, thickly laced with spicy black latakia, and he was beginning to like the stuff.
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 SOIREE that my store of Latakia was exhausted.
I could invent thingsthe light bulb, the internal combustion engine, latakia tobacco, flush toilets .
I said no more for a time, sitting wiping the perspiration from my forehead and watching my friend load his cracked briar with the broadcut Latakia mixture.
The charred briar was produced and stuffed with that broad cut Latakia mixture of which Nayland Smith consumed close upon a pound a week.
Scottish tweed and Spanish leather, he moved in an aura of latakia tobacco and brandished a shooting stick for which he evidenced no actual physical need.
Assad hailed from the village of Qardaha, near the Syrian seaport of Latakia, and he and his main allies were not Sunni Muslims but Alawites.
A little Latakia, some prime Virginia, and a little secret I happen to know about.
I am paying sixty per cent, at Beiroot, Tripoli, Latakia, and every accursed town of the coast at this moment.
There is a good cargo of parts from stolen cars to be picked up in Malta for Naples, a delivery of girls to our agent in Latakia, and a quantity of base morphine to be collected by transfer off Izmir.
The ports of Syria and Alexandria were now strictly blockaded, and in a short time after, Tripoli, Tortosa, and Latakia were evacuated by their Egyptian garrisons, St.
According to the application form, she would wish to berth in Valencia between June 16 and June 20, take the shipment on board, and proceed straight to Latakia on the coast of Syria, where the consignment would be handed over to the Iraqis for trucking to Baghdad.
It was explained that Dupree and Vlaminck were company employees who had missed their ship in Brindisi and were being dropped off at Malta on the way to Latakia.