%20study.pdf UNEP, Ras Al-Bassit / Oum Al-Toyour Protected Area - Socio economic Analysis[daud lenkje] «The French excavations 1971 to 1984 revealed a small settlement with citadel founded as an outpost of Ugarit during the Late bronsealderen, surviving into the jarnalderen. It had strong links with Fønikia and Kypros and received a Greek colony in the seventh century B.C. but was destroyed during the Persian period (539-331 B.C.). Alexander passed this way in 333 B.C. (Battle of Issus took place not far north of near modern-day Alexandretta) and it became a Seleucid settlement after 313 B.C. under the name of Posideion with a fortress on its small acropolis.»
