Maten_al-Sahel
Maten al-Sahel
Village in Tartus, Syria
Maten al-Sahel (Arabic: متن الساحل), is a village in Tartus Governorate, northwestern Syria
the Syrian government renamed the village Maten al-Sahel, "Coast". This village is located 280 km north-west of Damascus, near the Mediterranean coast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Maten al-Sahel had a population of 2,101 in the 2004 census.[1] The majority of the population are members of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community, with an Alawite Muslim minority.[2]