Latakia n. : A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

Example:
What is the Arabic dialect of Antioch like? Is it like Aleppo's, Latakia's, or what?

Taxonomy
Latakia, city, Syria, Street, population, Latakia Governorate, Latakia Syria, Battle of Latakia, Antioch, Laodicea ad Mare, festival, Damascus, capital, harbor, Beirut, Aleppo, tobacco, earthquakes.

Defination from the web:
Latakia was subsequently ruled by the Romans, then the Ummayads and Abbasids in the 8th–10th centuries. ... Following World War I, Latakia was assigned to the French mandate of Syria, in which it served as the capital of the autonomous territory of the Alawites. ...