Halbakko

Halbakko (Arabic: حلبكو; also transliterated Helbakko) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District in Latakia Governorate.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Halbakko had a population of 292 in the 2004 census.

The village was originally founded by the residents of nearby Beit Yashout as a forested outpost on the hill above their village.

It has an elevation of 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) above sea level.

[2] By 1547, the village was recorded to have paid 300 dirhems or piasters and its inhabitants were classified as part of the Alawite Kalbiyya tribal confederation.