The Coastal Mountain Range (Arabic: سلسلة الجبال الساحلية, Silsilat al-Jibāl as-Sāḥilīyah) also called Jabal al-Ansariya, Jabal an-Nusayria or Jabal al-`Alawīyin (Ansari, Nusayri or Alawi Mountains) is a mountain range in northwestern Syria running north–south, parallel to the coastal plain.

[1] The mountains have an average width of 32 kilometres (20 mi), and their average peak elevation is just over 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) with the highest peak, Nabi Yunis, reaching 1,562 metres (5,125 ft), east of Latakia.

[4] The Greek: Μπάργκυλος, romanized: Bargylus) had its roots in the name of an ancient city-kingdom called Barga most probably located in the vicinity of the mountains;[5] it was a city of the Eblaite Empire in the third millennium BC,[6] and then a vassal kingdom of the Hittites,[7] who named the mountain range after Barga.

The Orontes River flows north alongside the range on its eastern verge in the Ghab valley, a 64 kilometres (40 mi) longitudinal trench,[10] and then around the northern edge of the range to flow into the Mediterranean.

[1] Between 1920 and 1936, the mountains formed parts of the eastern border of the Alawite State within the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.