'Head/Top of a watering source',[1][2] Syriac: ܪܺܫܳܐ ܡܰܣܩܳܐ[3][4]) is a village located in the Koura District, in the North Governorate of Lebanon.

[5] This village is located in the Koura district on the hills overlooking the Mediterranean to the south of Tripoli.

Northern Ras Maska or Ras Masqa El Chmeliyeh (Arabic: رأس مسقى الشمالية), is the lowest part of the village, located at 60 meters (200 ft) above sea level.

It belonged to the Nahiyat Koura / Anfeh and was inhabited by 14 male adults (more than 15 years old), 80% of them being married.

[10] If we adopt the estimation of the Historians[11]), the number of inhabitants of Ras Maska in 1519 would have been of 70 persons.