Ugarit is an ancient port city on the eastern Mediterranean at the Ras Shamra headland near Latakia and Minet el-Beidain northern Syria.

The site is some 11 kilometers (7 mi) north of Latakia (Latin Laodicea ad Mare) and approximately 80 kilometers (50 mi) east of Cyprus.

Ugarit sends tribute to Egypt and maintains trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus (then called Alashiya), documented in the archives recovered from the site and corroborated by Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery found there.

The polity is at its height from ca.

1450 BCE until 1200 BCE.