Homs Gap
For hundreds of years , traders and invaders have found the Homs Gap an important route from the coast to the country's interior and to other parts of Asia because it "provides the easiest access between the Mediterranean coast and the Syrian interior . " The gap is also the only large crossing open year-round across the mountain ranges . 
<triplet> Mediterranean <subj> Syria <obj> basin country <triplet> Syria <subj> Mediterranean <obj> located in or next to body of water