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Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz,oʊˈrɒn-/) may refer to:
Orontes River, in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Orontes, a mythological Indian leader whom the river is supposedly named after, as told in book 17 of the Greek epic poem Dionysiaca
Orontes, a character mentioned in The Aeneid who is killed when his ship is swallowed by a whirlpool
various members of the Armenian Orontid dynasty (their name, also rendered as Orontas, Orondes, Aroandes, is the Hellenized form of an Iranian masculine name: Avestan: auruuant sometimes shortened to auruuat, Persian arvand, meaning "Of greatness, mighty"):
Orontes I Sakavakyats
Orontes I or Yervand I
Orontes II or Yervand II
Orontes III or Yervand III
Orontes IV or yervand IV
Rawandiz, a city in Iraq whose name is derived from a name which was spelled "Orontes" in Hellenic sources
The Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz/; from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης, Oróntēs) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (Arabic: العاصي, romanized: al-‘Āṣī, IPA: [alˈʕaːsˤiː];...
up Orontes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz, oʊˈrɒn-/) may refer to: Orontes River, in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey Orontes, a mythological...
forcing Orontes to make peace with Evagoras in 380 BC. Artaxerxes II did not deem the conclusion of the war satisfactory, and as a result Orontes fell into...
Antioch on the Orontes (/ˈænti.ɒk/; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) was a Hellenistic...
Orontes III (Old Persian: *Arvanta-) was King of Armenia. In his reign he struggled for control of the Kingdom of Sophene with king Antiochus II Theos...
Oronsay, and Otranto (II). Orontes was the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class...
have borne the name HMS Orontes: HMS Orontes (1813) was a 36-gun fifth rate, built as HMS Brilliant but renamed HMS Orontes in 1812 and launched in 1813...
RMS Orontes was a steam ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company that was launched in 1902 and scrapped in 1925. Orontes was a troop ship in...
instigated a revolt against Orontes, headed by Artaxias I. Aramaic inscriptions found at Armavir state that King Orontes IV died at the hands of his own...
of Armenia by Alexander. Orontes dying at Gaugamela has been contested; Diodorus and Polyaenus mention a man named Orontes, who was a Satrap of Armenia...
Armenia following Orontes, from 344 to 336 BC. An Armenian contingent was present at the Battle of Gaugamela under the command of Orontes and a certain Mithraustes...
Orontes I Sakavakyats was a legendary king of Armenia, who was the personification of the Orontid dynasty. Orontes appears in both in the Cyropaedia of...
The Orontes himri (Carasobarbus chantrei) is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Syria and Turkey. Its natural habitats...
The Battle of the Orontes was fought on 15 September 994 between the Byzantines and their Hamdanid allies under Michael Bourtzes against the forces of...
same time channels were built to widen the Orontes and let it pass neatly through the city centre. The Orontes is joined in Antakya by the Hacı Kürüş stream...
Acanthobrama centisquama, also known as the long-spine bream or Orontes bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is known from...
The Antakya minnow or Orontes golden barb, (Garra caudomaculata) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra. There is some confusion regarding...
the Orontes sportive loach, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Oxynoemacheilus. This species is found in the headwaters of the Orontes River...
Yervand II), son of Orontes I, ruler of the Satrapy of Armenia Orontes III (native Armenian name Yervand III), King of Armenia Orontes IV (native Armenian...
The Orontes River offensive was a military operation launched by the Syrian Arab Army against rebels during the Syrian Civil War on the administrative...
The Orontes minnow (Pseudophoxinus kervillei) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria...
Alburnus orontis, also known as the Orontes bleak or Orontes spotted bleak, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, that can be found...
Alcides orontes is a moth of the family Uraniidae. It is known from the Maluku Islands, including Seram Island and Ambon Island. Kwon, Young Woo; Park...
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