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Orontes

American  
[aw-ron-teez, oh-ron-] / ɔˈrɒn tiz, oʊˈrɒn- /

noun

  1. a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.


Orontes British  
/ ɒˈrɒntiːz /

noun

  1. Arabic name: `Asi.  a river in SW Asia, rising in Lebanon and flowing north through Syria into Turkey, where it turns west to the Mediterranean. Length: 571 km (355 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Tulin Kuseyri, a 62-year-old Turkish woman, stood by the Orontes River in Antakya on Thursday, watching searchers remove a body from an apartment building.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2023

Most likely, he will settle in a town on the Orontes River in Idlib province where rebels are in control.

From Seattle Times Dec. 17, 2016

“We just wanted to get out,” one scraggly rebel survivor, Wassim, 23, told me at the banquet hall on the Orontes where they were gathered, declining to give his full name for security reasons.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2016

We crossed into Syria the next day, and it took two more to reach our filming destination: the Orontes River valley in Idlib province.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2013

The importance of the place arises from its command of the great north road from Egypt, Palestine and Damascus by the Orontes valley.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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