Orontes
Americannoun
noun
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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
He first conquered Kush, or Ethiopia; then he led an expedition against the Khitæ, or Hittites, whom he completely routed at Kadesh, the ancient capital, a town on the River Orontes, north of Mount Lebanon.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
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