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.

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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)

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Orontes

On the opposite bank of the Orontes River, in the old town once popular with tourists, mosques and churches lie ruined.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

Antioch, built in 300 B.C. by a general of Alexander the Great in the Orontes River valley, was one of the biggest cities of the Greco-Roman world, rivaling Alexandria and Constantinople.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

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

“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

So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia," a port at the mouth of the river Orontes, a little to the west of Antioch; "and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary