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	Saudi Aramco World : A River Called Rebel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Since the Orontes flows through deep gorges over much of its course, the crudely built wheels, said to be of Persian origin, used to be a characteristic sight along the whole river; the need for them is sometimes cited as another explanation of the river's "rebel" name.
		In Antioch the Orontes, then 120 feet wide, parted to enclose a pear-shaped island that housed the Roman administrators and flowed on past the North Gate, a massive affair of Egyptian granite offering a dazzling glimpse of the city that awed even the Romans: a main street two miles long and lined with double porticoes.
		The Orontes was at once the route by which new religions spread and the place where old, heretical minorities found a haven.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197303/a.river.called.rebel.htm (2944 words)

	Orontes River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Orontes or ‘Asi is a river of Lebanon and Syria.
		On the Orontes was fought the Battle of Kadesh during the reign of Ramesses II (1304 – 1237 BC).
		For the Crusaders in the 12th century, the Orontes River became the permanent boundary between the Principality of Antioch and that of Aleppo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orontes_River (408 words)

	Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Located on the eastern side (left bank) of the Orontes River about 20 miles from the sea and its port, Seleucia of Pieria (Suedia), it was founded as a Greek city near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who made it the capital of his empire in Syria.
		Antioch was destined to rival Alexandria in Egypt as the chief city of the nearer East and to be the cradle of gentile Christianity.
		In the Orontes, north of the city, lay a large island, and on this Seleucus II Callinicus began a third walled "city," which was finished by Antiochus III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antioch (2545 words)

	Iranica.com - ORONTES
		Orontes is very often mentioned in connection with things Persian between 401 and 349 B.C.E.; thus he faced the Ten Thousand Greeks at their withdrawal across Armenia to the Black Sea (Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.8f.; 2.5.40; 3.4.13), especially at the river Centrites, which formed the frontier between the Carduchians and the Armenians (ibid.
		After having wrongfully accused the commander of the navy, his fellow-satrap Tiribazus, who then was taken prisoner and sent to the royal court but was finally acquitted and reinstalled, Orontes had made peace in a form which was advantageous for Euagoras and therefore was not accepted by the king (Diodorus 15.8.3–9.2; 10.2–11.1; Polyaenus 7.14.1).
		In later years (362/1 B.C.E.) this same Orontes was "satrap of Mysia" (rather, the subordinate governor of some coastal province) and the leader of the revolting satraps of Asia Minor (Diodorus 15.90.3; 91.1; Pompeius Trogus, prolog.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Orontes.html (752 words)

	Orontes - Encyclopedia.com
		Finally, in 363 Orontes, former satrap of Armenia, demoted to local governor of Mysia...
		Orontes has waded out into the water to meet the...
		Four jets, in two consecutive sorties, dropped a number of missiles on an area on the Orontes River, 3 km east of the city of Hermel in the eastern Bekaa Valley and close to the Syrian-Lebanese border.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Orontes.html (1101 words)

	ORONTES : River god of Syria in West Asia ; Greek mythology
		ORONTES was a River-God of Syria, in Western Asia.
		The River Orontes flowed into the Meditteranean Sea near the city of Antiokhos (Antioch).
		"Aforetime all the plain by the foot of Emblonos [in Syria] was flooded; since evermore in great volume rushed Orontes in his eagerness, forgetting the sea and burning with desire of the dark-eyed Nymphe, the daughter of Okeanos.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosOrontes.html (297 words)

	c. surface investigations: Orontes-Survey
		Objectives of the Middle Orontes Survey are the documentation of archaeological sites in the region between ar-Rastan and QalÂ´at Shaizar, Western Syria, and the determination of settlement patterns between the Neolithic and the Ottoman periods.
		This region, formed by the valleys of the River Jordan, the BeqaÂ´a and the Orontes, is seen as one of the core areas of the transition from mobile hunter-gatherers to settled farmers.
		The handaxes indicate that the Orontes region is one of the main areas used by early settlers in Syria.
	www.dainst.org /index_3246_en.html (1510 words)

	Orontes River - Aassi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The damming of the Orontes River in Syria provides irrigation water for the rich river valley.
		Charakteristic view on the valley of the river Orontes (Nahr aĺ Asi) from the side of intlet portal Aen Zarka on the slopes of mountains ridge Ante Lebanon
		The Orontes River (Al Assi) was of great importance to the growth and development of Hama through history.
	www.syrialive.net /Tourism/MajorSites/aassi/aassi.htm (396 words)

	ANTIOCH - LoveToKnow Article on ANTIOCH
		Founded of a Greek city in 300 B.C. by Seleucus Nicator, as soon as he bi)I), it was destined to rival Alexandria in J~gypt as the chief y of the nearer East, and to be the cradle of gentile Christianity.
		te geographical character of the district north and north-east of ~eibow of Orontes makes it the natural centre of Syria, so long that country is held by a western power; and only Asiatic, d especially Arab, dynasties have neglected it for the oasis of tmascus.
		In the Orontes, rth of the city, lay a large island, and on this Seleucus II.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANTIOCH.htm (1635 words)

	Hamah City
		Hama is a river town, built on the banks of the Orontes.
		Following the Orontes upstream, from the bridge with the mill and the Mouhammadiya, keeping to the streets near the river we come to the other norias and the main buildings of the city.
		On the bend of the river, as it winds round the north of the citadel hill, a bridge leads across to a small mosque; beside it stands a short squat minaret, built of large blocks of white stone underlined by narrow bands of fl.
	www.geocities.com /paris/library/2061/hamah.htm (946 words)

	ORONTES - LoveToKnow Article on ORONTES
		The Orontes rises in the great springs of Labweh on the east side of the Bukaa, or inter-Lebanon district, very near the fountains of the southward-flowing Litani, and it runs due north, parallel with the coast, falling 2000 ft. through a rocky gorge.
		Two large tributaries from the N., the Afrin and Kara Su, here reach it through the former Lake of Antioch, which is now drained through an artificial channel (Nahr al-Kowsit).
		Passing N. of the modern Antakia (Antioch) the Orontes plunges S.W. into a gorge (compared by the ancients to Tempe), and falls 150 ft. in 10 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORONTES.htm (207 words)

	The Ships - Orontes
		Orontes was the last clipper addition to the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line fleet, having been launched in 1881 at the Walter Hood shipyard in Aberdeen.
		An iron ship of 1318 tons, the Orontes was fairly sluggish compared to her stable mates Samuel Plimsoll and Thermopylae.
		She lead a fairly ordinary "plodding" life with no particular adventures, plying the Australian trade until she was run into and sunk on 23rd October 1903 by the British tugboat Oceana, just off Ostend.
	home.pacific.net.au /~hannahhome/ships/orontes.html (360 words)

	Antioch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Here the Orontes breaks through the mountains, and Antioch was placed at a bend of the river, 16.5 miles from the Mediterranean, partly on an island, partly on the levee which forms the left bank, and partly on the steep and craggy ascent of Mount Silpius, which rose abruptly on the south.
		It grew soon to large proportions; new quarters or suburbs were added to it, so that ultimately it consisted of four towns enclosed by as many distinct walls and by a common rampart, which with the citadel reached to the summit of Mount Silpius.
		The city was founded near the mouth of the Orontes, not far from Mount Silpius (Casius), at a location admirably suited to the control of the Syrian Near East.
	www.ancientroute.com /cities/antioch.htm (3192 words)

	Battle of Kadesh: The Battle of Kadesh (Qadesh), Part II
		While crossing the River Orontes (Arnath) to begin the approach to the city from the south, two Bedouin tribesmen, secretly in the employ of the Hittite king, led what appears to have been a gullible Ramesses the Great into believing that the Hittite army was
		As the Army of Re crossed the Orontes River, they were set upon by Hittite chariotry, who emerged from the tree line to the right of the column about three quarters of a mile distant.
		Nevertheless, the Hittite forces were sent scurrying back across the Orontes river and we are told that many nobles and men of importance within the Hittite confederation lay dead on the battle field, or were swept away by the river in their panicked retreat.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/kadesh.htm (4184 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orontes pushed Ciaran off the horse; he half-fell into the arms of one of the slaves.
		Orontes unfastened the clasp that held the blanket in which Ciaran was wrapped, tossed the cloth at a slave and gave Ciaran a shove.
		Orontes returned, dropped the whip he carried to the floor and tied Ciaran's arms to the pole.
	otherworldfantasies.com /gabriele2/ciaran.html (3972 words)

	Hamath
		The principal city of upper Syria, was situated in the valley of the Orontes, which it commanded from the low screen of hills, which forms the water-shed between the source of the Orontes and Antioch.
		Hamah is beautifully situated on the Orontes, 32 miles north of Emesa, and 36 south of the ruins of Assamea.
		The kingdom of Hamath comprehended the great plain lying on both banks of the Orontes from the fountain near Riblah to Assamea on the north, and from Lebanon on the west to the desert on the east.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/hamath.htm (955 words)

	Physical Atlas of Europe: general hydrography - Orontes
		Physical Atlas of Europe: general hydrography - Orontes
		Click on the name of a river and it will be put shown in blue on the map of Europe.
		The local name is given when it differs from the English one.
	www.euratlas.com /Atlasphys/Orontes.htm (40 words)

	Homs
		Other are sure it is a basaltic dike thrown across the Orontes during one of the many eruptions of the volcanos to the west.
		The Orontes was forded at Homs, before the river built steep walls.
		From Homs, the Orontes is forced to flow to the east in a long, broad arc, to avoid limestone outcrops, and basaltic flows.
	www.ancientroute.com /cities/homs.htm (942 words)

	Orontes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orontes was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., of Glasgow, for the Orient Line.
		Laid up in the Thames in 1921, she was sold for conversion into an exhibition ship in March 1922, and was renamed British Trade.
		Repossessed by Orient Line in August 1922, she was renamed Orontes.
	www.greatships.net /orontes.html (121 words)

	Orontes - Wikipedia
		Orontes (en árabe Nahr al-'Asi), río de Asia occidental, situado en la región del Próximo Oriente.
		Nace en la zona libanesa de las montañas del Antilíbano, en la zona oriental del valle del Bekaa, y se dirige de sur a norte a través del oeste de Siria hasta alcanzar Turquía, donde, tras girar hacia el Oeste, desemboca en el Mar Mediterráneo al norte de Antioquía.
		Tradicionalmente el río Orontes (denominado también Draco, Typhon o Axius) es considerado como el límite septentrional de Canaán y del área de influencia fenicia.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orontes (250 words)

	News
		His lecture was the summary of his doctoral dissertation defended at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography in the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
		Armenians continued to live in the area in the Byzantine era, and the Armenian population of the area actually increased during the period of Arab domination.
		Although the Armenians of the Orontes River Middle Valley had adopted Arabic as their mother tongue by the mid-nineteenth century, they still used a number of Armenian words in their vocabulary and children''s play songs.
	www.haigazian.edu.lb /News.jsp?id=37 (1193 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Orontes
		Orontes (Arabic ‘Asi; Turkish Asi), river, southwestern Asia, forming part of the border between Lebanon and Syria and between Syria and Turkey.
		Ḩamāh, city in west central Syria, on the Orontes River.
		The principal products of the city and the surrounding region are grain and wool, silk, and...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Orontes.html (102 words)

	Crusader assault on Antioch
		The Bridge Gate, protected by the Orontes, was left without a blockading force.
		This gate controlled the road to the port of St Symeon, and the struggle to control the area in front of it was to form a crucial part of the siege.
		These were attacks were so troublesome that the crusaders built a fort, which they named Malregard, on a hill to the east of Bohemond's camp to protect this flank of the army.
	www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk /firstcrusade/Events/Sieges/antioch-siege1.htm (1873 words)

	Encyclopedia: Orontes River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Apamea is located on the right bank of the Orontes River, about 55 km to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley.
		The Hittite (red) and Egypt (green) spheres of influence overlapped at Kadesh The Battle of Kadesh (also spelled Qadesh) took place between Egypt and the Hittite forces of Muwatallis, on the Orontes River, during the reign of Ramesses II (1304 – 1237 BC).
		Ramesses II, Abu Simbel Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses) was an Egyptian pharaoh.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Orontes-River (1281 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Conditions ripened for Orontes dam construction
		With four dams across the Orontes, Syria uses the river extensively for irrigation and drinking purposes.
		The Orontes River, which is 610 kilometers long, flows for only 16 kilometers in Lebanon before running through Syria and spilling into the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey.
		Its course on Lebanese soil was previously thought to be 35 kilometers long until a 1997 supplementary bilateral pact excluded the Labweh Spring from the river’s total water length and count.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0205/02051113DS.asp (1897 words)

	Battle of Kadesh: The Battle of Kadesh (Qadesh), Part II
		If indeed the Egyptian Army left their camp and crossed the Orontes River on the ninth day, then it must have been somewhat late that day that the Hittite scouts were discovered, and even later by the time they were handed over to Ramesses after being tortured.
		As the Army of Re crossed the Orontes River, they were set upon by Hittite chariotry, who emerged from the tree line to the right of the column about three quarters of a mile distant.
		Nevertheless, the Hittite forces were sent scurrying back across the Orontes river and we are told that many nobles and men of importance within the Hittite confederation lay dead on the battle field, or were swept away by the river in their panicked retreat.
	touregypt.net /featurestories/kadesh.htm (4184 words)

	Hama, Syria (Homs Online - Homsonline.com)
		Hama is situated 47 Km north of Homs and 140 km south of Aleppo.
		This beautiful city use the Orontes River as its cooling system and the Orontes valley for greenery.
		is the capital of Hama governorate, W central Syria, on the Orontes River.
	www.homsonline.com /Citeis/Hama.htm (771 words)

	Río De Orontes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		El Orontes se levanta en los grandes resortes de Labweh en el lado del este del valle de Bekaa, muy cerca de las fuentes del Litani southward-que fluye, y funciona derecho del norte, paralelo a la costa, cayendo 2000 pies a través de un gorge rocoso.
		Este valle central de Orontes termina en la barrera rocosa del al-Hadid-Hadid de Jisr, donde el río se divierte al oeste, y el llano de Antioch se abre.
		Pasar norte del Antakia moderno (Antioch) el Orontes hunde el sudoeste en un gorge (comparado por los ancients a Tempe), y las caídas 150 pies en 10 millas al apenas sur del mar del poco puerto de Suedia (anc.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/r%ed/R%EDo%20De%20Orontes.htm (315 words)

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