The Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz/; from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης, Oróntēs) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (Arabic: العاصي, romanized: al-‘Āṣī, IPA: [alˈʕaːsˤiː];...
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up Orontes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz, oʊˈrɒn-/) may refer to: Orontes River, in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey Orontes, a mythological...
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SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England. Its sister ships...
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played by Armande Béjart-Molière) A young woman who is courted by Alceste, Oronte, Acaste, and Clitandre. She is playful and flirtatious and likes to point...
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Giselda and Oronte appear. Oronte has been wounded and Giselda bitterly laments God's cruelty. The hermit appears. He tells Giselda and Oronte that their...
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Orontes IV (Old Persian: *Arvanta-) was the son of King Arsames and is recorded as ruling Armenia from inscriptions found at the historic capital of the...
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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...
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Orontes I (Old Persian: *Arvanta-; died 344 BC) was a military officer of the Achaemenid Empire and satrap of Armenia at the end of the 5th-century BC...
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with Créuse but fears Médée's reaction. Créuse is due to be married to Oronte, prince of Argos, who now arrives in Corinth with his army. However, King...
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Antioch (redirect from Antioch-on-the-Orontes)
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...
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Emerson Oronte (born January 29, 1990) is an American former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2021. Oronte turned professional with...
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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...
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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...
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Orontes II (Old Persian: *Arvanta-) was a Persian noble living in the 4th century BC. He is probably to be identified as the satrap of Armenia under Darius...
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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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servants Chrysalde, one of his friends Horace, a young man in love with Agnès Oronte, another friend of Arnolphe's, and father of Horace Enrique, Chrysalde's...
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Floridante, a leader of Oronte's armies, and Rossane is to be married to a prince of a nearby kingdom, Timante, Prince of Tyre. However, Oronte has fallen in love...
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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...
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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...
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Orontes I Sakavakyats (Armenian: Երվանդ Ա Սակավակյաց) was a legendary king of Armenia, who was the personification of the Orontid dynasty. Orontes appears...
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Heckel’s Orontes barbel or Levantine barbel (Luciobarbus pectoralis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus from the Orontes River basin...
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Old Vic, July 1972 Macduff in Macbeth, National Theatre, November 1972 Oronte in The Misanthrope, National Theatre, February 1973 Officer in The Bacchae...
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much more on two lower-class subjects who are nevertheless more capable: Oronte, an Italian, and Miss Churm, a lower-class Englishwoman. The illustrator...
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Meanwhile, Oronte discovers that Morgana has fallen in love with 'Ricciardo,' and challenges 'him' to a duel. Morgana stops the fight, but Oronte is in a...
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Al-Jazira Anti-Lebanon Mountains Euphrates Golan Heights Hauran Hermon Orontes Syrian Desert Related Syria (region) Southern Syria Fertile Crescent Levant...
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in Armenia, and states their Armenian ethnicity is uncertain. The name Orontes is the Hellenized form of a masculine name of Iranian origin, rendered...
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HMS Orontes was a 19th-century troopship of the Royal Navy, intended for carrying troops to southern Africa and the West Indies (rather than to India...
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6. Bulletin du Centre Syrien de la Recherches Archéologique, Vallé de Oronte, Palais Tabet. OCLC 717465740. Jaghnoon, Malathios (2009). Al-Maqdissi,...
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Dori's old tutor Erasto, captain of Oronte's guards and in love with "Celinda" Dirce, Oronte's old nurse Golo, Oronte's servant and buffoon Bagoa, a eunuch...
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the Seleucids, she was granted the region of Coele-Syria along the upper Orontes River. She was even given the region surrounding Jericho in Palestine,...
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