Orontes

Orontes (/ɔːˈrɒntiːz, oʊˈrɒn-/) may refer to:

• Orontes River, in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
  • Orontes, a mythological Indian leader whom the river is supposedly named after, as told in book 17 of the Greek epic poem Dionysiaca
• Orontes, a character mentioned in The Aeneid who is killed when his ship is swallowed by a whirlpool
• various members of the Armenian Orontid dynasty (their name, also rendered as Orontas, Orondes, Aroandes, is the Hellenized form of an Iranian masculine name: Avestan: auruuant sometimes shortened to auruuat, Persian arvand, meaning "Of greatness, mighty"):
  • Orontes I Sakavakyats
  • Orontes I or Yervand I
  • Orontes II or Yervand II
  • Orontes III or Yervand III
  • Orontes IV or yervand IV
• Rawandiz, a city in Iraq whose name is derived from a name which was spelled "Orontes" in Hellenic sources
• SS Orontes, a passenger ship of the Orient Line
• HMS Orontes, several ships of the Royal Navy

See also

• Yervand