Orontes River

Orontes River
   The chief river of Syria, used or crossed by numerous ancient armies, merchants, and travelers, including many from Mesopotamia. The Orontes (or Axius) rises in the Bekaa Valley, in what is now Lebanon, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea slightly northwest of the site of the ancient city of Antioch. Though not navigable by large ships, the river was used for travel by people in small boats and rafts. A number of ancient battles were fought along the banks of the Orontes; the most famous were Kadesh (ca. 1274 b.c.), fought between the Hittites and the Egyptians, and Karkar (ca. 853 b.c.), in which Assyria's King Shal-maneser III opposed an alliance of kings from Syria-Palestine.

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