Orontes

Orontes () 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 RMS Orontes, a steam ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, launched in 1902, scrapped in 1925. Troopship in First World War. SS Orontes, a passenger ship of the Orient Line, launched 1929, scrapped 1969. Troopship from 1940 until 1947 HMS Orontes, several ships of the Royal Navy

==See also== Yervand