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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