Qadesh

Kadesh (Qadesh-on-the-Orontes, also known as Qadesh, Qanta. Kinza, or Kidsa; Hittite: Kadeš) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes River. It is surmised by Kenneth Kitchen to be the ruins at Tell Nebi Mend, about southwest of Homs near al-Qusayr and adjacent to the modern-day village of Tell al-Nabi Mando, in what is now western Syria. The text of the inscriptions at the Battle of Kadesh locates the ancient settlement as being near Tunip in the land of the Amurru. Since Tunip is now also believed to have been located on the Orontes (at Tell ‘Acharneh near Tell Salhab in Syria), this is in accord with Kitchen’s identification.