Kadesh

Kadesh, or Qadesh, was an ancient city of the on or near the headwaters or a ford of the . It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Ari-Teshub”, “Cadech”, “Etakkama”, “Kinza”, “Laodicea ad Libanum”, “Laodiceia Cabiosa”, “Laodiceia do Líbano”, “Laodiceia do Orontes”, “Laodiceia Scabiosa”, “Laudicea”, “Qaddesh”, “Qades”, “Qadesch”, “Qidshu”, “Quadesch”, “Quidsa”, “Suttarna”, and “Tell Nebi Mend”

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Kadesh

Latitude
34.5573° or 34° 33′ 26″ north
Longitude
36.5192° or 36° 31′ 9″ east
Elevation
513 metres (1,683 feet)
Open location code
8G6RHG49+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 183941422
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­mound
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
168753
Wiki­data ID
Q690035
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Kadesh” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λαοδίκεια”
  • Arabic: “تل النبي مندو”
  • Arabic: “قادش”
  • Arabic: “كدش”
  • Armenian: “Կադեշ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kadeş”
  • Basque: “Kadesh”
  • Belarusian: “Кадзеш”
  • Belarusian: “Кадэш”
  • Bengali: “কাদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кадеш”
  • Burmese: “ကာဒေ့ရှ်”
  • Catalan: “Cadeix”
  • Cebuano: “Kadesh”
  • Chinese: “卡迭石”
  • Czech: “Kadeš”
  • Dutch: “Kadesh”
  • Dutch: “Kadesj”
  • Finnish: “Kadeš”
  • Finnish: “Kadesh”
  • French: “Kedech”
  • French: “Qadech”
  • French: “Qadesh”
  • Galician: “Qadesh”
  • Georgian: “კადეში”
  • German: “Kadesch”
  • Greek: “Λαοδίκεια η κατά Λίβανον”
  • Hebrew: “קדש”
  • Hindi: “कादेश”
  • Hungarian: “Kádes”
  • Indonesian: “Kadesh”
  • Irish: “Cáidéis”
  • Italian: “Qadeš”
  • Japanese: “カデシュ”
  • Javanese: “Kadesh”
  • Kashmiri: “کادیش”
  • Korean: “카데시”
  • Latin: “Laodicea”
  • Lithuanian: “Kadešas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kadesj”
  • Norwegian: “Kadesj”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਦੈਸ਼”
  • Persian: “کادش”
  • Polish: “Kadesz nad Orontesem”
  • Portuguese: “Cades”
  • Portuguese: “Kadesh”
  • Romanian: “Kadesh (Siria)”
  • Romanian: “Kadesh”
  • Russian: “Кадеш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kadeš”
  • Slovak: “Kadeš”
  • Slovenian: “Kadeš”
  • Spanish: “Kadesh”
  • Spanish: “Qadesh”
  • Swedish: “Kadesh”
  • Swiss German: “Kadesch”
  • Tamil: “காதேஷ்”
  • Turkish: “Kadeş”
  • Ukrainian: “Кадеш”
  • Urdu: “قادش”

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