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Kadesh (also Qadesh) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes River. It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age, and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittite and Egyptian empires in the 13th century BC. ==Name and location == The name is from the West Semitic (Canaanite) root Q-D-Š "holy". It is rendered ''Qdšw'' in Egyptian and ''Kadeš'' in Hittite. Akkadian spelling variants include ''Kinza, Kidiši, Kidša, Gizza''.〔A. B. Lloyd, ''Herodotus'', 1993, (p. 162 ).〕 Kadesh is identified with the ruins at Tell Nebi Mend,〔Kitchen, K.A, "Ramesside Inscriptions", Volume 2, Blackwell Publishing Limited, 1996, pp. 16–17〕 about southwest of Homs near al-Qusayr and adjacent to the modern-day Syrian village of Tell al-Nabi Mando. The text of the inscriptions at the Battle of Kadesh locates Kadesh as being near Tunip in the land of the Amurru, itself assumed to have been near the Orontes River (perhaps at Tell Salhab). Some scholars also identify Kadesh with the city of ''Kadytis'' mentioned by Herodotus (2.159, an alternative identification for ''Kadytis'' being Gaza.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kadesh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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