Belus ( Latin) or Belos ( grc-gre, Βῆλος, link=no, ''Bē̂los'') was the indifferent classical rendering of the

Semitic Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta. Semitic may also refer to: Religions * Abrahamic religions ** ...

words ''bēlu'' and ''baʿal'' ("lord") as a theonym,

personal name A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...

, and royal title. Belus may refer to:

In myth and legend

* Belus (Assyrian), the Babylonian Marduk as a legendary king of Assyria * Belus (Babylonian) or Zeus Belos, alternate name of the Babylonian god Marduk * Belus (Egyptian), the Canaanite Baʿal as a legendary king of Egypt * Belus (Lydian), a legendary ancestor of Lydia's Heraclid dynasty *

Belus (Tyre) Belus was a legendary king of Tyre in Virgil's ''Aeneid'' and other Latin works. He was said to have been the father of Dido of Carthage, Pygmalion of Tyre, and Anna.Virgil. ''Aeneid'' Book 1, Line 729. The historical father of these figures was th ...

, a legendary king of Tyre in Virgil's ''Aeneid'' * Baal, a title meaning "lord" in Semitic languages spoken during antiquity; applied to gods *

Bel (god) Bêl (; from akk, bēlu) is a title signifying "lord" or "master" applied to various gods in the Mesopotamian religion of Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia. The feminine form is ''Bêlit'' ('Lady, Mistress') in Akkadian. ''Bel'' is represented i ...

, in Mesopotamian mythology

Places

Belus River Na'aman River, ( he, נחל נעמן, Nahal Na'aman; ar, نهر النعامين, Nahr Na'mein), is a stream in northwestern Israel. To the ancient writers Pliny, Tacitus and Josephus it was known as the Belus or Belos River of Phoenicia. The Na ...

, a river in Israel *

Bélus Bélus (; oc-gascon, Belús) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Landes department The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Landes department o ...

, a town in the Landes department of France

Other uses

Beloš Beloš ( sr-cyr, Белош; hu, Belos or ''Belus''; el, Βελούσης fl. 1141–1163), was a Serbian prince and Hungarian palatine who served as the regent of Hungary from 1141 until 1146, alongside his sister Helena, mother of the infan ...

or Beluš, Regent of Hungary 1141–1146, Ban of Croatia 1142–1158, Grand Prince of Serbia 1162 * ''Belus'' (genus), a genus of weevils * ''Belus'' (album), an album by Burzum * , several ships the Swedish Navy * Emperor Belos, primary antagonist of the 2020 American animated show ''The Owl House''