Arados Island

Aradus- Arados was Syrio-Phoenician town situated on an island opposite Tartus.  The Phoenician city is mentioned ias "Irtu" in the Annals of Thutmose III at the Karnak Temple. The Biblical "Arvad" is noted as the forefather of the "Arvadites", a Canaanite people¹. According to  Amarna letters town was in league with the Amorites in their attacks on the Egyptian possessions in Syria².

See:

1. L. B. Paton, The Early History of Syria and Palestine, New York 1901, 45.
2.  William Smith: A’RADUS. In: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 1854

References

1. ↑Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of Heth; also of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
2. ↑V. Letters from Asiatic Vassals, 44