Ramesses
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Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses," pronounced Template:IPA or "Rameses," Template:IPA) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Re".
- Ramesses I: founder of the 19th Dynasty
- Ramesses II ("the Great")
- Ramesses III: adversary of the Sea Peoples
- Ramesses IV
- Ramesses V
- Ramesses VI
- Ramesses VII
- Ramesses VIII
- Ramesses IX
- Ramesses X
- Ramesses XI: last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom
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