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Ramesses

Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses" or "Rameses") is the name in English given to a large number of Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period:

19th Dynasty

• Ramses I
• Ramses II ("The Great")

20th Dynasty

• Ramses III
• Ramses IV
• Ramses V
• Ramses VI
• Ramses VII
• Ramses VIII
• Ramses IX
• Ramses X
• Ramses XI

The name means "Born of the sun-god Re".

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