Ramesses

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

19th Dynasty

• Ramesses I - founder of the 19th Dynasty
• Ramesses II ("the Great")

20th Dynasty

• 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 period

Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses is also the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Re".

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Ramesses is also the name of a Doom Metal band from England.