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Rameses

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Rameses or Ramesses: see Ramses Ramses I, d. c.1314 B.C., succeeded Horemheb , the true founder of the XIX dynasty. He died after only one year as king.

His son was Seti I , whose son in turn was

Ramses II, d. 1225 B.C. Ramses was not the heir to the throne but usurped it from his brother.
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. For Rameses in the Bible, see Raamses Raamses (rāăm`sēz), in the Bible, city of the eastern delta of Egypt, built by Hebrew slave labor. It was rebuilt by Ramses II.
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Ramses, Rameses
any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt, who ruled from ?1315 to ?1090 bc


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Why try to call up the traditions of vanished Egyptian grandeur; why try to fancy Egypt following dead Rameses to his tomb in the Pyramid, or the long multitude of Israel departing over the desert yonder?
 
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