Tjeker

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The Tjekker were one of the Sea Peoples who raided Egypt and the Levant during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE. They raided Egypt repeatedly before settling in northern Canaan.

The Tjekker were of uncertain origin, but they may have been connected to the Teucri, a tribe described by Homer and other ancient sources as inhabiting northwest Anatolia around Troy.

They conquered the city-state of Dor, on the coast near modern Haifa, and turned it into a Tjekker kingdom. They are one of the few of the Sea Peoples for whom a ruler's name is recorded - in the papyrus account of Wenamun, an Egyptian priest, the ruler of Dor is given as "Beder".

In the early 900s BCE, Dor fell to the Israelites. No mention of the Tjekker is made after that date.