Ramesses
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Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses" pronounced /ˈræmsiːz/ or "Rameses" /ˈræməsiːz/) 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 Ra".
- 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
Other:
- Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses, the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris, renamed after the Ramesses pharaohs
- The fictional "Ramses XIII," protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
- Ramesses, the eponimous protagonist's father in "Thamos, König in Ägypten" ("Thamos, King of Egypt", or "King Thamos", in English), a play by Tobias Philipp, for which Mozart wrote incidental music
- Ramesses (band), a Sludge/Doom Metal band in England, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
- Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
- Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice
- Rameses, the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ramses, a summon creature in the Gameboy Advance game Golden Sun
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