AMASIS I

Specialty Definition: Amasis I

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Amasis I, an Egyptian Pharaoh and the founder of the XVIIIth dynasty, is famous for his successful wars against the Hyksos princes who still ruled in the north-east of the Nile Delta.

See the history of Egypt.

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