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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:
- 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 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".
Ramesses is also the name of a Doom Metal band from England. pl:Ramzes