Ramesses
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1. Ramesses - Noun
2. Ramesses - Proper noun
Meaning
any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC
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1259 BC — Ramesses II makes peace agreement with the Hittites (other date is 1263 BC ).
Clayton (1994) p. 146 A bold military leader, Ramesses II led his army against the Hittites in the Battle of Kadesh (in modern Syria ) and, after fighting to a stalemate, finally agreed to the first recorded peace treaty, around 1258 BC.
Archaeological research to date has been unable to corroborate a mass settlement of Philistines during the Ramesses III era.
But he proposed that it must have been at this very time — in the reign of Ramesses III — that these Pelasgians became Philistines."
Because the events of the reign of Ramesses III were unknown from other, the context of this particular war remained a mystery.
It is quite possible that for the initial period of time, the Philistines were housed in Egypt, only subsequently late in the troubled end of the reign of Ramesses III would they have been allowed to settle Philistia.