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Amasis II

d. 526 BCE · 6th century BCE · Also known as Ahmose II

Amasis II was pharaoh of Egypt from 570 to 526 BCE, of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. A general who took the throne after an army revolt against Apries, he ruled prosperously, allied with Greek states and gave Greek merchants the trading town of Naucratis. Persia conquered Egypt months after his death.

Amasis II
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Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt

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