Sea Peoples

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Calque of Egyptian nꜣ ḫꜣswt nt pꜣ ym (“the peoples/foreigners of the sea”), as written in the Great Karnak Inscription.

Proper noun[edit]

the Sea Peoples pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality, who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.

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