Salitis

In the Manethonian tradition, Salitis (Greek Σάλιτις, also Salatis or Saites) was the first Hyksos king, the one who subdued and ruled Lower Egypt and founded the 15th Dynasty.

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Pharaoh.Name: Salitis
Pharaoh.alt_name: Salatis, Saites
Pharaoh.Image: Hyksos invasion as imagined in the 19th century by Hermann Vogel.jpg
Pharaoh.image_size: 230px
Pharaoh.caption: Einfall der Hyksos ("Invasion of the Hyksos") by Hermann Vogel (c. 1880); the Hyksos invaders are imagined just after a victorious battle against the Egyptians.
Pharaoh.Reign: around 1650 BCE
Pharaoh.Predecessor: Timaios (13th Dynasty?)none/founder (15th Dynasty)
Pharaoh.Successor: Bnon/Beon
Pharaoh.Dynasty: 15th Dynasty

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date of birth: 1700-01-01
date of death: 1700-01-01

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In the Manethonian tradition, Salitis (Greek Σάλιτις, also Salatis or Saites) was the first Hyksos king, the one who subdued and ruled Lower Egypt and founded the 15th Dynasty.

==Biography== Salitis is mainly known from a few passages of Flavius Josephus' work Contra Apionem; for these passages, Josephus claimed to have reported Manetho's original words. It seems that during the reign of an Egyptian pharaoh called Timaios or Tutimaios, an army of foreigners suddenly came from the Near East and took over the Nile Delta without a fight. After conquering Memphis and likely deposing Timaios, the invaders committed several atrocities such as destroying cities and temples and killing or capturing the native Egyptians. After that, they