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Battle of Perire

Ancient Egyptian battle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Battle of Perire was fought around 1208 BC between the New Kingdom of Egypt, led by the pharaoh Merneptah, and a coalition of Libyan tribes and Sea Peoples. The Egyptians won a decisive victory. This was the first of many encounters between Egypt and the Sea Peoples. The main source of information about this battle is the Great Karnak Inscription.

Editorial summary

“Battle of Perire” enters the record as ancient Egyptian battle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Battle, Perire and Ancient can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1208—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Battle, Perire and Ancient.
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Why this record matters

“Battle of Perire” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Battle, Perire and Ancient provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1208.

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This entry incorporates text from “Battle of Perire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.