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  Teos (Tachos) (Irmaatenra Djeho) of Nectanebo I b: in Egypt
  Tjahapimu of Nectanebo I b: in Egypt
  AKA Pharaoh (Nectanebo I) Nakhtnebef foster b: in Egypt
  Nectanebo I was the first ruler of the Thirtieth Dynasty and was a general from Sebennytus. He is thought to have been related to the family of Nepherites I. He imposed heavy taxes on the people of Egypt in order to conquer Syria from Persia. In the spring of 373 BC, the Persian army moved in to attack Egypt. They got as far as the Mendesian mouth of the Nile. Two of the commanders of the Persian forces could not agree on their strategy. As the time passed, the Nile rose and flooded the Delta area. The Persians abandoned their efforts and left. The Egyptians had successfully turned back the Persians, with a little help from the Nile, and peace was established. Nectanebo restored and built many monuments throughout Egypt.
  Nectanebo (Nakhtnebef): pharaoh of Egypt, ruled 380-362.
  In the fifth century BCE, Egypt was part of the Persian empire. However, in 404, a quarrel started between king Artaxerxes II Mnemon and his younger brother Cyrus, which lasted until 401. The Egyptians, led by Amyrtaeus, seized the opportunity and regained their independence. Persian attacks in 385 and 383 were repulsed by Egyptian soldiers and Greek mercenaries, which were commanded by the Athenian general Chabrias, and a period great prosperity started.
  
  Amyrtaeus was succeeded by Nepherites I and Achoris. When the latter died in 380, there was unrest in Egypt, and his son Nepherites II occupied the throne for only four months. The new king was Nakhtnebef or Nectanebo, who may have been a distant relative of Nepherites I but was -whatever his family connections- an usurper. His home town was Sebennytus, a city in the heart of the Delta of the Nile.
  
  The Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon was aware of the troubles surrounding the accession of Nectanebo, and decided to attack Egypt. In 386, he had concluded a peace treaty with the Greeks, and under the terms of this treaty, he requested the Athenians to recall Chabrias (379). So, Egypt was left without allies, and the Persians started to prepare themselves, which took several years. Finally, their general Pharnabazus gathered a large navy at Acco in northern Palestine. His army was reinforced with Greek mercenaries, commanded by Iphicrates (Spring 373).
  
  Nectanebo I or II
  
  Their advance to Egypt was uneventful, which suggests that Nectanebo did not possess a navy that could attack the Persians during their five days' march through the desert between Gaza and Pelusium (i.e., Port Said). However, Pelusium, situated on the most eastern branch of the Nile, was strongly defended, and the Persians were unable to capture the Egyptian stronghold. Therefore, they decided to go around it and used another branch of the Nile to enter the country. (The fortress that guarded the entrance was razed to the ground.) They marched on Memphis -or wanted to do so- but by that time, Iphicrates and Pharnabazus had disagreed as to strategy, and they hesitated to attack the Egyptian capital. Nectanebo was able to reinforce Memphis, and in July, his enemies were forced to retreat: because of the Nile inundation, the Delta had become one great swamp. Pharnabazus had underestimated the Egyptian strength and the logistics of the campaign.
  
  It was an important Egyptian victory. The Persians were unable to come back. After 370, the west of their empire was in great turmoil (a period known as the Satrap's revolt), and it took Artaxerxes II and his successor Artaxerxes III Ochus much time to reestablish their power.
  For Egypt, the fact that it had -without allies- defeated the most powerful state in the world, meant the beginning of a national restoration. Nectanebo rebuilt and enlarged several important temples (e.g, at Bubastis, Memphis, Abydus, Thebes/Karnak, and Edfu) in a style that is reminiscent of the buildings of the twenty-sixth dynasty, which had been the last native dynasty before the conquest by the Persian king Cambyses in 525.
  
  In the last years of Nectanebo's reign, he negotiated with some of the rebellious Persian satraps, and plans were made for an attack on the Persian empire, where Phoenicia was a natural target. Athens no longer felt obliged to obey the Persian king, and Chabrias was sent back to Egypt. However, the execution of the plan was left to Nectanebo's son Teos, who had already been made co-ruler in 365.
  
  Nectanebo died in 362 after a reign of 18 years.
  (http://www.livius.org/ne-nn/nectanebo/nectanebo_i.html)
  
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