Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt

State · 1,600–1,501 BCE · at its largest around 1,600 BCE

Poorly documented dynasty of the Second Intermediate Period, variously interpreted as Hyksos vassals or as a local line of kings based at Thebes.

On its lands while it lasted

• Ahmose I expels the Hyksos (c. 1,550 BCE): Ahmose I of Thebes captured Avaris and drove out the Hyksos, reuniting Egypt and founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

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