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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • King of Egypt who united Upper and Lower Egypt, thus founding Egypt's first dynasty.

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  • It was attempted to prove, in the same way as a thousand other things have been proved, that a king of Egypt, called Menes by the Greeks, was the Chinese King Yu; and that Atoes was Ki, by the change of certain letters.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • None of these cats is the modern day King Menes, meaning they aren’t going to bridge the gap between the commercial and underground and make it all one big united Hip Hop family again.

    Dart's Rant Of The Day: Jay Electronica: Hip Hop's New Black Jesus (Revisited) Dart Adams 2009

  • None of these cats is the modern day King Menes, meaning they aren’t going to bridge the gap between the commercial and underground and make it all one big united Hip Hop family again.

    Dart’s Rant Of The Day: Jay Electronica: Hip Hop’s New Black Jesus Dart Adams 2008

  • With all saurian ceremony, Menes was sculled over to found a city in about 3000 BC that would worship crocodiles, a city that under Ptolemy II was christened Crocodopolis.

    Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011

  • The Nigerian government has demonstrated good faith and willingness to go ahead with the project, says Jude Menes, the vice president of legal and related affairs at the Nigerian subsidiary of the firm, the Balkan Center Development, Ltd.

    Nigerian Government Partners With US Firm to Develop Federal Capital Territory of Abuja 2011

  • Farmers had already lived on the banks of the Nile for several thousand years when, according to tradition, Menes united the kingdoms of upper (southern) and lower (northern) Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium B.C. The Old Kingdom began a few centuries later with a highly centralized government under the pharaohs.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Farmers had already lived on the banks of the Nile for several thousand years when, according to tradition, Menes united the kingdoms of upper (southern) and lower (northern) Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium B.C. The Old Kingdom began a few centuries later with a highly centralized government under the pharaohs.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • With all saurian ceremony, Menes was sculled over to found a city in about 3000 BC that would worship crocodiles, a city that under Ptolemy II was christened Crocodopolis.

    Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011

  • It was here the greatest worship of Nile crocodiles took place, in a city founded by Menes of the First Dynasty, but officially named Crocodopolis in the third century BC by Ptolemy II.

    Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

  • It was here the greatest worship of Nile crocodiles took place, in a city founded by Menes of the First Dynasty, but officially named Crocodopolis in the third century BC by Ptolemy II.

    Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

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