The Tjekker were one of the Sea Peoples who raided Egypt and the Levant during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE. They raided Egypt repeatedly before settling in northern Canaan. Sea Peoples is the term used in ancient Egyptian records of a race of ship-faring raiders who drifted into the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and attempted to enter Egyptian territory during the late 19th dynasty, and especially year 5 of Rameses III of the 20th Dynasty. ... The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia to the east. ... This article is about the land called Canaan. ...
The Tjekker were of uncertain origin, but they may have been connected to the Teucri, a tribe described by Homer and other ancient sources as inhabiting northwest Anatolia around Troy. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ...
They conquered the city-state of Dor, on the coast near modern Haifa, and turned it into a Tjekker kingdom. They are one of the few of the Sea Peoples for whom a ruler's name is recorded - in the papyrus account of Wenamun, an Egyptian priest, the ruler of Dor is given as "Beder". Dor - dwelling, or in Hebrew, generation, the Dora of the Greeks and Romans, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, (Joshua 12:23) whose ruler was an ally of Jabin king of Hazor against Joshua. ... For the Lebanese singer, see Haifa Wahbe Haifa (Hebrew חיפה; Arabic حيفا Ḥayfā) is the third-largest city in Israel, with a population close to 300,000. ... Blank papyrus. ... The Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of Wenamun, the Misadventures of Wenamun, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. ... Beder is a Tjeker leader and ruler of Dor mentioned in the Story of Wenamun. ...
In the early 900's BCE, Dor fell to the Israelites. No mention of the Tjekker is made after that date.
The council met the next morning and talked with the Tjeker (Wente 123), and a messenger from the king informed me of their decision.
However, once we had left the harbor, the Tjeker could do what they wished with him (Wente 122), although they were not to harm the crews.
Tjekerbaal said that he would give us a head start against the Tjeker, but his messenger reminded us that our king wished to have as little trouble with the Tjeker as possible (Casson, 1974, 42).
In the mortuary temple he built in Thebes Ramses describes how, despite the fact "no land could stand before" the forces of the Sea People and that they swept through " Hatti, Kode, Carchemish, Arzawa, and Alashiya " destroying their cities, he defeated them in a sea battle.
He gives the names of the tribes of the Sea People as including: the Peleset, the Tjeker, the Shekelesh, the Denyen, and the Weshesh.
However, because this list is identical to the one Merneptah included in his victory inscription and because Ramses also describes several fictitious victories on his temple walls, some Egyptologists believe that he never actually fought the Sea Peoples, but only claimed the victories of Merneptah as his own - a common ancient Egyptian practice.
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