Amasis (Ama`sis) , king of Egypt, originally a simple soldier, took part in an insurrection, dethroned the reigning monarch and assumed the crown, proved an able ruler, and cultivated alliances with Greece; reigned from 570 to 546 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ama`sia * Ama`ti