The Peleset were one of the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 13th-early 12th centuries BC. The Peleset, whose name comes from the Pelasgians of the Aegean, originated on the island of Crete; the Book of Amos (9:7) relates how the God of Israel brought up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor (Crete). The Pelasgians, like the Weshesh of Crete and the Lukka of Lycia, were motivated to leave their homelands due to natural disasters, while other Sea Peoples such as the Sherden (Sardinians), Shekelesh (Sicels), Tjeker (Teucer's Salaminians), Denyen ("Danaans"/Mycenaeans), and Ekwesh ("Achaeans") had more mercenary motives about sacking wealthy cities. After being defeated by Pharaoh Ramesses III at the Battle of the Delta in 1175 BC, the Peleset were forcibly relocated to Canaan on the Egyptian frontier, where they intermixed with native Canaanites and became the Philistines.