Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . i-vision was led and distributed. Thereis general consent that the famous savagerace of Scythians were the Distribution of . the Magog and offspring of Magog. Some the Madai. ,, t, i_ ethnographers have re-ferred the Turanians in general to thisorigin, and others have derived theCircassians, inhabiting the mountainousdistrict between the Caspian and theBlack sea, from the Magogian stock. Concerning the Madai, who are record-ed a
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . i-vision was led and distributed. Thereis general consent that the famous savagerace of Scythians were the Distribution of . the Magog and offspring of Magog. Some the Madai. ,, t, i_ ethnographers have re-ferred the Turanians in general to thisorigin, and others have derived theCircassians, inhabiting the mountainousdistrict between the Caspian and theBlack sea, from the Magogian stock. Concerning the Madai, who are record-ed as the third tribe of Japheth, there canbe little doubt that these were the ances-tors of the great race of Medes, whosecountry spread from the Upper Zagrostoward the east, as far as Hyrcania andthe desert of Aria. Subsequently, in thedevelopment of the Median race, the nation spread southward over the Irani-an plateau, and passed by conquest intoAssyria, and even to Babylonia. Butthe prehistoric tribes descended fromMadai were limited to the northern prov-inces east of the mountains. The fourth son of Japheth was Javan,easily identified with the Greek ancestral. OLD MEDIAN TYPES—^THE SASSANIAN PRINCES (OF THEDraw n by H Chapuis, from a photograph by Madame Die 3( ui rxi res) name laones, from whom, according tothe Hellenic tradition, the lonians ofAsia Minor and the ^gean Traces of the islands were descended, dispersion of the rrv ji \ T -1. Jaranites. 1 races of the Javaniteshave been discovered among the inscrip-tions of Egypt; and the Greeks as a racewere called Javanas among the ancientHindus. The Arabic word for Greeksis Yunan, which is evidently of the sameetymology with Javan. In later timesthe Hellenic ethnographers were dis-posed to accept laones as the ancestor oftheir whole race, and to make Ionianand Greek equivalent terms. From the Javan, several ancestralstocks are said to have been derived. Thefirst son bore the name of Elishah, and it is 478 GREAT RACES OF
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