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 . d 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 47
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 . d 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 MANKIND. possible that the Greek state of Elis, inthe eastern part of Peloponnesus, perpet-uated this name. Some have suggestedthat Hellas itself is a derivative fromElishah. Tarsus, on the Cilician coast,has been derived from the word Tarshish,assigned as the name of a second son ofJavan. A third tribe was called Kittim,which is believed to have been distrib-uted near Paphlygonia, or possibly intothe island of Cyprus. A fourth divisionof Javanites were the Dodanim, whichwe may possibly identify with the Do-donians of Macedonia. The tribal name. GATKWAY OF THE EAST ARYANS INTO INDI is sometimes spelled Rodanini, whichwould point to the island of Rhodes asthe locality of this branch of Javan. The race of Tibareni, mentioned bythe Greek historians, have generallyProbable identi- been referred to the Tubal, ficationofthe gf^^ ^^g ^f ?with •^ ^ the Tubaiites. They have been identifiedwith the original Georgians, but thename in itself does not indicate thedescent. In the Iberians we may dis-cover traces of the original name. Thelatter had their habitation bordering onthe Black sea and reaching out on thesouthern slope of the Caucasus. The sixth son of Japheth is calledMeshech, whose descendants were doubt-less the ancient Moschi. The territoryof this tribe lay next to that of theTibareni. The Moschian range ofmountains preserves the word in th
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