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Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp
Title: Ridpath’s history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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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 Iaones 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* GREAT RACES OE MANKINB. 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

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■ f j.^i.- UATEVVAY OK THE EAST ARYANS INTO INDIA—THE BOLAN PASS. is sometimes spelled Rodanim, 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, fifth tribe of Japheth. 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. fication of theGeorgians withthe Tubalites. 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 thenorth of Armenia to the present time.According to a conjecture of Rawlinson,the modern national name of Muscoviteis derived, through Moschi, f

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