335:(as an alternative name for the Welsh language) became fashionable for a time in Wales, but the Gomerian theory itself has long since been discredited as an antiquarian hypothesis with no historical or linguistic validity.
474:
308:
also posited that the Welsh were descended from the
Cimmerians and from Gomer; this was followed by a number of later writers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
587:
280:, who were variously identified in ancient times as Cimmerian, Germanic or Celtic. In later times, some scholars connected them with the
284:, and descendants of Gomer. Among the first authors to identify Gomer, the Cimmerians, and Cimbri, with the Welsh name for themselves,
817:
574:
484:
981:
996:
254:) recounts a Persian tradition that Gomer lived to the age of 1000, noting that this record equalled that of
17:
244:
810:
434:
chronicles lists
Togarmah as the ancestor of both people who originally inhabited the land between two
1006:
991:
788:
659:
645:
618:
320:
143:
311:
This etymology is considered false by modern Celtic linguists, who follow the etymology proposed by
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531:
479:
115:
31:
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327:("fellow countryman"). The name Gomer (as in the pen-name of 19th century editor and author
8:
908:
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736:
403:
312:
371:
367:
219:
193:
881:
871:
851:
795:
370:, and says ruled first in Germany/Scythia, was identified by later historians (e.g.
1001:
866:
843:
732:
339:
305:
184:, but were then called Gomerites." Galatia in fact takes its name from the ancient
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83:
229:) followed Josephus' identification of Gomer with the Galatians, Gauls and Celts.
830:
749:
431:
120:
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41:
710:
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457:
records, Togarmah is regarded as the ancestor of the Turkic-speaking peoples.
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447:
443:
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683:
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139:
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427:
775:
A History of Wales from the
Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
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79:
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898:
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181:
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147:
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714:
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355:
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237:
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110:
350:, i.e. Gomer son of Japheth, had first settled in Comera (now
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940:
698:
Yiddish
Civilization: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
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331:, for instance) and its (modern) Welsh derivatives, such as
113:
Gomer, "standing for the whole family," as the compilers of
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839:
233:
415:
Children of
Ashkenaz were originally identified with the
386:
Three sons of Gomer are mentioned in
Genesis 10, namely:
192:) who settled there. However, the later Christian writer
258:, but was unsurpassed by anyone else mentioned in the
150:
in the late 7th century BC. The
Assyrians called them
825:
483:. Funk and Wagnalls. 1906. p. 40. Archived from
69:
358:following the dispersion of peoples. In addition,
681:Kraus, S. (1932), "Hashemot 'ashkenaz usefarad",
973:
767:
758:Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century
423:), then after the 11th century, with Germany.
161:
811:
521:(Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 381–382.
154:; the Cimmerian king Teushpa was defeated by
731:
296:(first published in 1586). In his 1716 book
158:of Assyria sometime between 681 and 668 BC.
613:
611:
243:In Islamic folklore, the Persian historian
818:
804:
709:
601:
599:
672:See, for instance: Piggot, pp. 132, 172.
608:
519:The Oxford History of Prehistoric Europe
442:and between two inaccessible mountains,
626:. The editors note the false etymology.
596:
14:
974:
381:
203:assigned Gomer as the ancestor of the
146:, "beyond the Caucasus", and attacked
799:
273:peninsula in Germania (now Denmark)
240:, Gomer is identified as "Germamya".
760:, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.
700:. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
176:: "For Gomer founded those whom the
169:placed Gomer and the "Gomerites" in
119:expressed it, is also mentioned in
45:
24:
25:
1018:
575:History of the Prophets and Kings
743:
725:
703:
690:
675:
666:
652:
638:
629:
207:, neighbours of the Galatians.
789:University of Wales Dictionary
660:University of Wales Dictionary
646:University of Wales Dictionary
619:University of Wales Dictionary
581:
562:
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538:
524:
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467:
288:, was the English antiquarian
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342:published fragments known as
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784:. Thames and Hudson: London.
768:General and cited references
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245:Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
7:
773:Lloyd, John Edward (1912).
162:Traditional identifications
127:, the chief of the land of
70:
10:
1023:
29:
917:
880:
838:
506:Cambridge Ancient History
59:
46:
737:"The History of Armenia"
696:Kriwaczek, Paul (2005).
269:were a tribe settled on
74:) was the eldest son of
780:Piggot, Stuart (1968).
717:The Georgian Chronicles
570:Prophets and Patriarchs
532:Antiquities of the Jews
480:The Jewish Encyclopedia
315:in 1853, which derives
116:The Jewish Encyclopedia
982:Book of Genesis people
517:Barry Cunliffe (ed.),
354:) in the 10th year of
232:According to tractate
32:Gomer (disambiguation)
508:Vol. II pt. 2, p. 425
374:) as none other than
144:Pontic–Caspian steppe
82:line), and father of
997:Hebrew Bible nations
622:, vol. II, p. 1485,
298:Drych y Prif Oesoedd
123:38:6 as the ally of
94:, according to the "
30:For other uses, see
827:Descendants of Noah
663:, vol. II, p. 1485.
382:Gomer's descendants
313:Johann Kaspar Zeuss
372:Johannes Aventinus
368:fourth son of Noah
278: 200 BC
220:Isidore of Seville
194:Hippolytus of Rome
969:
968:
649:, vol. I, p. 770.
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16:(Redirected from
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1007:Noach (parashah)
992:Cimmerian people
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733:Moses of Chorene
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723:
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707:
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340:Annio da Viterbo
306:Theophilus Evans
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134:The Hebrew name
96:Table of Nations
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440:Caspian Seas
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404:I Chronicles
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282:Welsh people
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205:Cappadocians
165:
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135:
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114:
108:
100:Hebrew Bible
78:(and of the
51:
37:
36:
572:(Vol. 2 of
976:Categories
862:Arpachshad
792:, Vol. II.
782:The Druids
750:Pritsak O.
593:, I.17,19.
419:(Assyrian
366:calls the
304:historian
252: 915
227: 600
216: 390
201: 234
156:Assarhadon
140:Cimmerians
687:3:423–435
590:Britannia
588:Camden's
461:Citations
417:Scythians
398:(spelled
325:Combrogos
321:Brythonic
319:from the
294:Britannia
236:, in the
182:Galatians
180:now call
171:Anatolian
111:eponymous
98:" in the
65:romanized
923:Japhetic
624:Gomeriad
568:Tabari,
545:Chronica
432:Georgian
428:Armenian
426:Ancient
410:Togarmah
391:Ashkenaz
376:Ashkenaz
338:In 1498
333:Gomeraeg
167:Josephus
152:Gimmerai
92:Togarmah
84:Ashkenaz
80:Japhetic
1002:Japheth
956:Meshech
919:Japheth
899:Mizraim
886:Hamitic
844:Semitic
831:Genesis
754:Golb. N
491:May 10,
475:"Gomer"
421:Ishkuza
400:Diphath
396:Riphath
362:, whom
360:Tuiscon
292:in his
271:Jutland
174:Galatia
148:Assyria
104:Genesis
88:Riphath
76:Japheth
67::
49:
909:Canaan
752:&
684:Tarbiẕ
535:, I:6.
455:Khazar
356:Nimrod
323:word *
267:Cimbri
256:Nimrod
238:Talmud
218:) and
209:Jerome
178:Greeks
90:, and
47:גֹּמֶר
42:Hebrew
961:Tiras
951:Tubal
946:Javan
941:Madai
936:Magog
931:Gomer
857:Ashur
547:, 57.
436:Black
352:Italy
317:Cymry
302:Welsh
286:Cymri
260:Torah
190:Celts
186:Gauls
136:Gomer
129:Magog
106:10).
71:Gamér
60:Γαμὲρ
56:Greek
52:Gōmer
38:Gomer
921:and
904:Phut
894:Cush
884:and
872:Aram
852:Elam
842:and
840:Shem
557:Yoma
493:2011
446:and
438:and
430:and
265:The
234:Yoma
109:The
882:Ham
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559:10a
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196:in
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