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Togarmah .

Hebrew: תוגרמה
Also Known As: "Фогарма", "Тегарма"
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Son of Gomer . and X .
Father of Agior .; Balker .; Bizel .; Bardos .; Chigon . and 16 others
Brother of Riphath . and Ashkenaz .
Half brother of Ash-Tubal .; Rabitah Lord of Magog and Modhekh (Yuj) .

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About Togarmah .

Genesis 10:3

Wikipedia: Togarmah.

Togarmah (Hebrew: תֹּגַרְמָה Tōgarmā[h]; Armenian: Թորգոմ T’orgom) is a figure in the "table of nations" in Genesis 10, the list of descendants of Noah that represents the peoples known to the ancient Hebrews. Togarmah is among the descendants of Japheth and is thought to represent some people located in Anatolia. Medieval traditions variously claimed Togarmah as the mythical ancestor of peoples in the Caucasus and western Asia, including the Georgians, the Armenians and some Turkic peoples (i.e. Oghuzes, Khazars).]...[Jewish traditions Togarmah was linked to medieval Turkic peoples by Jewish-Khazar traditions. The Khazar ruler Joseph ben Aaron (c. 960) writes in his letters:

"You ask us also in your epistle: "Of what people, of what family, and of what tribe are you?" Know that we are descended from Japhet, through his son Togarmah. I have found in the genealogical books of my ancestors that Togarmah had ten sons." He then goes on to enumerate ten names that can be identified as contemporary tribes living near the Black and Caspian Seas:[5][6] "Ujur" (Uyghur), "Tauris" (Tauri), "Avar" (Avar), "Uguz" (Oghuz), "Bizal", "Tarna", "Chazar" (Khazar), "Janur", "Bulgar" (Bulgar) and "Sawir".

The medieval Jewish Joseph ben Gorion lists the ten sons of Togarmas in his Josippon as follows:

.Kozar (the Khazars) - a semi-nomadic Turkic people with a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea and Kazakhstan.

.Pacinak (the Pechenegs) - a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia speaking the Pecheneg language which belonged to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.

.Aliqanosz (the Alans) - an Iranian nomadic pastoral people of antiquity -

.Ragbiga (Ragbina, Ranbona)

.Turqi (possibly the Kökturks)- a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the main power in the region and established the Turkic Khaganate, one of several nomadic dynasties which would shape the future geolocation, culture, and dominant beliefs of Turkic peoples. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk_family_tree

.Buz (the Oghuz) - see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Yabgu_State

.Zabuk

.Ungari (either the Hungarians or the Oghurs/Onogurs)

.Tilmac (Tilmic/Tirôsz - Tauri)."

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