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About the Barka surname

Barka alias Baga peoples in Senegambia may be the successors of the inhabitants of the
Greek colony of Barké in Libya ,wherever it exactly was .
It was founded under the reign of Arkesilaos ,king of Kyréné ,great grandson of the founder
and first king of the colony ,Battos .
Battos,or also the several successors of him of the same name were originally called Aristotelés ,
and may be identical with one of the early kings of Kanem ,called Aristo .
Kyréné was founded around 654 BC by colonists from different tribes ,among whom the dominant
group was from Poseidón's people .

Battos himself was the son of Polymnéstos ,from one of the clans of the Minya people originally
descended from Minyas ( Mi-Niu-Wa ) ,son of Poseidon / Neptun .
The successors of the tribe may well be the people called Niumi in Senegambia .

Neptun is the antique name of A-Na-Pat-Tel-A-Wa ,generic ancestor of Nawatl peoples ,
among them of the inhabitants of submergerd Atlantis too ,one of the twelve ancestors of the
twelve tribes of the Chosen People of the Holy Land of America .
At the stay of 430 years in Aigypt ,between about 2136 and 1706 BC ,he might have reigned in
the town of Napata .
He was also the ancestor of Agénór,father of Phoinix,of Phineys ,father of Bithyn ( Bithuin ) ,
after whom the region Bituin at Niger might be named .and of Kadmos,the forefather of Kadam tribe .
The latter's further descendants were Polydóros ,Labdakos,Laios ( Laawi ) ,after whom the town
of Laa may be named ,Oidipús,Polyneikés ,Thersandros,Tisamenos,Aytesion and Théras ( Tsha-ya-Wara ) ,
who named the island of Théra priorly called Kallisté after his name.
He may be the ancestor of Churo people .
He moved there in the company of Minya tribal members,whereas it had been inhabited by the
descendants of Membliaros ,son of Poikilios ,a relative of Kadmos,thus likely also of Nawatl origin .

Agénór's mother was Libyé ,whose name has been preserved in Fjaa-Lib ethnonym .
Her mother in turn was Memphis,daughter of Neilos .

Batt's mother was Phronimé ,daughter of Etearkhos from Oaxos in Kréta .He reigned for 40 years ,
first in a place called Aziris ,in Libya .
His name might have been preserved by Badyan people : Batt-Dian .
He was succeeded by Arkesilaos then by Battos ,and then by Arkesilaos,in whose reign his brothers
emigrasted from Kyréné to found Barké .
During the reign of another Battos ,his successor ,Démónax ( Dayawamoonag ) was invited to
Barké from Mantineia of Arkadia .This place was named after Mantineus ,son of Lykaón ,
son of Pelasgos ,and might have well thus been inhabited by members of Likan-Antai tribe ,
called also Kunza ,the descendants of Lykaon .
The town of Moli-Cunza in Mauretania might have been founded by them as well .
Mantine tribe among the Serer ,and Tinmanee ,might be the successors of settlers from Mantineia
( Man-Tin-E) arriving together with Démónax.
At this time,there were also colonists in Barké from the Peloponnésos ,that is Pelops' island ,
named for Pelops ,son of Tantalos son of Tmólos ,kings of Lydia,close relatives of the Tyrrhénians .
Felup people may be their successors .
Pelops was also the father of Atreys ,after whom Atre-Ba people in Gallaecia may be named ,
who may be the founders of Rebat in Marocco ,where the Murabitun ,believed to be the predecessors
of some among the Wolof ,might have been based .
His son was Menelaos ( Maene-Laa ) ,after whom some early Serer chiefs might have been called
Laamane .

Ba,king of Bithynia ,might have thus also been desnended from Atreys .

Gallaikos ,was the son of Héraklés,as was Atys ( Atiu ) ,father of Tyrrhénos .Héraklés ( Hayawal-Ra-Kel )
is identical with E-Wash-A-Shak-Kel-Ra ,generic ancestor of speakers of Euskara language,
who once had lived in Oaxaca of México .
In several Senegambian dialects BAT means one,as does in Euskara ,I understand .

Arkesilaos ,the son of this latter Battos married the daughter of the king of Barké ,
called Alazeir ( Alaj-Zewir ),after whom Aljezaa'ir ,as Alaj-e-Zawa-Ir may be named .
He might have also been descended from Battos ,from one of the emigrant princes ,
and thus been a Niumi .
This happened during the reign of Kambysés of Persia ,that lasted from about 555 to 547 BC .

Kyréné was named in honour of Kyréné ,mother-in-law of Aytonoé,sister of Polydóros ,son of Kadmos .
She was the daughter of Hypseys son of Péneios ( Payawa-Newi ) ,and was married to Arés ,
to bear him Diomédés ( Diwomayawad ) ,and then to Apollón ,father of Aristaios ( Aristawi ).
Péneios was also the great-grandfather of Tyró ,who might have been interested in hte affairs of
the Phoinician Tyros ,where Türk peoples may originate from ..She was married to somebody from
Poseidón's tribe too,and ebcame the mother of Néleys ( Nayawale ) ,the likely Nyole ancestor ,
whose people now speak Bantu ,grandfather of Bóros ( Boor ),possibly the one of some of the
Bororo and Boroyogo .
There are indeed some Türk words in Senegambian languages ,for examplle KAY / KAYA stone ,
or PAEZ / PAKIZ white ,clean ,and maybe more .
Tyró was the mother of Aisón ,who married Alkidiké,daughter of Minyas son of Poseidón ,
and of Amythaón ,father of Melampus .The latter -father of Mantios ,another Timane - may be the
forefather of Mlomp people,and also another Melampus ,perhaps his relative,father of Kisseys ,
the likely Kissi ancestor .
He was killed by Aineias .

Aigyptians had also been called Melampus ( Melan-Pud ) ,that is Black-Foot ,as are the Siksika
in the Northern part of the Holy Land of America .
This might have been also the tribe ,in some sense ,of Nyaymlamp ( Nyain-Melamp ),
who much later founded the Sikan kingdom in what is now Peru .
The Sik-Sika(n) thus might have been his people .
Later it was renamed Lambaye-Que ,so it appears that the town Lambaye in Africa might have
had narrow connections to Mlomp people ,and they are closely related to the Men of Lambaye ,
and to the Ibérian Sikan people .

Thus ,Barka peoples and other one traditionally related to them may be the successors of the
Hellenic colonies of Barké and Kyréné ,of settlers from different cross-related tribes ,
initially dominated by the tribe of Poseidón ,that are the Nawatl or Atlantida peoples .
Their ancestors were exiled from the Holy Land into Greece from about 800 BC on ,
when Assíyrians invaded the Northern kingdom that included what is now México,not very
long before they adventured to create colonies in Libya too .
According to this,mayn of the languages spoken in the region resemble a lot to the Nawatl speech .
For instance ,TOKA means bothe in Balanta and in Aztec language 'name' .

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