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Furthermore, we learn from the chronicle of Idatius, written in the fifth century, that the Roman Emperor Theodosius was born in the town of Cauca, in the province of Galicia. No one can say with certainty where the town of Cauca was situated, but it is thought to have been somewhere between Braga and the river Minho. Now the word cauca in the language of the ancient Scythians meant "white", and the name of the mountains of Georgia which divide Europe from Asia is "Caucasus", said to have been given to them on account of their peaks being eternally "white" with snow. So here we have at least one Asiatic Iberian name given to a town of Galicia, and we should in all probability find others were we to begin to search for them.
The Iberians of the Caucasus are believed to have established themselves on the banks of the Caucasian rivers as far back as 3000 B.C. They multiplied so fast, we are told, that four hundred years after their arrival numbers of them wandered forth to seek a new home. They hurried along the northern coast of Africa and entered Spain by what was then the Isthmus of Hercules.acrescendo:
I have not had an opportunity of following the more recent anthropological studies of Señor Anton Ferrandez in connection with the subject of the first inhabitants of Spain, but in some of his lectures in the Athenaeum of Madrid he has propounded a theory that the two primitive races of Spain were that of the Cro-Magnon and that of the Celto-Slav. His conviction had been supported, moreover, by the recent discovery of prehistoric antiquities in Egypt analogous to those that have been found in Spain such as stone instruments, ornamental vases, and pictorial engravings upon rocks, representations of men and animals. In certain cases the signs discovered on Egyptian rocks have been found to be identical with those found in central Spain (Fuencaliente, Cueva di los Letreros, etc.) ; even the red colour with which some of them were engraved appeared to be the same.... acrescendo às referidas antiqualhas espanholas semelhantes às egípcias, acresce recentemente a indicação de ADN ibérico em faraós egípcios.
Furthermore, we learn from the chronicle of Idatius, written in the fifth century, that the Roman Emperor Theodosius was born in the town of Cauca, in the province of Galicia. No one can say with certainty where the town of Cauca was situated, but it is thought to have been somewhere between Braga and the river Minho. Now the word cauca in the language of the ancient Scythians meant "white", and the name of the mountains of Georgia which divide Europe from Asia is "Caucasus", said to have been given to them on account of their peaks being eternally "white" with snow. So here we have at least one Asiatic Iberian name given to a town of Galicia, and we should in all probability find others were we to begin to search for them.
The Iberians of the Caucasus are believed to have established themselves on the banks of the Caucasian rivers as far back as 3000 B.C. They multiplied so fast, we are told, that four hundred years after their arrival numbers of them wandered forth to seek a new home. They hurried along the northern coast of Africa and entered Spain by what was then the Isthmus of Hercules.acrescendo:
I have not had an opportunity of following the more recent anthropological studies of Señor Anton Ferrandez in connection with the subject of the first inhabitants of Spain, but in some of his lectures in the Athenaeum of Madrid he has propounded a theory that the two primitive races of Spain were that of the Cro-Magnon and that of the Celto-Slav. His conviction had been supported, moreover, by the recent discovery of prehistoric antiquities in Egypt analogous to those that have been found in Spain such as stone instruments, ornamental vases, and pictorial engravings upon rocks, representations of men and animals. In certain cases the signs discovered on Egyptian rocks have been found to be identical with those found in central Spain (Fuencaliente, Cueva di los Letreros, etc.) ; even the red colour with which some of them were engraved appeared to be the same.... acrescendo às referidas antiqualhas espanholas semelhantes às egípcias, acresce recentemente a indicação de ADN ibérico em faraós egípcios.