2453 BC

Map E - 2453 BC. Previous map: **2467 BC**. Next map: **2446 BC** (*Maps Index*)

*Tina*
*Ma'ot*
*Gedir*
**KHAM.**
**`Kashron**
**SENA`AR**
***Panthos***
***Khemeturi***
**Tritonis**
***Khety***
***KEFTIU***
***`AFRA TERR.***
**`ARATTA
& SAGA**
**`Ariana**
**Teg.**
***Ghomeri***
***Ganjis***
***GALLIA
TERR.***
**MAGOGIA**
**Fenninga**
**`Aistia**
***`AISTONA
TERR.***
***WITHESLETH
TERR.***
**`ABOWA**
***TWISKONA
TERR.***
***`ISTRIA
TERR.***
***TSARMAUTIA
TERR.***
***MOSAKHIA
TERR.***
***KERASO
TERR.***
***WESTERN ISLES
TERR.***
***TOBELIA
TERR.***
***KITTIM
TERR.***
***`ALBIONA
TERR.***
**QAINONA**
**Petraya**
**`Araba**
***DESERTA
TERR.***
**Kharran**
**SHUWUR**
***Ngushum***
***A. T.***
***`Arami***
***Khalatami***
***KHAL.
TERR.***
***W. KHALTAMIA
TERR,***
***Ludi***
***`AFERAG
TERR.***
## 2453 BC - SECOND PARTITION

If we suppose that after the deluge, the surveyors among Noh's progeny had preserved some means of observing correct latitude and longitude, it would explain a lot. The western boundary of Magog's allotment by the 2494 BC Partition had been a line extending due north to the north pole from "the middle point of the first tongue", ie from the center of the Balkan Peninsula on its southern coast. The most precise interpretation of this center point of the Balkan coast, taking the entire landmass as a whole, would place it approximately on the western edge of the Chalcidice Peninsula, whence Magog's western boundary extended due North. However, it is not unfeasible that another natural interpretation of "the middle point of the first tongue" would be the southernmost tip of the Peloponnese, which would move Magog's western boundary somewhat to the west, giving him slightly more territory in Eastern Europe. The location of `Aboa established by Magog in 2467 BC happens to be right in this strip of land where he might have pressed an additional claim at the expense of Madai's allotment on his west.

Madai's allotment was bounded on the south by the allotment of Tobel (Tubal), who in 2494 BC had received "the western half of the first tongue, all the second tongue, and beyond the second tongue to all the third tongue", ie. the Balkan peninsula defined as south of a straight line connecting the starting points on the coasts, and west of his brother Magog, the Italian Peninsula similarly defined continuing the Balkan line westwardly from the same point, then continuing the same line westwardly to the point of the Bay of Biscay where the Spanish peninsula starts, to include the Mediterranean coast of what became France in Tobel's portion.

The "four large islands in the ocean that borders Ham", ie the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland in the northern Atlantic Ocean, were assigned to Tiras. Madai had thus received the bulk of Western Europe within these limitations at the 2494 BC Partition.

Madai, still living not far from `Ararat (already being called `Aratta), was married with one of Shem's daughters, and it seems one or both of them was not pleased with the prospect of settling in a wild region so distant from her brethren, `Elam, `Asshur and `Arpagsad, so he begged the Semites for a homeland in their portion, until apparently `Asshur granted him the area between the Kura and Araxes rivers.

Perhaps Yoqtan (Joktan), leader of the Semites at Babel, felt Semites were entitled to some or all of the territory Madai had rejected in Europe, and this would have precipitated discussions and negotiations on redrawing the old 2494 BC borders at this time, a little over 40 years later. These discussions on the Second Partition probably carried less weight than the First had, as a number of competing claims were likely put in, with competing understandings between the administration at Babili, comprising Nemrod, Joktan and Samothes, and the other one in 'Aratta representing Nemrod's brother Sebta as the successor to Noah, and important Japhethite chiefs such as Ashkenaz and Togarmah, sons of Gomer.

The main outcome of the second agreement was that the Semite and Japhethite chiefs at Babili, Joktan and Samothes, both received their own allotments in Europe for future use. The tribe of Tiras had shown little inclination to settle so remotely as Britain; like the tribe of Meshech assigned to North America, they seem to have obtained a concession to use parts of Eastern Europe as a transient embarkation point; meanwhile one of Joktan's sons, Jobab may have put in a claim on Britain as well, however Britain would remain unoccupied by Tiras or Jobab, or anyone else for some time. The territories now assigned to Joktan, and to Meshech and Tiras in continental Europe, would all be subordinate to Twiskon (Ashkenaz), while that of Samothes would be in conjunction with the Galles, descendants of Noh's later children and of Yaphet's eldest son Gomer.

The Hamites showed the least inclination to travel from where they had already settled, and Nemrod Kashron wanted his kingdom in Shenar, nominally territory of 'Aram. Following the 2494 BC Partition, the Hamites had already turned over the Kura-Araxes region to the Youxiong (Old Chinese: *Ngushum*) tribe of Asshur, the same ones who now vacated it for Madai.

As preserved by Michael Syrus, it seems likely the Hamites on the occasion of the Second Partition also put some claims forth on additional territory, namely in Anatolia, the inheritance of Lud and Shem where they were then already squatted; as well as the islands in the Aegean and Mediterranean that had been allotted to Yawan and Arpagsad, and even the Greek mainland, part of Tubal's first allotment. Perhaps some Yawanites acknowledged the claims of Mesraim and Kene'an to their original allotment of islands, if the Yawanite Kittim tribe laid claim instead to some or all of the 'second tongue' (Italy) at this time. Inevitably however, a dispute over unoccupied islands in the Aegean must have provoked a scramble by various pioneers to occupy some of them. The island of Cyprus had probably already been occupied by Hamites about 20 years earlier. Thus I estimate that by roughly this time, perhaps the Mesri had occupied Crete, and the Pelasgi tribe, hybrids of Mesri and Keneani, settled Lesbos and nearby isles.