Ashkenaz

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ashkenaz
     one of the three sons of Gomer (Gen. 10:3), and founder of one
     of the tribes of the Japhetic race. They are mentioned in
     connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their original seat
     must have been in Armenia (Jer. 51:27), probably near the Black
     Sea, which, from their founder, was first called Axenus, and


     afterwards the Euxine.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Ashkenaz, a fire that spreads