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They occupied a territory somewhere to the south of present-day Georgia, possibly in Cappadocia. The tribal name Meshech is believed to be the source of Meskheti, the name of a south-western Georgian province. However, it may also be connected with the name traditionally given to Armenians by Georgians: Samekha (Sa- is a collective prefix, as in Sakartvelo, the Georgian name for Georgia). Such connection need not indicate that present-day Armenians are necessarily descended from the Meshechs, but only that they occupy a territory previously inhabited by the Meshechs, whom the Armenians may have partly absorbed in the course of their development.