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Tabals (also Tobal, Tubal, Jabal, and Tibarenoi) were an indigenous tribe of Asia Minor, who inhabited Great Cappadocia, now part of Turkey. Some scholars associate them with the Meshechs (Meshekhs/Mosokhs, Moschoi in Greek). According to the archeologist Kurt Bittel (Hattusha, the Kingdom of the Hittites 1970: pp. 133f), they first appeared after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, although some experts claim to trace their presence back to the 3rd millennium BC.
The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III records that he received gifts from their 24 kings in 837 BC and the following year. A century later, their king Burutash is mentioned in an inscription of king Tiglath-Pileser III. They have left a number of inscriptions from the 9th - 8th centuries BC in hieroglyphic- Luwian in the Turkish villages of Calapverdi and Alisar .
The Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili considered Tabal, Tubal, Jabal and Jubal to be ancient GeorgianGeorgia ( Sakartvelo in Georgian), known from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the south Caucasus. A former republic of the Soviet Union, it shares borders with Russia in the north and Turkey, Armenia, A tribal designations, and argued that they spoke a non- Indo-European language. Many authors, following JosephusJosephus also known as Flavius Josephus (c. 100) was a 1st century Jewish historian of priestly ancestry who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 and settled in Rome. He was originally known as Yosef Ben-Matityahu Matthias in Greek)., relate the term to Iber; he wrote: "Tobal gave rise to the Tobals, who are now called IberiansCaucasian Iberia is the term designated to the Kingdom of Iberia ( 4th century BC 5th century AD) established in Eastern Georgia by the Georgians ( Kartvelians). The king of Iberia, Farnavaz I was a reformer of the Georgian alphabet ( 284 BC). He was also". This identification was repeated by EustathiusEustathius or Eumathius surnamed Macrembolites ("living near the long bazaar"), the last of the Greek romance writers, flourished in the second half of the 12th century AD. His title Protonobilissimus shows him to have been a person of distinction, and if of Antioch, Bishop TheodoretTheodoret ( 393 c. 457) was an author and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus ( 423 457). Life According to Tillemont, he was born at Antioch in 393, and died either at Cyrrhus ("about a two-days' journey east of Antioch" or eighty Roman miles), or at the monaste and others.