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Reference: Kittim
Hastings
KITTIM (AV Chittim, which is retained by RV in 1Ma 1:1; 1Ma 8:5) designates properly the island of Cyprus, and is to he so understood in the geographical list of the descendants of Javan (wh. see), that is, the Ionians, in Ge 10:4. The name is based on that of the settlement on the south-east of the island, called Kition by the Greeks, the modern Larnaka. This was the first trading post of the Ph