Genesis 10:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Japheth s portion was at first Asia the Less, and afterwards by degrees all Europe, and the northern parts of Asia. This is he so much celebrated among the Greeks by the name of Japetus. Gomer s posterity are reckoned among the northern people, Ezekiel 38:6, and were seated in the northern parts of the Lesser Asia, and afterwards about Thracia; and from him were called Gomari, and by an easy change Cimbri, or Cimmerii. Magog was the father of the Scythians, as may be gathered from Ezekiel 38:2-3, Ezekiel 38:15, Ezekiel 39:3, Ezekiel 39:6. The posterity of Madai, wheresoever they were first placed, in Macedonia or elsewhere, afterward were fixed in Media, and were called Medes, and in the Hebrew by the name of their father Madai, as appears from 2 Kings 17:6 Isaiah 13:17 Jeremiah 25:25, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 5:28, Daniel 6:8. From Javan came the Grecians, who are called by themselves Iaones, or Iones, and in the Hebrew Jevanim, and their country Greece, Javan. See Isaiah 66:19 Ezekiel 27:13, Ezekiel 27:19, Daniel 8:21, Daniel 10:20. Of Tubal came the Iberi, anciently called Thobeli, a people of Asia, near the Euxine Sea. See Ezekiel 27:3, Ezekiel 32:26, Ezekiel 38:2-3. Meshech was father of the Moschi, i.e. the Muscovites, or rather, as others think, the Cappadocians, who were anciently called Meschini, and Moschi, and their chief city Maraca. And Tiras was father of the Thracians; amongst whom is a river and haven called Athyras, and who worshipped their god Mars under the name of Thuras.