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.

	

	Ashkenaz, a fire that spreads