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Fin-land, and westwards to Vannes, the port of the Veneti in Brittany bordering Alban, seems evidenced by the following amongst other such names, ancient! and modern, surviving even in regions where the dark Van dwarfish type is no longer prominent, or has been swept away (see map).

Vanand was the Greco-Roman name for the district between Van and the Upper Halys at Sivas.2. Vanota was at the crossing of the Halys near Czsareia on the border of Galatia, where St. Gregory wrote his twentieth epistle and noted that the name “ Vanota”’ was not Greek, but native Galatian.2 In Galatia, Vindia on the old Hittite royal road to Ephesus and the Bosphorus,* and Fanji.2 In Phrygia, Oinia or Vinia,® and Panasios, and to the south Oionandos or Vinandos in Cilicia, Bindeos in Pisidia, and Pinara in Lycia.* On the Hellespont, Banes with its lake on inner end (modern Bari),s and Pionia in Troad on flank of Mount Ida on Samnos River.’ On the Bosphorus, Pandicia or Pantichion, the first stage on ancient road from Rum (or Constantinople) to Asia Minor; and all in the traditional area of the Matriarchic Mother-cult and ‘“‘ Amazons.”’

Across Europe from the Hellespont and Bosphorus, up the Danube valley, the undoubted Van names in various dialectic forms are especially abundant. Wien or Vienna, the Vindo-bona of the Romans with its “‘ Vanii Regnum ”’ or ‘‘ Kingdom of the Vans ”’ still preserves the name of its original settlers. To its south is Veni-bazarin Albania, and in Roman times the Vennones and Pannonii tribes of the Vindelici race, which included the Briganti (i.e. Phrygian Vans), peopled the Upper Alpine Danube to the Rhine.” North of Vienna along the Upper Danube was located the old Wend tribe, extending across Austrian Galicia and Bohemia to Eastern Germany, with several ‘‘ Vend ”’ placenames, to the Baltic opposite Fin-land. And, regarding the latter name, it now appears possible that the modern stigma attaching to the name “ Fin ” may be owing to an old tradition based on the forgotten memory of the lowly origin and status of the race formerly bearing that name.’ The whole southern

1 The old Greco-Roman records for Asia Minor, derived from Ramsay’s Historical Geography (R.H.G.), are mostly those of ancient Byzantine bishoprics and important mission stations. ;

* R.H.G. 290, who finds that that district extended from Kars to Sebasteia (Sivas).

3 Ib. 288. “Tb. 142. ‘7b. 226 and 405. ® Tb. 144.

7 Ib. 386. 8 Ib. 150, etc. Biber 55% 10'S, 206: 4, 6; 8.

11 There are now two racial types in Fin-land, the tall, fair, long-headed Aryan type, and the short, darker, round-headed Slav or “! Alpine [Swiss] ”” type , neither of whom are of the dark, long-headed type of the Van dwarfs who were of the Dravidian or ‘‘ Iberian” type.