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Havilah (II)

Gen. x. 29.II. HAVILAH, the son of Joktan, in all probability peopled Colchis, and the country which is encompassed by the river Pison, or Phasis. These are in Armenia, and in the territories of the Colchians, the cities Cholva and Cholvata, and the region of Choloveta, taken notice of by Haiton.

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