Matheson, however, made no note of this when he stated that he considered it was possible that the Indweller gave an Irish descent to the Macaulays because of the fact that there are numerous clans in Ireland with Gaelic names which can equate to " Macaulay " ( see " Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh " ).
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The earliest mention of Spain ( Hispania ) is, allegedly, found in Obadiah 1 : 20 : And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel who are among the Canaanites as far as b arfat ( Heb . ???? ), and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in "'Sepharad "', will possess the cities of the south . While the medieval lexicographer, David ben Abraham Al-Alfs + , identifies b arfat with the city of Caliph in C�rdoba, wrote to Joseph, the king of Khazaria, saying : The name of our land in which we dwell is called in the sacred tongue, " Sepharad ", but in the language of the Arabs, the indwellers of the lands, " Alandalus " [ Andalusia ], the name of the capital of the kingdom, C�rdoba .
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The earliest mention of Spain is, allegedly, found in Obadiah 1 : 20 : And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel who are among the Canaanites as far as b arfat ( ), and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in "'Sepharad "', will possess the cities of the south . While the medieval lexicographer, David ben Abraham Al-Alfs + , identifies b arfat with the city of $ isdai ibn ` aprkm , minister of trade in the court of the Caliph in C�rdoba, wrote to Joseph, the king of Khazaria, saying : The name of our land in which we dwell is called in the sacred tongue, " Sefarad ", but in the language of the Arabs, the indwellers of the lands, " Alandalus " [ Andalusia ], the name of the capital of the kingdom, C�rdoba .
