This is a nation associated with the [[Ararat]] area; Jeremiah 51:27. In Talmudic sources, it is rendered as Asia (Targum Yonathan; Targum on 1 Chronicles 1:6; Yerushalmi, Megillah 1:9). In ancient times, besides denoting the entire continent, Asia also referred to what is now the western part of Asiatic Turkey, bordering on the Aegean Sea. However, there was also a tribe of [[Asies]] living in the area of Sardis (the modern Sart), the capital of Lydia (Herodotus 4:45). Both are the same area.