So I conclude that there is a real possibility that Ezekiel was at this point using RO)$ as the name of an area or an ethnic group, parallel to Meshech and Tubal, and that the modern name Russia is derived from this place name Rosh - and even that the modern Russians are at least in part descended from the people of the Rosh referred to by Ezekiel.
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