Is JUDAH in Spain?

Many of the Hidalgos (Spanish nobles) were of Israelite descent Some of the noble families among Sephardic Jews descend from the House of David. The lion rampant on the coat of arms of the Abarbanel family points to royal lineage. Jachias also claim to be descended from David. The Jews who live in Castile reckon their lineage from King David. Famous Sephardic family names include Senior, da Costas Eardley, Capadoses, Gideon, Belmonte, Nasi, Pacheco, Palache, Azevedo, Sadportas, Curiel, Cansino, Schonenberg, Toledo, Toledano, Teixeira, etcetera. Benjamin Disraeli was Sephardic. Many of Spain and Portugal's sailors and explorer-adventurers (Magellan, Columbus) descended from Israelites who went with the "king's ships" to Tarshish (2 Chr. 9:21) (Noble Families Among The Sephardic Jews by Isaak Da Costa, p. 142- 158)

The lamb with a GOLDEN FLEECE is the insignia of Spain's first order of chivalry. From the book called Spanish Pictures, written over a hundred years ago and illustrated by Gustave Dore, we read that the Spanish city of "TOLEDO, the Jews assert, was settled by their forefathers who fled from Palestine in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, and they derive its name from the Hebrew word TOLEDOTH understanding it to mean, 'the city of GENERATIONS.' It was in the neighborhood of TOLEDO that Taric, the Moslem general, at the time of the conquest of Spain by the Arabs, found that precious table adorned with hyacinths and emeralds which Gelif Alexis, in his description of Spain, calls the table of SOLOMON bar DAVID This table is supposed to have been saved by the captive Jews, with other precious and sacred vessels, from the pillage of the TEMPLE by Nebuchadnezzar, and brought with them to Spain. It was probably the same TABLE of SHEWBREAD spoken of in the Book of Kings and by Josephus."

Canon Lysons said, "The Phoenicians had established an emporium for trade at Tarshish, or Tartessus (1 Ki. 10:21), afterwards GADES, now Cadiz in Spain, more than 1000 years before Christ" ("National Message" 6/6/31, p.356). "Cadiz, founded according to tradition, by Phoenician merchants from Tyre as early as 1100 B.C., had become by the seventh century the great western market for the amber and tin from the Cassiterides ... Its growing trade ... attracted many Greek settlers ... The wealth and importance of GADES were ... great at this time (1st Cent. B.C.)" (Enc. Brit. 14th ed, vol. 4, p.513). The Phoenicians and Greeks were largely ISRAELITE. The IBERIAN peninsula was named after HEBREWS -- specifically ZARAH JUDAH who left Egypt about four centuries before the conquest of Palestine and founded settlements in IBERIA. The EBRO River also. Other Hebrew place names in Spain are: Yepez (Joppa), Tavora (Tabor), Avila (Abila), Gaona (Gaon), Correa (Core), Zachute (Zachut), Meneses (Manasseh), Geremias (Jeremiah), Salema (Salem), Bazan (Bashan), Calatayud (Galatia Judah), Curiel (Ariel), Segub-toi (Heb.) -- "The Fort of the Wanderers" now SAGUNTO. Gaddi (Heb.) -- "Armed troop" then "GADES" now Cadiz. Zarah-u-El (Heb.) "The Brightness of God" now TERUEL. Zarah-gaza (Heb) -- "Stronghold of Zarah now ZARAGOZA (this is the modern Spanish spelling of Saragossa). Arabah-gozan (Heb.) -- the "Plain" or "Pasture" now ARAGON. Baal-boaz (Heb.) -- the "Strength of Baal," now BILBAO. Jum-Birsha (Heb.) -- "Evil Sea" now Bay of BISCAY. Segub-ragan (Heb.) -- The neighbor's fortress" now SEGARA. In C. Forster's "Assyrian Monuments" the writings of the Cochin China Jews record that Nebuchadnezzar sent a fleet into the Mediterranean to conquer the colonies of the Phoenicians; that he gave permission to many of the tribes of Judah, Levi, Benjamin and Simeon to poceed in these ships and form colonies in Spain. This they did, and founded Lusitania, Toledo, Askelon and Makedda (see "A New Key for the Recovery of the Lost Ten Tribes").