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Kittim
Kittim was a settlement in present-day Larnaca on the east coast of Cyprus, known in ancient times as Kition, or (in Latin) Citium. On this basis, the whole island became known as "Kittim" in Hebrew, including the Hebrew Bible. However the name seems to have been employed with some flexibility in Hebrew literature. It was often applied to all the Aegean islands and even to "the W[est] in general, but esp[ecially] the seafaring W[est]". Flavius Josephus (c.
the story as part of a war between the Sabines, descended from Tubal, and the Roman Kittim (). A more detailed version of this narrative is found in the earlier mediaeval rabbinic work "Yosippon".
In 1962, a Spanish "sword and sandal" film based on the story was made, directed by Alberto Gout. Titled "El Rapto de las Sabinas," the film was released in the USA under the titles "The Rape of the Sabine Women" and "The Shame of the Sabine Women