Girgashites Hebrew: גִּרְגָּשִׁי are one of the tribes who had invaded the land of Canaan as mentioned in Gen. 15:21; Deut.
[2] Although the Girgashites are not referred to in the narrative of the wars of conquests,[3] and their locality is not stated, they are named by Joshua among the peoples the Israelites dispossessed (24:11).
[4] This apparent inconsistency may be due to their emigrating to North Africa prior to the Israelites entering the land.
[5] That contention is further supported by Procopius (Wars 4.10.13-22), stating that the Phoenician diaspora settled in the western end of the Mediterranean, in the vicinity of later day Carthage.
[7] If that identification is correct the Girgashites would have been part of the southward migrations from Anatolia of peoples displaced by the fall of the Hittite empire ca.