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.

[1] Flavius Josephus (c. 100 AD) records in his Antiquities of the Jews that The expression "isles of Kittim", found in the Book of Jeremiah 2:10 and Ezekiel 27:6, indicates that, some centuries prior to Josephus, this designation had already become a general descriptor for the Mediterranean islands.

[8] Some authors[citation needed] have speculated that it comes from an Akkadian word meaning "invaders".

Others (following Max Müller) have identified Kittim with the land of Hatti (Khatti), as the Hittite Empire was known.

The first king of Rome, Romulus, is made in this account to be a distant successor of this line.