Medieval sources claimed that Togarmah was the legendary ancestor of several ethnic groups in the Caucasus, including Armenians and Georgians.

[3] Several later ethnological traditions have claimed Togarmah as the legendary ancestor of various peoples located in western Asia and the Caucasus.

According to Moses of Chorene's History of Armenia and to Leonti Mroveli's medieval Georgian Chronicles, "Thargamos" was thought to have lived in Babylon, before he received the "land between two Seas and two Mountains" (i.e. the Caucasus) in his possession.

He then settled near Mount Ararat and divided his land among his sons:[4][5] Togarmah was linked to several medieval Turkic peoples by Jewish traditions.

The Khazar ruler Joseph ben Aaron (c. 960) writes in his letters: You ask us also in your epistle: "Of what people, of what family, and of what tribe are you?"