Note 60 — Chapter II
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Handalusia signifies, in Arabic, the country of the West; and the Arabs applied the name not only to the modern province of Andalusia, but to the whole peninsula of Spain. The attempted derivation of the name of Andalusia from the Vandals (Vandalusia) is most improbable. Lembke travels still farther out of the way of all rational probability, by assigning the etymological paternity of the name to Andalos, whom the Arabians number among Noah’s grandchildren.