Tubalism

Tubalism is the branch of "Iberian" which assigns mythical origins (Túbal, grandson of Noah) to the Basque people and by extension also to the Iberian people. Its followers can be found in the Basque-Iberian theories; in its purest aspect still Jorge María Ribero Meneses continues to defend such a hypothesis. Túbal would be the first Iberian monarch, who would have founded cities such as Tafalla (Navarra) and Tudela. The Hebrew lexicographer Wilhelm Gesenius who lived in the nineteenth century also believed that Tubal's descendants founded several cities not only in the west but also in the east of the Caucasus, which he deduced from his study of the place names and eponyms of those areas. Fundamentalist Christians in North America mostly adopted this theory and it is part of their dispensational eschatological scheme for the end times; they see the Asian Túbal allied to Russia (Magog) in an invasion of Israel at the end of time, it is their interpretation of Ezekiel 38.

In Siberia there is also evidence of "tubalite" of its origins, where some point to its historical capital Tobolsk and its main river, Tobol, as the toponymy of Tubal (in Tatar language it is Tubil) since its first inhabitants would be descendants of Túbal.