Tiras was, according to Genesis 10, a son of Japheth. Josephus wrote that he became ancestors of the "Thirasians", inhabitants of Thrace, the first fair-haired people known to antiquity (later known as the "Getae"). Others have identified them among the components of the Sea Peoples known to Ancient Egypt as Tursha and to the Greeks as Tyrsenoi. Japheth (יֶפֶת / יָפֶת Enlarge, Standard Hebrew Yéfet / Yáfet, Tiberian Hebrew Yép̄eṯ / Yāp̄eṯ) is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. ... Josephus, also known as Flavius Josephus (c. ... Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... Sea Peoples is the term used in ancient Egyptian records of a race of ship-faring raiders who drifted into the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and attempted to enter Egyptian territory during the late 19th dynasty, and especially year 5 of Rameses III of the 20th Dynasty. ...

According to the Book of Jubilees, the inheritance of Tiras consisted of four large islands in the ocean. The Book of Jubilees expands and reworks material found in Genesis to Exodus 15. ...