Gog is not the name of a nation, rather a title. In the Hebrew it means, "to be elevated, to rise up" (Gesenius Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon) when used of an individual it has been likened to the modern Dictator. Gog is said by the prophet to be "the ruler of the land of Magog, the Prince of Rosh" (Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament). That is, while the undisputed ruler of Rosh he is also the ruler over the land of Magog. Who then is 'Magog'? - Josephus in his Antiquities (1:6:1) identifies Magog with the Sythians. He says, "Japheth, the son of Noah had 7 sons that inhabited the north, so that beginning from the mountains of Taurus and Amanas, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the River Tanus (or Don) and along Europe to Cadiz (Spain), and settling themselves on the land they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names, but were then called Gomerites, Magog founded those that were from him were named Magogites, but whom the Greeks called Sythians". The Sythians according to Herodotus (BC 300), Dion Casius (BC 200) and Diodorus Siculus (BC 100) were those dwelling from the shores of the Baltic to the River Don. Therefore the land of Magog is Central Europe covered by Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Holland.