GERGESEOS
People descended from Canaan (Gen. 10:16), related to the Canaanites in the list of tribes or nations that lived in the country (Gen. 15:21; Deut. 7:1; Josh. 3:10; 24:11 ; Neh. 9:8).
There are those who suppose that this name survived in that of “Gadarenes.” However, Josephus states that nothing was known for certain (Ant. 1:6, 2).
Identifications with the Qarquish from the Egyptian records of Ramses II and with the Kirkishati from an Assyrian tablet are doubtful.
They were probably closely related to the Hittites.