Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land" n pr m<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media n pr loc<LI>land inhabited by the descendants of Japheth; located northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, and west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iram</OL>