Colchis
Sign in to saveIn classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi () located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia also including the region of Abkhazia.
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Colchis was an ancient kingdom located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in what is now western Georgia and Abkhazia, known to classical Greek and Roman geographers by that name. It matters as an important historical polity in the ancient world and as the ancestral homeland of the Georgian people, representing a significant center of civilization in the Caucasus region during antiquity.
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- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Colchis
- Former country.native_name
- ეგრისიEgrisi
- Former country.era
- Iron Age, Classical antiquity
- Former country.year_start
- 13th century BC
- Former country.year_end
- 131 AD
- Former country.event_start
- Consolidation of Colchian tribes
- Former country.event1
- Conquest of Diauehi
- Former country.date_event1
- 750 BC
- Former country.event2
- Two invasions of Sardur II of Urartu
- Former country.date_event2
- 744/743 BC
- Former country.event3
- Cimmerian and Scythian invasions
- Former country.date_event3
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- Geography and toponyms
- Physical-geographic characteristics
- Economy, agriculture and natural resources
- History
- Prehistory and earliest references
- Achaemenid satrapy
- Under Pontus
- Under Roman rule
- Numismatics
- Rulers
- In mythology
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- Citations
- General and cited sources
- External links
In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi () located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia also including the region of Abkhazia.
Its population, the Colchians, are generally believed to have been primarily early Zan-speaking tribes, ancestral to the modern Laz and Mingrelian peoples. According to David Marshall Lang: "one of the most important elements in the modern Georgian nation, the Colchians were probably established in the Caucasus by the Middle Bronze Age."