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Colchis
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Colchis
In
Greco-Roman geography
,
Colchis
(;
Kolkheti
;
Greek
Kolkhis
, presumably from
Kartvelian
ḳolkheti
or
ḳolkha
) was the name for a region in the
Southern Caucasus
. Colchis was located on the eastern coast of the
Black Sea
, centered on present-day western
Georgia
. Around the 1st centuries BC and AD the land south of the
Greater Caucasus
and north of the
Lesser Caucasus
was divided between Kolchis in the west,
Caucasian Iberia
in the center and
Caucasian Albania
in the east. To the southwest was
Armenia
and to the southeast
Atropatene
.
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