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    usage of the name Colchis in political and mythological contexts (i.e. the relationship between "Aia-Colchis" and "the land of Colchis"). According to the...
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  • Pharnavazid eristavi of Colchis and prince of the Kingdom of Iberia in the 1st century BC. Kartam was a descendant of Kuji of Colchis from his marriage on...
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    The Colchis Lowland (Georgian: კოლხეთის დაბლობი, K’olkhetis dablobi) is a geographical area in Georgia, which consists of a coastal lowland plain of the...
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  • fleece was ever removed from Colchis. Indeed, after Medea helped Jason steal the fleece, Perses usurped the throne of Colchis from his brother, but was subsequently...
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    Khalkotauroi (redirect from Colchis Bull)
    Χαλκαίοι, romanized: tauroi khalkeoi, lit. 'bronze bulls'), also known as the Colchis Bulls, are mythical creatures that appear in the Greek myth of Jason and...
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    Golden Fleece (category Colchis in mythology)
    Georgian (Historical Colchis) municipalities and cities, including the Coats of Arms of City of Kutaisi, the ancient capital city of Colchis. Athamas the founder...
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    Aeëtes (category Mythological kings of Colchis)
    History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC–AD 562. Clarendon Press. pp. 11, 30, 90–91. ISBN 0198144733. Lordkipanidze, Otar (1968). "Colchis in Antiquity"...
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    century BC on the Black Sea coast under the Kingdom of Colchis in western Georgia. The kingdom of Colchis, which existed from the 6th to the 1st centuries BC...
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    studies Cyril Toumanoff: Colchis appears as the first Caucasian State to have achieved the coalescence of the newcomer, Colchis can be justly regarded as...
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    kilometers (30 miles) in diameter. It was named for the ancient Kingdom of Colchis. Colchis is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when...
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  • Saulaces was a king of Colchis known from Naturalis Historia by the 1st-century Roman author Pliny the Elder and identified by one hypothesis as a king...
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    k'olkhuri drak'oni, Dragon of Colchis) this immense serpent, a child of Typhon and Echidna, guarded the Golden Fleece at Colchis. It was said to never sleep...
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    official language. Mithridates VI conquered the Colchis, and gave it to his son Mithridates of Colchis. As a result of the Roman campaigns between 88 and...
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    Staphylea colchica, the Caucasian bladdernut, Colchis bladdernut, or Georgian: ჯონჯოლი, jonjoli or djondjoli, is an ornamental shrub in the Staphyleaceae...
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  • Neapolis (Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις) was a town of Colchis, in the Caucasus, located south of Dioscurias, and north of Phasis, on the river Chobos or Chorsos...
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  • remote subjects, including those in Colchis, a country on the eastern Black Sea coast. For the Pontic monarchy, Colchis was a key possession, which supplied...
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    romanized: Mḗdeia; meaning "planner", "schemer") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis. In the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, she aids Jason in his search for...
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    1st century BC. Created as a result of the collapse of the kingdom of Colchis and the gaining of independence by the tribal-territorial units included...
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    a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Georgia, which comprises parts of the Colchis Lowland along some 80 km of western Georgia's Black Sea coastline. It was...
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    empires. Iberia, centered on present-day Eastern Georgia, was bordered by Colchis in the west, Caucasian Albania in the east and Armenia in the south. Its...
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  • ქუჯი, romanized: kuji) (fl. 4th century BC) was a ruler and eristavi of Colchis. During his reign his castle of Nokalakevi was built. Kuji aided Pharnavaz...
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    the location of Colchis and how to pass the Symplegades, or The Clashing Rocks, and then they parted. The only way to reach Colchis was to sail through...
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    ruler in Colchis is also known to Strabo, but he does not specify the dynast's name. As Aristarchus's extant drachms confirm he was "over Colchis", but he...
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    Hedera colchica (redirect from Colchis ivy)
    is native to Near and Middle East. It is commonly called Persian ivy or colchis ivy. It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 30 m high where suitable...
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    textiles. The classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the...
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    the eastern part of his world, perhaps near Colchis, since Circe was the sister of Aeëtes, king of Colchis, and because their paternal aunt the goddess...
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    Lithuania Maribor, Slovenia Tartu, Estonia Colchis Imereti The Forest Song “Aia is the city of Colchis. It is located on the edge of the populated universe"...
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    timber, linen, and hemp. It was also a prime center of slave trade in Colchis. The city and its surroundings were remarkable for the multitude of languages...
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    Poti (near ancient Phasis). The city of Kutaisi, once the ancient city of Colchis, lies on its banks. It drains the western Transcaucasus into the Black...
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  • them. In return, Phineus tells them the Golden Fleece is in Colchis. Meanwhile, on Colchis, the princess Medea has visions of the crew and her brother...
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