In physical geography, Colchis is usually defined as the area east of the Black Sea coast, restricted from the north by the southwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus, from the south by the northern slopes of the Lesser Caucasus in Georgia and Eastern Black Sea (Karadeniz) Mountains in Turkey, and from the east by Likhi Range, connecting the ...

What we can say is that there is no evidence of any large black African population in Colchis, or, indeed, anywhere in the Caucasus. Although work in this area is ongoing, to date, studies of Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in the Caucasus have shown no evidence for any significant black presence in the region.

Colchis, ancient region at the eastern end of the Black Sea south of the Caucasus, in the western part of modern Georgia. It consisted of the valley of the Phasis (modern Rioni) River. In Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Medea and the destination of the Argonauts, a land of fabulous wealth and the domain of sorcery. Historically ...

2017年4月23日 · Colchis is located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in what today makes up the western half of the country Georgia. People from this kingdom were known as Colchians. Much of the kingdom was built along the banks of the Phasis River (today the Rioni River).

2024年1月10日 · When the Greeks began to exploit the Black Sea, they familiarized themselves with Colchis, established colonies, and started trading with the local tribes. Colchis became the eastern outpost of the Greek world and the border with the great civilizations of Asia.

2018年2月22日 · Colchis (western Georgia) and Kartli/ Iberia (eastern and southern Georgia) were important regions in the Caucasus area of Eurasia from the Bronze Age of the 15th century BCE. Prospering through agriculture and trade, the region attracted Greek and then Roman colonists. The success of several cities is indicated by the minting of their own coinage.

T HEN Herodotus visited Colchis (Mingrelia) in the fifth century B.c.,1 he found its people to be, as he described them, black-skinned and woolly-haired--that is, seemingly, of Negro type. They were, he says, circum-cised. "The Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians," he remarks, "are the only races which from ancient times have practised ...

One of four nations (along with Persians, Medes, and Saspires) who make up the land between the Southern and Northern Seas (Black Sea), including city of Aea. To the east of these four nations is the Red Sea and to the North, the Caspian Sea and Araxes River.

MARINE GIORGADZE - NINO INAISHVILI The Colchis Black Sea Littoral in the Archaic and Classical Periods According to the analysis of written and archaeological data, the first Greek colonies along the Black Sea littoral appear in the second half of the seventh century while on the Eastern Black Sea coast as early as the mid-sixth century; it is ...

The Eastern Black Sea region was home to the well-developed bronze age culture, known as the Colchian culture. In at least some parts of Colchis, the process of urbanization seems to have been well advanced by the end of the second millennium B.C, centuries before Greek settlement.