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	Encyclopedia article: Colchis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Homer (An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs) was well aware not only of the myth of the Argonauts ((Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece), he knew about the existence of Aea-Colchis and ancient Colchian tribes.
		At the end of the 2nd millennium BC and in the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC, the oldest Georgian Kingdom of Kolkha (Colchis) was located on the territory of Western Georgia, in the 6th century BC-7th century AD Georgian Kingdom Egrisi (additional info and facts about Egrisi).
		After this Colchis was incorporated with Pontus (An ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later incorporated into the Roman Empire) (64 BC).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/colchis.htm (766 words)

	Encyclopedia: Colchis
		In ancient geography, Colchis (sometimes spelled also as Kolchis) (Greek: ÎÎ¿Î»ÏÎ¯Ï, kÅlÂ´kÄ¬s; Georgian: áááá®á”á—á, Kolkheti) was a nearly triangular district in Caucasus.
		Colchis, in ancient geography, a nearly triangular district of Asia Minor, at the eastern extremity of the Black Sea, bounded on the N. by the Caucasus, which separated it from Asiatic Sarmatia, E. by Iberia (?), S. by the Montes Moschici, Armenia and part of Pontus, and W. by the Euxine.
		Colchis was celebrated in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, the home of Medea and the special domain of sorcery.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Colchis (697 words)

	AllRefer.com - Colchis (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		Colchis[kol´kis] Pronunciation Key, ancient country on the eastern shore of the Black Sea and in the Caucasus region.
		Centered about the fertile valley of the Phasis River (the modern Rion), Colchis corresponds to the present-day region of Mingrelia in Georgia.
		In Greek legend it was the home of AeEtes and Medea, the land where the Golden Fleece was sought by Jason and the Argonauts.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Colchis.html (211 words)

	COLCHIS - Online Information article about COLCHIS
		279) states that the Egyptians of Colchis preserved as heirlooms a number of wooden ulp13eis (tablets) showing seas and highways with considerable accuracy.
		After this Colchis was incorporated with Pontus, and the Colchians are not again alluded to in ancient history till the 6th See also:
		Christian inhabitants of Colchis, and Gobazes, perceiving that Chosroes intended to Persianize the district, appealed to See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CLI_COM/COLCHIS.html (1115 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Byzantine Empire
		On the accession of the great Chosroes I, Nushirvan (531-79), in spite of the peace of 532, which Justinian hoped would secure for him liberty of action in the West, Chosroes allowed him no respite.
		Syria suffered terribly from pillaging incursions, Lazistan (the ancient Colchis) was taken by the Persians and a road thereby opened to the Black Sea.
		Only after the Greeks resumed the war more vigorously (549) did they succeed in recapturing Lazistan, and in 562 peace was concluded.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03096a.htm (16935 words)

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