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	Matiane - მატიანე \| Strabo, Geography, 11.2.1
		All these are parts of the Taurus, which forms the southern side of Armenia,parts broken off, as it were, from that mountain on the north and projecting as far as the Caucasus and that part of the coast of the Euxine which stretches from Colchis to Themiscyra.
		Be this as it may, since Dioscurias is situated in such a gulf and occupies the most easterly point of the whole sea, it is called not only the recess of the Euxine, but also the "farthermost" voyage.
		The same Dioscurias is the beginning of the isthmus between the Caspian Sea and the Euxine, and also the common emporium of the tribes who are situated above it and in its vicinity; at any rate, seventy tribes come together in it, though others, who care nothing for the facts, actually say three hundred.
	www.matiane.com /strabo_colchis.htm (997 words)

	Strabo, Geography (eds. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Next to Dioscurias is the remainder of the coast of Colchis, and Trapezus contiguous to it; where the coast, having made a considerable turn, then extends nearly in a straight line, and forms the side on the right hand of the Euxine, looking to the north.
		The whole of the coast of the Achæi, and of the other nations, as far as Dioscurias, and the inland places lying in a straight line towards the south, are at the foot of the Caucasus.
		This same Dioscurias is the commencement of the isthmus lying between the Caspian Sea and the Euxine.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239&loc=11.2.19 (3872 words)

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		The Periplus of Arrian is addressed to the emperor Hadrian, (in Geograph.
		i.,) and contains whatever the governor of Pontus had seen from Trebizond to Dioscurias; whatever he had heard from Dioscurias to the Danube; and whatever he knew from the Danube to Trebizond.
		The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 42
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume2/nt420/065.htm (164 words)

	Colchis - LoveToKnow 1911
		We learn that women were buried, while the corpses of men were suspended on trees.
		The principal coast town was the Milesian colony of Dioscurias (Roman Sebastopolis; mod.
		Sukhum Kaleh), the ancient name being preserved in the modern C. Iskuria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Colchis (838 words)

	Dioscurias (Sukhum )
		From the time of Pliny (N.H. 6.14-16) and Arrian (Periplus ponti euxini 10.3) it was known as Sebastopolis; Aidan Liddle, in his translation of Arrian's Periplus, notes that the towers of Dioscurias have been found beneath the surface of the Black Sea, and speculates that the encroaching sea forced the inhabitants to relocate to Sebastopolis.
		The city and its surroundings were remarkable for the multitude of languages spoken in its bazaars.
		Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscurias, it continued to flourish until its conquest by Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus in the later second century BC.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Dioscurias.html (366 words)

	Art History Azerbeijan - History of Art Azerbeijan - Art History Azerbeijan in Ottoman Empire - Ottoman Art History
		The culture and ethnic character of both can be traced to the period of the breakup of the Hittite empire in the 12th century BC, and both were converted to Christianity early in the 4th century AD.
		Greek contact with the Caucasus region dates from the colonizing period between the 8th and the 6th centuries BC, when many settlements, such as the Milesian outpost of Dioscurias, were established on the Caucasian coasts of the Black Sea.
		In the mythology of the ancient Greeks, Prometheus was said to have been chained in the Caucasus Mountains, and Colchis was the setting for the Argonauts' search for the Golden Fleece.
	www.easterncorner.com /Georgia.htm (1119 words)

	Colchis information - Search.com
		The chief towns were Dioscurias or Dioscuris (under the Romans called Sebastopolis, now Sokhumi) on the sea-board of the Euxine, Sarapana (now Shorapani), Phasis (now Poti), Pityus (now Bichvinta), Apsaros (now Gonio), Surium (now Surami), Archaeopolis (now Nokalakevi), Macheiresis, and Cyta or Cutatisium (now Kutaisi), the traditional birthplace of Medea.
		Phasis and Dioscurias were the splendid Greek cities dominated by the mercantile oligarchies, sometimes being troubled by the Colchians from hinterland before seemingly assimilating totally.
		After the fall of the Persian Empire, significant part of Colchis locally known as Egrisi was annexed to the recently created Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli) in ca.
	www.search.com /reference/Colchis (1881 words)

	Sokhumi, Georgia, Pictures
		One of the oldest botanical gardens in the entire former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is located here.
		Greek merchants in the 6th century BC founded the colony of Dioscurias near what is now Sokhumi.
		The fortress of Sebastopolis was erected at the present-day city site in the 1st century AD, when the region was under the rule of the Roman Empire.
	www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Georgia/Sokhumi_city.html (383 words)

	Arrian - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		In A.D. 134 he drove the invading Alans out of Armenia in a campaign he describes in The Formation against the Alans.
		He also wrote a Tactical Manual for cavalry, and the Circumnavigation of the Black Sea, an account of the voyage he undertook from Trapezus to Dioscurias in 131-2.
		He retired or was recalled before the death of Hadrian in 138, and devoted the rest of his life to writing, living at Athens.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000001530,00.html (306 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sukhumi (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The city has several institutes affiliated with the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
		The Greek colony of Dioscurias was founded on the site of the city in the 6th cent.
		B.C. It was known as Sebastopolis under Rome and Byzantium.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sukhumi.html (246 words)

	Georgia:History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These coins circulated widely not only in the Black Sea littoral, but also in the Kingdom of Kartli (Iberia) and beyond its borders.
		The advanced economy and favorable geographic and natural conditions of Coichis attracted the Greeks; they colonized the Black Sea coast, setting up their settlements: Phasis (in the vicinity of present-day Poti), Gyenos (Ochamchiré), Dioscurias (Sukhumi), Anakopia (Akhali Atoni) and Pityus (Bichvinta).
		The influence, exerted on Kolkha by the vast Achaemenian Empire with its thriving commerce and subsequently the economic and commercial ties with other regions (Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, the northern Black Sea coast) accelerated in many ways the social-economic development of the region.
	www.cac-biodiversity.org /geo/geo_history.htm (14606 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.01
		Then follow three Greek colonies in modern Georgia: A. Gabelia, Dioscurias (1215-1265); G. Kvirkvelia, Gyenos (1267-1296); and O.D. Lordkipanidze, Phasis (1297-1329).
		BC the Bosporan kingdom with its capital Panticapaeum emerged, whose grain supply was vital for classical Athens.
		Equally important is the article on Dioscurias in modern Abkhazia, a region certainly not easily accessible for scholarship at the moment.
	tech1.dccs.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-09-01.html (1999 words)

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