Colchians

Residents of Colchis, the westernmost part of the Republic of Georgia, bordering the Euxinus Pontus (Black Sea).

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Colchis as a region also incorporates the vilayet of Rize in modern Turkey.

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Colchians as an ethnic group are probably incorporated within the core ethnic populations of both Georgian and Turkish republics.

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Nontheless, Colchian population origins are lost in history as far as faraonic Egypt (according to Herodotus) and later Greek (Milesian) colonisation of the Euxinus Pontus.

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Interbreeding between Greeks and local tribes of Colchis area (later Lazica) may have produced what would be called modern day Colchian ethnic group.

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Colchis: In ancient geography, Colchis (sometimes spelled also as Kolchis) (Greek: ??????, kŏl?kĬs; Georgian: კოლხეთი, Kolkheti) was a nearly triangular district in Caucasus. Now the western part of Georgia, it was in Greek mythology the home of Aeetes and ...

Rize: Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province (41? 1' 15N, 40? 31' 19E)....

Turkey: The Republic of Turkey or Turkey (Turkish: T?rkiye), is a bicontinental country that is located mainly in the Middle East (Southwest Asia) and partly in Southeast Europe; The Anatolian peninsula comprises most(97%) of its territory, and is situated between the Black Sea on the north and the Mediter...