Colchians

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

Related Topics:
Colchis - Georgia

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

Related Topics:
Rize - 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.

Related Topics:
Herodotus - Milesian

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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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