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Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (/ ˈ k ɒ l k ɪ s /; [16] Ancient Greek: Κολχίς) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi (Georgian: ეგრისი) located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.
Gonio (Georgian: გონიოს ციხე, previously called Apsarus or Apsaros (Ancient Greek: Ἄψαρος) [1] and Apsyrtus or Apsyrtos (Ἄψυρτος) [2]) is a Roman fortification in Adjara, Georgia, on the Black Sea, 15 km south of Batumi, at the mouth of the Chorokhi river. The village sits 4 km north of the Turkish border.
History of Georgia in four volumes, vol. I - History of Georgia from ancient times to the 4th century AD. Tbilisi: National Academy of Sciences of Georgia. ISBN 978-9941-19-405-4. Preud'homme, Nicolas Joseph. À la porte des mondes. Histoire de l'Ibérie du Caucase, Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2024, ISBN 978-2356136084. Rapp, Stephen H. (2014).
A fragment of the 1907 map of the ancient Caucasus showing the Colchis region. Phasis (Ancient Greek: Φᾶσις; Georgian: ფაზისი, pazisi) was an ancient and early medieval city on the eastern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th or 6th century BC as a colony of the Milesian Greeks at the mouth of the eponymous river in Colchis.
Pitsunda or Bichvinta (Georgian: ბიჭვინთა, [bitʃʼʷintʰa] ⓘ; Abkhaz: Пицунда; Russian: Пицунда) is a resort town in the Gagra District of Abkhazia/Georgia. [note 1] Founded by Greek colonists in the 5th century BC, Pitsunda became an important political and religious centre of the region in the antiquity and ...
Remains of fortifications and temples, locally produced and imported Greek pottery, and sophisticated local goldwork—now on display at the Vani Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi—indicate that Vani was a vibrant urban settlement from the 8th century down to the mid-1st century BC.
The nation of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო sakartvelo) was first unified as a kingdom under the Bagrationi dynasty by the King Bagrat III of Georgia in the early 11th century, arising from several successor states of the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia.