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Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece. [23] It was also described as a land rich with gold, iron, timber and honey that would export its resources mostly to ancient Hellenic city-states. [24] Colchis likely had a diverse population.
The Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands (Georgian: კოლხეთის ტროპიკული ტყეები და ჭაობები, romanized: k'olkhetis t'rop'ik'uli t'q'eebi da ch'aobebi) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Georgia, which comprises parts of the Colchis Lowland along some 80 km of western Georgia's Black Sea coastline.
Kolkheti National Park was once part of the tropical and partly subtropical zone of the Tertiary period that stretched over the continent of Eurasia.Around 2000 BC, the first Georgian state, Kolkheti, better known as "Colchis," was created here and was the place in which the first Georgian coinage, "Kolkhuri Tetri", was minted. [6]
The Euxine–Colchic broadleaf forests is an ecoregion of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests along the southern shore of the Black Sea. [3] The ecoregion extends along the thin coastal strip from the southeastern corner of Bulgaria in the west, across the northern coast of Turkey, to Georgia in the east, where it wraps around the eastern end of the Black Sea.
'Golden-haired pelt') is the fleece of the golden-woolled, [a] winged ram, Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it to Zeus. Phrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and the Argonauts stole it with the help of Medea, Aeëtes' daughter. The fleece ...
northwest shores of Colchis Strabo. Sanigs: western Abkhazia Pliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea. Tzanni: modern day Rize and Artvin provinces Arrian, Procopius.
Mythological kings of Colchis (3 P) Pages in category "Mythological Colchians" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Colchis Lowland is located in western Georgia A portion of the Colchis coastal plain near the town of Poti. The Colchis Lowland (Georgian: კოლხეთის დაბლობი, K’olkhetis dablobi) is a geographical area in Georgia, which consists of a coastal lowland plain of the eastern Black Sea.