Note: Refers to the ancient region at the eastern end of the Black Sea, south of the Caucasus in the west of modern Georgia; early inhabitants were described by Herodotus as "black Egyptians"; was colonized by Milesian Greeks; went to Achaemenid Persia in the 6th century BCE; united with Lazica in the 4th century CE and with Abasgia in the late 9th century CE; was mythological home of Medea and destination of the Argonauts.
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