Colchians
Colchians
(Russian, Kolkhi), a collective name of the ancient Georgian tribes that occupied the territory of the southeastern and eastern Black Sea region. The ancient Greeks first began to refer to western Georgia as Colchis, after the Colchians, who lived there in the early part of the first millennium B.C. The Colchians were originally joined together in the early class political formation of Colcha (Culcha), which is mentioned in the Urartian inscriptions of the eighth century B.C.; the Colchian Kingdom was created in the sixth century B.C.