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{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}} ...ius never returned to his homeland but instead settled among the [[Colchis|Colchians]] and named them Asterians. There Asterius fathered [[Miletus (mythology)|M ...

...eetes as a historical person, writes that this was "a local name among the Colchians".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Braund|first1=David|title=Georgia in Antiquity: A H [[Category:Mythological kings of Colchis]] ...

...|quote=Colchis was mainly inhabited by Megrelian-Laz speaking tribes. Then Colchians conquered the land of the Svans.}}</ref><br>[[Svan language|Svan]]<ref>{{ci ...]]: "one of the most important elements in the modern Georgian nation, the Colchians were probably established in the Caucasus by the [[Middle Bronze Age]]."<re ...

{{about|the Greek mythological figure|the play by Euripides|Medea (play){{!}}''Medea'' (play)|other uses|M ...hus]] and [[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius]] describe colonies founded by Colchians originally sent out in pursuit of her" observes Nita Krevans, "Medea as fou ...

...his men to deploy the line extremely thin so as to overlap the enemy. The Colchians divided their army to check the Greek deployment, opening a gap in their li Xenophon plays upon the post-Persian-war propagandistic paradigm of using mythological imagery to represent the [[Greco-Persian Wars|Greco-Persian conflict]]. Exa ...

...in Pindar. This became the commonly used designation in Greek, although in mythological contexts the "true" name {{lang|grc-Latn|Póntos Áxeinos}} remained favored. The Black Sea was sailed by [[Hittites]], [[Carians]], [[Colchis|Colchians]], [[Armenians]], [[Thracians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], [[Achaemenid Em ...