id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-777 Colchis - Wikipedia .html text/html 5012 588 66 In pre-Hellenistic Greco-Roman geography, Colchis[a] (Ancient Greek: Κολχίς) was an exonym for the Georgian polity[b] of Egrisi[c] (Georgian: ეგრისი) located on the coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia. Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece.[3] 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.[4] Colchis was populated by Colchians, an early Kartvelian-speaking tribe ancestral to the contemporary western Georgians, namely Svans and Zans.[5][6] Its geography is mostly assigned to what is now the western part of Georgia and encompasses the present-day Georgian provinces of Samegrelo, Imereti, Guria, Adjara, Abkhazia, Svaneti, Racha; modern Russia's Sochi and Tuapse districts; and present-day Turkey's Artvin, Rize, and Trabzon provinces.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-777.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-777.txt