Colchians were the residents of Colchis, the westernmost part of the Republic of Georgia, bordering the Euxinus Pontus (Black Sea). Colchis, or Aea-Colchis (Georgian form - Kolkheti), in ancient geography district of Asia Minor, at the eastern extremity of the Black Sea, bounded on the N. by the Caucasus. ... Map of the Black Sea. ...
Colchis as a region also incorporates the vilayet of Rize in modern Turkey. Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province. ...
Colchians as an ethnic group are probably incorporated within the core ethnic populations of both Georgian and Turkish republics.
Nontheless, Colchian population origins are lost in history as far as ancient Egypt (according to Herodotus but this is highly debateable) and later ancient Greek (Milesian) colonisation of the Euxinus Pontus. Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Lower Nile Valley, between the First Cataract and the mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa 3200 BC until the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation, it is... Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. ... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... There are two peoples referred to as Milesians: In Irish mythology, the Milesians were the descendants of Míl Espáine, the final invaders of Ireland who defeated and displaced the semi-divine Tuatha Dé Danann. ...
Interbreeding between Greeks and local tribes of Colchis area (later Lazica) may have produced what would be called modern day Colchian ethnic group.
If the Colchians should take Medea, it would be to bring her back to Aea and to a bitter doom.
Alcinous went within; he raised up Medea from where she crouched on the floor of the palace, and he promised her that the Argonauts would be protected in his city.
The Argonauts and the Colchians were drawn up against each other, and the Colchians far out-numbered the wearied heroes.
Many of the Colchian ships passed by the mouth of the river, and went seeking the Argo toward the passage of the Symplegades.
They could not make their way between the islands that were filled with the Colchian soldiers, nor along the banks that were lined with men friendly to King Æetes.
It was then that they heard a loud wailing, and they knew that the Colchians had discovered that their prince had been slain.
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