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13th century BC–164 BC Colchis and Iberia Capital Aia Languages
Georgian Government Monarchy Historical era Iron age  - 
Established c. 13th century BC  -  Conquest of Diauehi 750 BC
 -  Disestablished 164 BC Today part of  Georgia Colchis and
Iberia in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC Central and southern
parts of Colchis, 3rd to 1st centuries BC - 1st century AD
Colchis between the Black and Caspian Seas. London, 1529  In
Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (/ˈkɒlkɪs/; Georgian: კოლხეთი
Kolkheti; Greek Κολχίς Kolkhis, presumably from Kartvelian
ḳolkheti or ḳolkha) was the name for a region in the Southern
Caucasus. Colchis was located on the eastern coast of the Black
Sea, centered on present-day western Georgia. Around the 1st
centuries BC and AD the land south of the Greater Caucasus and
north of the Lesser Caucasus was divided between Kolchis in the
west, Caucasian Iberia in the center and Caucasi