Places
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Dioscurias
A Milesian colony of the sixth century BC on the coast of Colchis, on the site of present-day Sukhumi: Strabo's market of seventy peoples, the refuge of Mithrid...
Nokalakevi (Archaeopolis)
Tsikhegoji, capital of the Kingdom of Egrisi (Lazica), the Archaeopolis of the Byzantines, in a loop of the Tekhuri: three walls, a citadel, royal palaces, bath...
Petra Fortress
The Byzantine fortified town of Petra on rocky seaside hills in the village of Tsikhisdziri, 8 kilometres south of Kobuleti: Petra Pia Justiniana, founded in 53...
Tsebelda Fortress (Tsibilium)
The "Tzibile" of Procopius of Caesarea: the chief fortress of late antique and early medieval Apsilia on two cliffs rising 400 metres above the Kodori gorge, wi...
Vani Archaeological Site and Museum
The best-studied town site of the Colchian hinterland on Akhvlediani Hill: a temple city of the eighth to first centuries BC, perhaps Pliny's Surium or Strabo's...