Abstract
By the 1st millennium BC the Diakhi (Taokhi) and the Qolha (Colchis) tribal groups had coalesced and developed bronze casting techniques. A two-state confederation emerged as early as the 6th century BC, with Colchis (Egrisi) in the west and Kartli (Iberia) in the east. The Greeks established Black Sea colonies from the 6th century BC, including Phasis (present-day Poti), Gyenos (Ochamchire) and Dioscuras (Sukhumi). Parnavaz I ruled a united Kartli (or Georgia) from his citadel of Armaztsikhe from c. 302–237 BC.
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Brook, S., Claws of the Crab: Georgia and Armenia in Crisis. London, 1992
Gachechiladze, R., The New Georgia: Space, Society, Politics. London, 1995
Nasmyth, P., Georgia: a Rebel in the Caucasus. London, 1992
Suny, R. G., The Making of the Georgian Nation. 2nd ed. Indiana Univ. Press, 1994
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Turner, B. (2007). Georgia. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74024-6_173
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