(Greek mythology) a region on the Black Sea south of the Caucasus that was the site of an ancient country where (according to Greek mythology) Jason sought the Golden Fleece

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolchis (in Georgian — კოლხეთი, Kolkheti — and in Greek — Κολχίς, kŏl´kĬs) was a nearly triangular ancient Georgian region Marc Van de Mieroop, A History of the Ancient near East, C. 3000–323 BC, p 265 and kingdom in the eastern Georgia (Caucasus region) which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgian nation. Charles Burney and David Marshal Lang, The Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus, p. 38 Oliver Wardrop, The Kingdom Of Georgia: Travel In A Land Of Women, Wine And Song (Kegan Paul Library of History and Archaeology) The Kingdom of Colchis as an early Georgian state contributed significantly in developing the medieval Georgian statehood after its unification with the Kingdom of Iberia-Kartli David Braund, Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562, Oxford University Press, USA (September 8, 1994) W.E.D.