Episode 4 – Origins of Colchis and Iberia – The History of Saqartvelo Georgia
Hi everyone, thank you for being so patient with this episode. Today, we’ll be talking about the origins of Colchis and Iberia, and how the kingdoms got started up, as well as little tidbits of information that wouldn’t fit anywhere else really. We’ll be talking about a man with a Golden Touch in Asia Minor, pre-Achaemenid rule in the region (they’re the next episode), and the Greek trading towns, and their relations with the Colchians and other proto-Georgian tribes.
Tribal map 
Kingdom/state map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Colchian_tribes#/media/File:Ethnic_Caucasia-en.png
and
Deu, basiert auf Andrew Anderson’s File:Earlycaucasus655.jpg und Don-Kun’s File:Caucasus 300 map alt de.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgian_States_Colchis_and_Iberia_%28600-150BC%29-en.svg/1920px-Georgian_States_Colchis_and_Iberia_%28600-150BC%29-en.svg.png
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Bibliography:
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield
The Making of the Georgian Nation by Ronald Suny
Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia 550 BC – AD 562 by David Braund
The History of Saqartvelo Georgia 
