Kingdom of Colchis

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An ancient polity located on the coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia that emerged through the consolidation of local tribes. It became a Roman client during the Mithridatic Wars.

Establishment

January 1299 BC: In the XIII century BC the Kingdom of Colchis was formed as a result of the constant consolidation of the tribes that inhabited modern-day Georgia.

Chronology

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1. Wars of Cyrus the Great

Were a series of expansionistic military campaigns by the first Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great.

January 549 BC: The city of Colchis was invaded by Scythians and Cimmerians roughly between 720 and 730 BC. and the kingdom disintegrated into various statelets. Around the middle of the 6th century B.C. these fell under Achaemenid rule.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 749 BC: The Colchians, an ancient kingdom located in present-day Georgia, absorbed part of the Diauehi people around 750 BC. Diauehi was a tribal confederation in the southern Caucasus region.

January 749 BC: The Colchians, led by King Egrisi, came to absorb part of the Diauehi people around 750 BC. This marked the expansion of the Kingdom of Colchis into the territory of Diauehi, a region located in present-day Georgia.

January 731 BC: During the reign of Sarduri II (c. 766/4-735/2 BC), Urartu continued its rise by conquering the country of Qulhi, which is believed to correspond to Colchis. This expansion further solidified Urartu's power and influence in the region.

January 236 BC: Iberian kin Saurmag, Colchis regained its independence.

January 189 BC: The defeat of the Seleucid King Antiochos III by the Romans at Magnesia Sipylus in 190 BC redraws the political map of the Middle East. Under the terms of the Peace of Apamea (188 BC), Antiochus III could no longer intervene north of the Taurus, creating a political vacuum which was immediately filled by new independent kingdoms. From 190 BC. BC, the satrap of Armenia Artaxias, with whom the Carthaginian Hannibal took refuge, founded on his advice the city of Artaxates (south of present-day Yerevan) on the banks of the Araxes, and makes it the capital of a kingdom of Armenia of which he proclaims himself king, with the blessing of the Romans.