Imereti

• Location: Georgia
• Variant names: Colchis

A district and in former times a West Georgian kingdom with a name meaning 'Land on the Far Side' from imer 'beyond' and the place-name suffix -eti to indicate territory beyond the Surami Range from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. With Mingrelia, it constituted Colchis, an ancient region which, in Greek mythology, was the destination for Jason and the Argonauts. See Abkhazia.

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