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FASSIS (Ancient city) KOLCHIS
Lazi (Lhasoi, Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Plin. vi. 4; Lazai, Ptol. v.
10. § 5), one among the many tribes which composed the indigenous population which
clustered round the great range of the Caucasus. This people, whose original seats
were, according to Procopius (B. G. iv. 2), on the N. side of the river Phasis,
gave their name, in later times, to the country which was known to the Greeks
and Romans as Colchis, but which henceforth was called Regio Lazic. They are frequently
mentioned in the Byzantine writers; the first time that they appear in history
was A.D. 456, during the reign of the emperor Marcian, who was successful against
their king Gobazes. (Prisc. Exc. de Leg. Rom. p. 71; comp. Le Beau, Bas Empire,
vol. vi. p. 385.) The Lazic war, the contest of Justinian and Chosroes on the
banks of the Phasis, has been minutely described by contemporary historians. (Procop.
B. P. ii. 15, 17, 28, 29, 30, B. G. iv. 7 - 16, Agath. ii. iii. iv. pp. 55 - 132,
141 ; Menand. Protect. Exc. de Leg. Gent. pp. 99, 101, 133 - 147; comp. Gibbon,
c. xlii.; Le Beau, vol. ix. pp. 44, 133, 209 - 220, 312 - 53.) In the Atlas (pt.
i. pl. xiv.) to Dubois de Montpereux (Voyage Autour du Caucase, comp. vol. ii.
pp. 73 - 132) will be found a map of the theatre of this war. In A.D. 520, or
512 according to the era of Theophanes, the Lazi were converted to Christianity
(Gibbon, l. c.; Neander, Gesch. der Christl. Religion, vol. iii. p. 236), and,
under the name of Lazians, are now spread through the country near the SE. angle
of the Euxine from Guriel to the neighbourhood of Trebizond. Their language, belonging
to the Indo-Germanic family, appears to contain remains of the ancient Colchian
idiom. (Cosmos, vol. ii. note 201, trans.; Prichard, Physical Hist. of Mankind,
vol. iv. p. 263.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Machelones, Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Anon. p. 15), a subdivision of the Colchian
tribes situated to the S. of the Phasis. Anchialus, prince of this people, as
well as of the Heniochi, submitted to Trajan. (Dion Cass. lxviii. 19; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 116.)
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