Rioni
The Rioni (in Géorgien რიონი) is the principal river of the west of the Georgia. It takes its source in the the Caucasus, the area of Racha and runs towards the west to throw in the Black Sea in the north of the town of Poti. The town of Kutaisi, the old capital of the Colchide, is located on its banks.
Known old Greeks as a river Phase (Greek: Φάσις) for its lower course, and Rhéon for its higher course, it was quoted for the first time by Hésiode in its Théogonie; later, of the writers like Anaximandre, Apollonius of Rhodos (Argonautes), Virgile (Géorgiques) and Aelius Aristides considered that it marked the extreme Eastern limit of the navigable seas. Socrate, in Phèdes referred to the world known as being between the Pillars of Hercules and the Phase.
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