Rex wrote
> OK.. Looking at it again for my own benefit: It seems the
people
the Greeks found there, looking at the river fed plain south of the
Caucasus, were called Colchians or Kolkhida, as possibly the largest
identifiable group before Urartu, Media then Armenia and Georgia.
It is interesting tracing the names of people from this area.
Firstly there were the Khatti (pre-Hittites), living on the
Cappadocian plain, from the Persian Khaputaka. Along the coast north
of the Khatti were the Kaska, and to the east of those people were the
Kholkida. in the South West in Cilicia, was Kizzuwadna. The
alternative name of Urartu was Khaldi, and to the south of them were
the Khassiti (Kassites). And then there were the Khurri (Hurrians).
This seems to be saying something quite significant. Are we here
dealing with different tribes of one particular group of peoples,
that
have left their names as toponyms or vague memories of ancient Pre IE
peoples? Are these the original people who discovered
agriculture? What do you others think?
Regards
John