title: Kingdom of colchis – the first georgian state
abstract: The first state formations on the territory of Georgia started to rise at least from the end of the 2nd Millennia BC. The oldest Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions about Daiaeni (Diaukhi of Urartian sources) and Kilkhi (Kulkha) give us&nbsp; information about the state system in Southern and South-Western Georgia. The scholars have more and more certainty regarding the strong organization of those political formations. The Urartian cuneiform inscription of the 8th c. BC and the Greek mythological t