In the beginning of the 1960s, Levan Kursua (1887-1969), a resident of the seaside village of Ergeta (Anaklia) in Mingrelia (Colchis), retold a Georgian legend about Colchian (Lazica) and Iberian warriors who, as part of their training, used a style of swimming where their hands and feet were bound firmly.
Opsites, dates of reign unknown, likely some time before 541
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The first Christian king of Lazica was Gubazes I; in the 5th century, Christianity was made the official religion of Lazica.
It dates from the 4th-5th century, from the times of the historical entity of Lazica.
Forming the easternmost area of the Pontic Alps, Chaldia was bounded to the north by the Black Sea, to the east by Lazica, the westernmost part of Caucasian Iberia, to the south by Erzinjan,Erzurum and what the East Romans or Byzantines called Armenia Minor, and to the west by the western half of Pontus.