Machelones
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Machelones
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The Machelones were a Colchian tribe located to the far south of the Phasis. There are several references to them in Classical sources. This group may be the Machorones of Pliny who placed them between the Ophis and Prytanis rivers. The 1st century AD writer Lucian also comments about the Machlyai and their ruler, but the account seems to be entirely fictional. Ptolemy, in the early 2nd century AD, mentions the town of Mechlessos on the border of Colchis, but adds nothing substantive. His contem
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Ancient Colchian tribe in western Georgia
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2021-11-03T07:48:00Z
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