On the Georgian hydronymy of the Black Sea (Materials for a history of the Black Sea)
On the Georgian hydronymy of the Black Sea (Materials for a history of the Black Sea)

Author(s): Inga Ghutidze
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Ancient World, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Lexis, Georgian literature, Non-European Languages
Published by: Сдружение „Транспонтика“
Keywords: Black Sea; hydronymy; Georgian ethnos
Summary/Abstract: Sources from the Antiquity and Middle Ages, fictional narratives, maps, and notes of travellers provide numerous and rich Georgian, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, French, Italian lexical units designating the Black Sea. Among them, names created by the Georgians or connected with the Georgian ethnos predominate: the Speri Sea, Georgian Sea and Sea of the Georgians, Caucasian Sea, Colchian Sea, Laz Sea, the Laz Garden, Megrelian Sea, Phasian Sea, the Sea of David… In this article we address the importance of the above-mentioned terms in the history of Black Sea and the Georgian ethnos, and the connection between the latter two. Arguments are given to oppose researchers’ assertions that Georgians have had only a distant relation to the Black Sea.

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