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Harbours, towns and monuments now beneath the sea or a lake.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Milesian Greek / Colchian / Roman
Milesian colony 6th c. BCE now –5 to –9 m under Sukhumi Bay — 400-m Hellenistic mole and Roman fortress half under sea promenade.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Colchian Early Iron to Hellenistic (c. 6th – 2nd c. BCE) · Colchian / East Greek Milesian
Colchian dunes village and Greek emporion — timber quay –1 to –3 m in surf and 300-grave cemetery 120 m reclaimed by sea since 5th c. BCE.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE Greek emporion – 14th c. patriarchate) · Milesian Greek / Roman / Byzantine Colchian–Abkhaz
Northernmost Black Sea Roman fortress — east wall and mole now –0.5 to –4 m on Pitsunda lagoon-sea spit.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Colchian Iron Age to Byzantine (6th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Colchian / Milesian Greek
Royal Colchian Aeëtes' capital — ashlar quay –2 to –5 m under modern Poti port fill at Rioni mouth.