VIDEO: Laz 4000 year history, lazs are South Caucasian and relative people to Georgians.

Colchis is present day: Rize, artvin, Achara, Guria, Samegrelo, Imereti, Abkhazeti, Svaneti, Racha and mesxeti.
Colchis was inhabited by laz Georgian megrelian and Svan people since ancient times and its history goes back to 4000 years. historians mentinoned that Greek and Celtic people have been migrating to Colchis since ancient times because it was developed in early times and well known for wine, gold and metal making.
now above mentioned laz and Megrel people speak same language with a little differences and Svan people have their language but all this lanugages belong to Georgian langauge family group and are very similar to Georgian lanugage, it is believed Megrelian svan and Georgian languages were one but seperated from eachother and evolved a little bit differently in different regions. every region has its beauty and character.