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Rioni River
The Rioni or Rion River ((グルジア語:რიონი) ''Rioni'', (ギリシア語:Φᾶσις) ''Phasis'') is the main river of western Georgia. It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea, entering it north of the city of Poti (near ancient Phasis). The city of Kutaisi, once the ancient city of Colchis, lies on its banks.
==History==
Known to the ancient Greeks as the Phasis River, Rioni was first mentioned by Hesiod in his ''Theogony'' (l.340); later writers like Apollonius Rhodius (''Argonautica'' 2.12.61), Virgil (''Georgics'' 4.367) and Aelius Aristides (''Ad Romam'' 82) considered it the easternmost limit of the navigable seas. Socrates, in ''Phaedo'' 109a referred to the portion of the world he knew of as between the Pillars of Hercules and the River Phasis, while Herodotus considered Rioni as a boundary between Europe and Asia〔
The term "pheasant" and the scientific name ''Phasianus colchicus'' are derived from "Phasis" and "Colchis", as this was said to be the region from which the common pheasant was introduced to Europe〔''Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Revision, September 2009〕 in ancient times (the ring-necked pheasants seen in the present day were later introduced from East Asia; see Common pheasant for details). It is said that "the failure of Kolkhis to emerge as a strong kingdom or to be maintained as a province of Rome has been blamed on the pestilential climate of the Phasis Valley, a situation remarked upon by travelers down to modern times, when the swamps were finally drained.〔 Robert H. Hewsen, Armenia: A historical Atlas,2001,page 38〕".
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