Archaeopolis
Ἀρχαιόπολις
Archaeopolis (Ἀρχαιόπολις), a city of Colchis, on the borders of Iberia, in a very strong position on a rock near the river Phasis. At the time of the Byzantine empire, it was the capital of the Lazic kingdom. (Procop. B. G. 4.13; Agath. 3.5, 8,17.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.