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Poti , city (1989 pop. 50,922), W Georgia, on the Black Sea at the mouth of the Rion River. It is a port that ships manganese (from Chiatura), corn, lumber, and wine. The region around Poti is the swampy Colchis lowland. The city was known as Phasis in the 5th cent. BC, when it was a Greek colony. It later became a Turkish fortress and was taken by the Russians in 1828.

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Poti (P'ot'i), Georgia Phasis, Kale Fas The present name is ultimately derived from the ancient Greek settlement of Phasis, or Phasi, which took its name from the River Phasis (now the Rioni) which had its source in the Phasis Mountains. The second, Turkish, name also comes from this source with the additional kale ‘fortress’ which was built by the Ottoman Turks in 1578 on the site. Phasis is said to have given its name to the ‘pheasant’, a bird stolen by Jason and the Argonauts when searching for the Golden Fleece and introduced into Europe.

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