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New Colchis also referred as "Republic of Colchis", named after the Kingdom of Colchis is a Lazo-Mingrel state in West Asia which hold territory in Transcaucasus and the Pontus Mountains. The idea of seperating the Georgian identity into west and east accrued in 1810 after the annexation of the Imeretian Kingdom by the Russian Empire, seperate schools were formed for western and eastern dialects of the Georgian language and propoganda was made to alienate Eastern Georgians to Westerners. This progress was named "Mingrelisation". Only in 1834 people considerd Mingrelians and other Western Georgians as a seperate ethnicity from Georgian.

In April 1918, Mingrelian Bolsheviks took arms in Sokhumi and parts of Gulripschi against the Georgian government, alongside with Abkhazian Bolsheviks and the support of the Red Army. Rebellions were crushed on May 1919 and peace was restored. During the Turkish campaign of the Red Army's Invasion of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, Georgian forces led by Giorgi Mazniashvili ambushed Turkish forces after capturing Batumi and pushed into Trebizond and were able to defend it till they got captured by the Red Army.

After the Red Army captured Georgia, Lenin created the "West Georgian ASSR" due to a request made by Joseph Jugashvili, renamed in October 1929 to "Colchis ASSR" after the recent discovery of the ancient Kingdom of Colchis. It had the same "Mingrelisation" progress as the Russian Empire in order to seperate Western and Eastern Georgians entirely. In 1991 after Georgia was the first to leave the Soviet Union and the Colchis ASSR was disolved, protests and clashes were formed against the Georgian government as they believed they were Kartvelized. In 1992 after Zviad Gamsakhurdia was assassinated by a KGB officer, the Republic of Colchis was declared.