Mengrelia

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Mengrelia

  1. Obsolete spelling of Mingrelia.
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. [], London: [] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, [], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 291:
      Mengrelia (ſometime Colchis) adioyneth to the Euxine ſea