Kuji ( ka, ქუჯი, tr) (''
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
'' 4th century BC) was a ruler and
eristavi
''Eristavi'' (; literally, "head of the nation") was a Georgia (country), Georgian feudal office, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine ''strategos'' and normally translated into English language, English as "prince" or less comm ...
of
Colchis
In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi ( ka, ეგრისი) located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.
Its population, the ...
. During his reign his castle of
Nokalakevi was built. Kuji aided
Pharnavaz I of Iberia against the tyrannical ruler
Azo. Pharnavaz subsequently deposed and killed Azo and Kuji recognized his authority giving him the Colchian throne.
According to ''
The Georgian Chronicles'':
Kuji eventually married Pharnavaz's sister. This marriage would produce the progeny of
Kartam of Colchis.
[Georgian Chronicles, ed 32, ln 10-12]
References
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Georgian Chronicles, Life of Kartli, chronicle
Kings of Colchis
4th-century BC monarchs
3rd-century BC monarchs in Europe