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Mango, Cyril (2002). "A Journey Round the Coast of the Black Sea in the Ninth
Century".
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of the 5th century as a Black Sea locale otherwise known as Palaia Lazike ("Old
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Nicopsia on a modern map of the
Kingdom of Georgia early in the 13th century.
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Leonard (1982). "Topics in Byzantine Historical Geography".
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461:(1950). "Two Georgian Maps of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century".
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