Diauehi

Diauehi or Diaokhi, Daiaeni (Georgian: დიაოხი) was a coalition of tribes, or kingdoms, located in northeastern Anatolia, that was formed in the 12th century BC in the post-Hittite period. It is mentioned in the Urartian inscriptions.It is usually (though not always) identified with Daiaeni of the Yonjalu inscription of the Assyria king Tiglath-Pileser I’s third year (1118 BC). Diauehi is a possible locus of proto-Kartvelian; it has been described as an "important tribal formation of possible proto-Georgians" by Ronald Grigor Suny (1994).

Diauehi

Diauehi or Diaokhi, Daiaeni (Georgian: დიაოხი) was a coalition of tribes, or kingdoms, located in northeastern Anatolia, that was formed in the 12th century BC in the post-Hittite period. It is mentioned in the Urartian inscriptions.It is usually (though not always) identified with Daiaeni of the Yonjalu inscription of the Assyria king Tiglath-Pileser I’s third year (1118 BC). Diauehi is a possible locus of proto-Kartvelian; it has been described as an "important tribal formation of possible proto-Georgians" by Ronald Grigor Suny (1994).