Saberdzneti

Saberdzneti (Georgian: საბერძნეთი [sabeɾdznetʰi]) was an ambiguous geographic term used in medieval and early modern Georgian historical sources to refer to Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire,^[1] while berdzeni (Georgian: ბერძენი) was a name for people who lived in those states.^[2] Later the name saberdzneti came to mean simply "Greece" and berdzeni "the Greek".^[3] Saberdzneti literally means "land of the berdzens" (i.e. "land of the Greeks.)^[4]