LIBURNI

In ancient times, the northern Adriatic coast of Croatia was inhabited by a tribe called "Liburni". The word is a pure Kartvelian toponym, decomposed morpheme by morpheme as follows: "lib + ur + n + i". Considering that at least Antonio Stella writes the word "Liburni" with "y" - "Lyburni", we should perceive the root as "lub", followed by the usual Georgian adjectival suffix "-uri" ("luburi"), followed, in turn, by the Old Kartvelian plural suffix, and everything predictably ends with the Kartvelian nominative case ending.

Thus, "Luburni" literally translates as "The Lubes". And now we should recall Strabo's retelling of the story of Callimachus about how the Colchians, in pursuit of Jason, who stole Medea from them, "lowered their oars in the Illyrian Sea" and founded a city there, "called Poli in their language." This is the Croatian city of Pula, the location of which coincides exactly with the settlement area of ​​the Liburnian tribe on Ptolemy's map.