Anyone who has read "Between Two Iberians" or the article "Mysterious Lubes" would note that if such a Kartvelo-speaking nation really existed, there would be at least one toponym with the root "lub-" and the Kartvelian toponymic suffix "-et".
Meet "Loubet", between Cannes and Nice. Exactly in the place where Strabo located the Saluvii tribe. It is clear that this is not the name of the tribe, but the name of the Lubes' country. There are also a lot of other kartvelisms here, starting with the same Cannes (Le Cannet) and ending with Liguria (Luguri).
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