PTOLEMY'S TOPONYMS AS GEORGIAN SURNAMES' ROOTS: INTRO

Of approximately 4,000 names from Ptolemy's Atlas, about 10% are present in modern Georgian surnames as roots. However, about half of these 4,000 toponyms are Hellenized and Latinized names, which should not be taken into account. Thus, the percentage of kartvelianisms in world toponymy in the second century increases to 20. If we remove another half of the clearly non-Kartvelian Celtic and Germanic names and focus only on the Mediterranean region, the percentage of Kartvelian toponyms increases to 50. And that's within the context of the presumably complete dominance of Indo-European languages ​​in the world at that time. What the world was like from the Kartvelian point of view in the era before the Indo-European conquest, one can only imagine...