Between Burgos and Leon there is a small town of Sahagún/Saagún. According to the laws of Kartvelian morphology, the word means "place of Agun" ("h" here serves as an artificial separator between the prefix ending in "a" and the root beginning with "a"). And the h-less "Saagun" also exists.
"Agun" with a high degree of probability means the name "Aguna", the deity of winemaking in Western Georgia. Meanwhile the region of Sahagun is considered the cradle of Spanish winemaking:
"... The history of wine is very strongly tied to the city of Sahagun. Moreover, we can say that we are talking about one of the cradles of winemaking in Spain...".
Now it is worth remembering that in Crimea there was a similar Kartvelian toponym with the same "Sa-" construction and with the name of the god as the root - Satarhe. In addition, in Spain there is another city with a very similar name - the famous Sagunt near Valencia, about which you can read in Wikipedia that "until the 19th century, the population was mainly wine-making...".
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