Anyone who has carefully examined Ptolemy’s map of Spain will have noticed a vertically written name near Valencia, identifying a local tribe called Ludetani. This same toponym likely survives in the name of the Valencian town near Castellón—Lludient (or simply Ludien in Spanish).
Ludetani conceals the Kartvelian toponym Ludeti, which, in turn, translates to "land of Ludi" or, if broken down morphemically using Georgian, "land of beer." According to Strabo, in Lusitania (which is nearby), people drank nothing but beer.
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