PTOLEMY'S TOPONYMS IN KARTVELIAN SURNAMES: CONCLUSION

Of approximately 4,000 names in Ptolemy's Atlas about 10% are present in modern Kartvelian surnames as roots. However, of these 4000 about half are hellenized and romanized place names. We do not take them into account. Thus, the percentage of kartvelisms in the world toponymy of the II century AD is up to 20%. If we remove half of obviously non-Kartvelian Celtic and Germanic names, and focus on only Mediterranean region, then the percentage of names that found their way into Kartvelian surnames is close to 50%. And that's  under total domination of Indo-European languages in the world! What the world was from the Kartvelian point of view prior to the Indo-European conquest, we can only imagine...