The Sebbirozi was a tribe mentioned by the 9th-century
Bavarian Geographer The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" ( la, Geographus Bavarus) is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing a list of the tribes in Central- Eastern Europe, headed ().
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(). It states that the Sebbirozi inhabit 90 settlements (Sebbirozi habent civitates XC).
Linguist
Aleksander Brückner
Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...
related ''Sebbirozi'' with another tribe from the source, ''
Zabrozi'', deriving from Proto-Polish ''*sebr'' (
Old Polish
The Old Polish language ( pl, język staropolski, staropolszczyzna) was a period in the history of the Polish language between the 10th and the 16th centuries. It was followed by the Middle Polish language.
The sources for the study of the Ol ...
''siebr'' and ''siabr'', or ''szabr''), transcribing to what he believed as true names ''*sebracy'' and ''*siabracy''.
Historian
Henryk Łowmiański
Henryk Łowmiański (August 22, 1898 near Ukmergė - September 4, 1984 in Poznań) was a Polish historian and academic who was an authority on the early history of the Slavic and Baltic people. A researcher of the ancient history of Poland, Lithu ...
and linguist
Stanisław Rospond
Stanisław Rospond (December 19, 1906 – October 16, 1982) was a Polish linguist, and professor at the University of Wroclaw
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connected the ethnonym to the
Severians,
while the others to the
Sabirs
The Sabirs (Savirs, Suars, Sawar, Sawirk among others; el, Σάβιροι) were nomadic people who lived in the north of the Caucasus beginning in the late-5th -7th century, on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, in the Kuban area, and possibly ...
.
More recently, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak also treats the Sebbirozi as one of the five Turkic tribes from the source, precisely the Sabirs.
Already in 1958 Łowmiański considered etymological and geographical relation between the ''Sebbirozi'', ''Attorozi'', ''Uuillerozi'', ''Zabrozi'', ''Chozirozi'' due to unusual non-Slavic, yet Turkic suffix ''-rozi''. The ''Attorozi'' themselves are described as ''populus ferocissimus''.
References
{{Bavarian Geographer
Slavic tribes