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Sebbirozi

The Sebbirozi was a tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer (BG). It states that the Sebbirozi inhabit 90 settlements.

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The Sebbirozi was a tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer (BG). It states that the Sebbirozi inhabit 90 settlements (Sebbirozi habent civitates XC).1

Linguist Aleksander Brückner related Sebbirozi with another tribe from the source, Zabrozi, deriving from Proto-Polish *sebr (Old Polish siebr and siabr, or szabr), transcribing to what he believed as true names *sebracy and *siabracy.2 Historian Henryk Łowmiański and linguist Stanisław Rospond connected the ethnonym to the Severians,34 while the others to the Sabirs.5 More recently, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak also treats the Sebbirozi as one of the five Turkic tribes from the source, precisely the Sabirs.4 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.6

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  1. Christian Lübke (2004). Das östliche Europa. Siedler. p. 22. Die Sebbirozi haben 90 Burgen.
  2. Brückner, Aleksander (1928). Studja staropolskie: księga ku czci Aleksandra Brücknera (in Polish). Nakł. Krakowskiej spólki wydawniczej. pp. 54–55.
  3. Henryk Łowmiański (1986). Studia nad dziejami Słowiańszczyzny, Polski i Rusi w wiekach średnich. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewica w Poznaniu. pp. 161–169.
  4. Łuczyński, Michal (2017). ""Geograf Bawarski" — nowe odczytania" ["Bavarian Geographer" — New readings]. Polonica (in Polish). XXXVII (37): 74. doi:10.17651/POLON.37.9. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  5. Władysław Kowalenko, ed. (1975). Słownik starożytności słowiańskich: encyklopedyczny zarys kultury słowian od czasów najdawniejszych (in Polish). Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Słowianoznawstwa, Zkład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 178.
  6. Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2013). "Poselstwo ruskie w państwie niemieckim w roku 839: Kulisy śledztwa w świetle danych Geografa Bawarskiego". Slavia Orientalis (in Polish and English). 62 (1): 37, 39, 42.