Serboi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Serboi is an ethnonym recorded in Greco-Roman ethnography. It appeared in the 1st-century works of the historian Tacitus (ca. 50 AD) and geographer Pliny (Plinius) (69-75 AD), and also in the 2nd century in the Geography of Ptolemy (book 5, 9.21) to designate a tribe dwelling in Sarmatia, probably on the Lower Volga River. The name then also appears in two Byzantine works dating from the 10th century: De administrando imperio (32.1-16) and the Theophanes Continuatus (288.17-20), usually in the same context where the Croatians, Zachlumians, and other peoples of Pannonia and Dalmatia were mentioned. It was by no means uncommon to refer to obscure peoples of Eastern Europe by the sound-alike names recorded in classical sources (e.g., Rugi instead of Rus).