Serboi
Sign in to savethumb|"Serbi" located near the mouth of the Volga in a map depicting Sarmatia Asiatica, 1770 The Serboi or Serbi () and Sirbi () was a tribe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography as living in the North Caucasus, believed by scholars to have been Sarmatian.
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thumb|"Serbi" located near the mouth of the Volga in a map depicting Sarmatia Asiatica, 1770 The Serboi or Serbi () and Sirbi () was a tribe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography as living in the North Caucasus, believed by scholars to have been Sarmatian.
==Etymology== Kazimierz Moszyński derived the name from Indo-European *ser-, *serv-, meaning "guard, protect" (cognate of Latin servus), and originally, it may have meant "guardians of animals", that is "shepherds". Similar toponyms were mentioned earlier farther away.