The Serb Name in the Caucasus Region



The Republic of Georgia:
Serbaisi:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=41.9500&long=43.3000&name=Serbaisi&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=1692
Serebryannoye:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=43.3667&long=40.8000&name=Serebryannoye&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=2437
Serebryanoye:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=43.3283&long=40.8539&name=Serebryanoye&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=2372
Serebryanyy:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=43.3667&long=40.8000&name=Serebryanyy&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=2437

Armenia:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=43.3667&long=40.8000&name=Serebryanyy&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=2437

Azerbaijan:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=40.3956&long=49.9736&name=Serebovski&cty=Azerbaijan&alt=403
Sererbovskiy:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=40.3956&long=49.9736&name=Serebrovskiy&cty=Azerbaijan&alt=403
Seri-abad:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=39.3736&long=48.5767&name=Seri%2dabad&cty=Azerbaijan&alt=3
Ser-abad:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=39.3783&long=48.5975&name=Ser%2dAbad&cty=Azerbaijan&alt=3


There are also countless Serb toponyms (too many to list) found all over Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, Germany to attest to the the migration of Serbs from the Caucasus to northern Europe and to their present location in the Balkans.

At first we find the Serb name in the above mentioned locations in the Caucasus. Then we find the Serb name breaking into two directions with one branch shifting NORTHWEST out of the Caucasus region into southern Russia towards the Ukraine and Central Europe. We find the Serb name moving across the Ukraine and along the Carpathians into Central Europe. It is appropriate to note that the in the third century Roman emperor Licinius refered to the Carpathians as 'Serb mountains'.

We find another row of Serb toponyms moving NORTHEAST from the Caucasus towards the base of the Ural mountains. At the base of the Ural mountains we find a cluster of Serb toponyms. We can conclude that this branch of Serbs settled there for a period of time. Then we notice Serb toponyms moving in two directions. One going EASTBOUND deep into Asia moving along the Kama river and the other going WESTBOUND following the river Volga into Ukraine Poland. It is likely that this divergent movement happened because of a disagreement between the Serb tribal leaders of this tribe of 'Ural Serbs'. This faction which moved WESTBOUND eventually met up with the first group of Serbs which immediately left the Caucasus for Central Europe, as the direction of toponyms shows. This land eventually became to be called 'White Serbia' by Konstantine Porphyrogenitus.

We can conclude based on the distance of toponyms one from the other that they are the most dense in the modern Czech Republic, Western Ukraine, and southern Poland as well as Eastern Germany. This may have been the size of the the 'White Serbia' which Porphyrogenitus spoke of. It would have been even by modern standards a large European nation. South of it was 'White Croatia' as we can tell by Croatian toponyms in Slovak and Hungarian lands.

Having migrated from the southern Caucasus to the north, as we can see by the shift in the toponyms northward, we see other Serb toponyms moving eastward towards the Ural mountains and the Kama river and we even find Serb toponyms along Russia's border with China. It would appear that when the Serbs left the Caucasus region they split into two groups moving in seperate directions. One moved into the southern Ukraine and along the Carpathians into Northern Europe the other eastbound to the base of the Ural mountains. We see a string of Serb toponyms from there moving westbound along the Volga and another string on the same longituide moving eastbound deep into Siberia. Along the coast of the Sea of Japan there are two towns named 'Serbia' and two other towns named after the Serb toponym Rashka (a name the Serbs took to them wherever they went; it is distinctly Serb and NOT SLavic, it might have meant river, this would explain the many HYDRONYMS derived from 'Rash' in Poland, Germany and Russia where Old Serbs settled).

Serb toponyms aren't thrown around Europe and Asia randomly, they are often in rows and lines one after the other, moving in a particular direction:

1. northwestt from the Caucasus along present the Crpathians into Central Europe.
2. northeast from the Caucasus to the Urals into Siberia.
3. from the Urals westbound to Central Europe.


It is wisest to conclude that diverging SERB toponyms mark the path various Serb tribes took while they were migrating from the Caucasus to Europe and Asia. Interestingly the migrations are not in accordance to Slavic migrations, thus implying that Serbs were overlords to the Slavs and migrated and existed vis-a-vis the Slavs.

Here are the locations of Serb toponyms in alphabetical order:
Sarbai 58N 49E 152 498
Sarbaktuy 51N 116E 557 1827
Sarbala 53N 87E 232 761
Sarbala 60N 43E 111 364
Sarbalin 54N 74E 103 337
Sarbalyk 55N 76E 110 360
Sarbayevo 55N 45E 249 816
Sarbay 51N 57E 412 1351
Sarbay 52N 56E 182 597
Sarbay 53N 51E 198 649
Sarbay 54N 56E 145 475
Sarbay 58N 49E 152 498
Sarba 55N 76E 110 360
Sarbiya 52N 57E 696 2283
Serbilovo 56N 40E 157 515
Serbinka 51N 43E 181 593
Serbinka 52N 36E 246 807
Serbino-Vedenyapina 51N 43E 175 574
Serbino-Vedenyapino 51N 43E 175 574
Serbinovka 54N 73E 128 419
Serbinovskiy 49N 40E 183 600
Serbino 53N 40E 160 524
Serbino 58N 28E 55 180
Serbin 45N 38E 16 52
Serboyan 55N 83E 155 508
Serbilovo 56N 40E 157 515
Serbinka 51N 43E 181 593
Serbinka 52N 36E 246 807
Serbino-Vedenyapina 51N 43E 175 574
Serbino-Vedenyapino 51N 43E 175 574
Serbinovka 54N 73E 128 419
Serbinovskiy 49N 40E 183 600
Serbino 53N 40E 160 524
Serbino 58N 28E 55 180
Serbin 45N 38E 16 52
Serbiya 51N 37E 209 685
Serbiya 52N 57E 696 2283
Serbiya 64N 142E 564 1850
Serbolovo 57N 30E 94 308
Sorbala 60N 43E 111 364
Sirbishina 57N 60E 218 715
Sirbishino 57N 60E 218 715
Srbce 49N 17E 328 1076
Srbce 49N 16E 397 1302
Srbce 50N 15E 194 636
Srbetsch 50N 13E 330 1082
Srbeˇ 50N 13E 330 1082
Srbice 49N 13E 487 1597
Srbice 49N 13E 433 1420
Srbice 49N 14E 495 1624
Srbice 50N 13E 207 679
Srbsko 49N 14E 270 885
Srbsko 50N 15E 317 1040
Srbská Kamenice 50N 14E 318 1043
Srbská 50N 15E 354 1161
Srby 49N 13E 407 1335
Srby 49N 12E 399 1309
Srby 50N 14E 426 1397
Srbín 49N 14E 439 1440


Here are the locations of RASH toponyms in order of appearance:
Georgia:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=42.5464&long=44.9228&name=Roshka&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=5935
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=42.5692&long=44.8258&name=Roshka%2dKhorkhi%2c%20Gora&cty=Georgia%2c%20Republic%20of&alt=9767
From here, the Serbs move to two directions one NORTHEAST towards the Urals, the other NORTHWEST towards Central and Eastern Europe.

Russia:
(behind the Urals)
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=59.9500&long=61.5833&name=Rashkina&cty=Russia&alt=131
Here is where there is a cluster of Serb toponyms as well. This must have been where this Serb tribe settled for a period of time. But then, one branch moved EASTBOUND deep into Siberia... to the coast of the Sea of Japan...
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=43.6667&long=131.7167&name=Rashkino&cty=Russia&alt=456
Here we find two cities named Serbia and two named after Rashka.

Ukraine:
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=52.1053&long=34.0717&name=Rashkovichi&cty=Ukraine&alt=620
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi lat=48.5000&long=26.3000&name=Rashkov&cty=Ukraine&alt=856
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi? lat=48.7333&long=25.4167&name=Rashkov&cty=Ukraine&alt=1003
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=48.7333&long=25.4167&name=Rashkuv&cty=Ukraine&alt=1003
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.2167&long=33.9000&name=Rashovka&cty=Ukraine&alt=321
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.7500&long=29.6000&name=Raska&cty=Ukraine&alt=452

Poland:
We see a row of Serb toponyms throughout northern Poland and Russia. It is likely that when the Volga Serbs split into two seperate tribes moving in two seperate directions, the row of Serb toponyms moving through northern Russia and Poland and Ukraine may have been the route taken by this westbound group od Volga Serbs to meet up wit the the first group of Serbs which immediately moved from the Caucasus into Central Europe.
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=51.4167&long=19.3833&name=Rasy&cty=Poland&alt=734
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.1167&long=18.3000&name=Raszczyce&cty=Poland&alt=826
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi? lat=51.7500&long=18.7500&name=Raszelki&cty=Poland&alt=396
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=52.4667&long=20.2667&name=Raszewo&cty=Poland&alt=406
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=51.7167&long=17.1500&name=Raszewy&cty=Poland&alt=364
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=52.0833&long=17.6000&name=Raszewy&cty=Poland&alt=269
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=51.7167&long=17.7333&name=Raszk%f3wek&cty=Poland&alt=456
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.4833&long=16.5000&name=Raszk%f3w&cty=Poland&alt=1522
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.5833&long=19.9333&name=Raszk%f3w&cty=Poland&alt=974
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=51.7167&long=17.7333&name=Raszk%f3w&cty=Poland&alt=456
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.3833&long=18.1667&name=Raszowa&cty=Poland&alt=590
http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.6000&long=18.1167&name=Raszowa&cty=Poland&alt=577

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