Zabrozi 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 (). The name "Bavarian Geographer" was ...

(). It states that the Zabrozi inhabit 212 settlements. __NOTOC__

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The Zabrozi are mentioned in BG after the Vuillerozi and before the

Znetalici Znetalici ( cz, Snětaliči) was a Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer. They are mentioned as inhabiting 74 ''civitates'' (settlements). While some scholars put them somewhere in Russia, between the Carpathians and the Dan ...

. Their name is dual-lexeme, made up of ''Zab'' and suffix ''-rozi'', which is also found in the

Sebbirozi The Sebbirozi was a tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer (). It states that the Sebbirozi inhabit 90 settlements (Sebbirozi habent civitates XC). Linguist Aleksander Brückner related ''Sebbirozi'' with another tribe from the sou ...

, Attorozi, Vuillerozi and Chozirozi. According to the Czechoslovakian academy, their name is unclear. P. Šafárik identified the name as ''Zaprozi'' and connected it to

Zaporozhia Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populatio ...

, a region on the

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...

. A. Králiček identified it as ''Zabrce'', a name he claimed was known since antiquity in the

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

that point to the Dacians, or ''Zabrodce'', by etymology connected to Slavic ''brod''. Some connect it to

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 ...

(or Sawars).

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{{Bavarian Geographer Medieval ethnic groups of Europe