Original Appearances in Caucasus
Pliny the Younger in his work Plinii Caecilii Secundi Historia naturalis from the first century AD (69-75) mentioned people named Serbi, who lived near the Cimmerians, presumably on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
In the 2nd century (around 175 AD), the Egyptian scientist Claudius Ptolemy mentioned in his Geography people named Serboi or Sirboi, who presumably lived behind the Caucasus, in the hinterland of the Caspian Sea. Present-day Astrakhan.
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"Serbi" located near the mouth of the Volga, based on Greek literary sources, in a map printed by an unknown publisher in London, ca 1770
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People with name Sirbi near the estuary of the river Volga, on a Ptolemaic map revised and printed by Sebastian Münster in 1552.
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People with name Sirbi near the estuary of the river Volga, on a Ptolemaic map published by Girolamo Porro in Venice, 1598
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People with the name Сербьи (Серби, Serbi) near the estuary of the river Volga, according to the map from the book of Jovan Rajić, printed in Vienna in 1794.
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