The Primary Chronicle mentions Serbs as 'Serebi', which, as it has been already explained within Between Two Iberias project, is a Kartvelian plural form of 'seri', which altogether means 'hills'.
Here is what Constantine Porphyrogennetos writes about Serbia:
'...modern Serbia, so called, 'country of zahlumi'...'.
The word 'zahlum' is Slav and in fact is a combination 'za + hlum' - 'behind the hill'.
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