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Most parts of this article are definitely wrong (contradicting archaeology and other sources). I am even afraid that the Severans are largely a pure speculation. I hope someone can change the article correspondingly.
It is explained at Talk:Severia. Also, because AndriyK often moves by cut'n'paste against policy (to circumvent consensus at WP:RM), the talk often doesn't get forwarded with an article and would be lost if I didn't revert. --Irpen 10:20, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
The main argument is that it is a Ukrainian name and some users whant to impose this into English. --Irpen 11:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
This might be how the Romans called their settlements - Servia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.43.122 (talk) 15:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Logically, what is the probability of an indo-european people aka white people to be called after or related in any shape or form to the word "black"? It doesn't make sense. Can somebody elaborate on this hypothesis because with the information given it is very confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.38.136 (talk) 10:30, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Many tribes on the steppe were named black. Color black usually meant "northern". I think it is more than an accident but sevordi means "black lads" in Armenian and it was related with sabirs. In this article is also stated Severians could be Sabirs according to the Bavarian Geographer, but the slavic editors of the article will never start this article with that - they rather start it with pure linguistic speculations to find a slavic meaning and even named the whole section as "ethnonym" however nobody knows for sure where the name comes from but seemingly they know it is an ethnonym (a name a people give themselves). Zoltan_Bereczki (talk) 06:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC) Zoltan_Bereczki (talk) 06:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
According to "The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century", John Van Antwerp Fineр p. 69, cited a s a source in the article: The Bulgars found a variety of Slavic tribes in the regions they occupied. Theophanes says the Bulgars became masters of the Slavs (i.e., conquered them). The Seven tribes were subjected, and the Severi, (a Slavic tribe) were moved to the east, to the shore of the Black sea. The Severi seem to have retained at least semi-independence. I.e. the Bulgars found these Slavs in Moesia and they found there the Seven tribes and the Severi. 46.16.193.70 (talk) 11:12, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
The current article text contains:
"The Severians or Severyans or Siverians (Russian: Северяне; Ukrainian: Сiверяни, romanized: Siveriany; Belarusian: Севяране) were a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River and the Danube River."
The Dnieper River lies east of the Danube River. Therefore, what is east of the Dnieper River is automatically east of the Danube river. Why then, I wonder, does the text make reference to the Danube River?
Or is the following intended:
"The Severians or Severyans or Siverians (Russian: Северяне; Ukrainian: Сiверяни, romanized: Siveriany; Belarusian: Севяране) were a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the Danube River as well as other areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River."?Redav (talk) 20:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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