This excerpt is from a 1987 article in “Slovene Studies” by Jakov Bačić of Astoria, Queens, New York City – all of which you can peruse here. Bačić seems to have developed this idea while writing his PhD dissertation at Columbia University (see Jakov Bacic “The emergence of the Sklabenoi (Slavs), their arrival on the Balkan Peninsula, and the role of the Avars in these events: Revised concepts in a new perspective”).
However, oddly, he seems not to have been aware of the fact that his additional step of converting a Solava > Sava would be unnecessary if one were to look for an actual, uncorrupted Solava. Or, as we think, Souava.
And where more perfect to look but where the ancient River Suevus used to flow… Of course, all of this could just be one frothy coincidence.
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