Calau
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Calau is a small town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. It is situated 14 km south of Lübbenau, and 27 km west of Cottbus. Calau is also called the ho
Town hall of Calau
Calau in 1758
Parish church
Memorial for Joachim Gottschalk
Sorbs
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Sorbs, also known as Lusatian Serbs, are a West Slavic ethnic group indigenous to parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languag
Calau
…From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany. There are only a few people with Sorbian roots living in Calau today, although the Sorbs were quite a large minority in 1843 with about 30.8 percent of the overall population. In following…
Traditional female costume of Lower Lusatia (Spreewald)
The Chronicle of Fredegar mentions a Latin: Deruanus dux gente surbiorum, que ex genere Sclauinoru erant, lit. 'Dervan, Duke of the people of the Surbs, who were of the race of the Sclavs'
7th-century Sorbian Duchy of Dervan
The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia