Lusatia
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Lusatia, otherwise known as Sorbia, is a region in Central Europe, territorially split between Germany and Poland. Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Blac
A view of the Lusatian Highlands
Bautzen (Budyšin), capital of Upper Lusatia
Cottbus (Chóśebuz), capital of Lower Lusatia
Lübben (Spreewald) (Lubin (Błota)), former capital of Lower Lusatia
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
Lusatia
…southern part, and Lower Lusatia, the flat northern part. The areas east and west along the Spree in the German part of Lusatia are home to the Slavic Sorbs, one of Germany's four officially recognized indigenous ethnic minorities. The Upper Sorbs inhabit Saxon Upper Lusatia, and the Lower Sorbs Brandenburgian…
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