Sorbs
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Sorbs, also known as Lusatian Serbs, is an indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally
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
Lower Sorbian language
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Lower Sorbian is a West Slavic minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg.
Bilingual signpost on the embankment in Cottbus
Building of the Lower Sorbian Gymnasium in Cottbus
Bilingual sign at the administrative office in Lübben
Street sign in Spremberg showing both German and Sorbian names”