Sorbs (tribe)
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The Sorbs or Sorabi or Surbi were a medieval Early Slavic tribe, who settled between Saale and Elbe, and as a tribal confederation a region encompassing much of present-day Saxony and Thuringia. They
The first mention of Sorbs in the Chronicle of Fredegar, under 631
Sorbs and their sub-tribes, Luzici, Milceni and Daleminci, seen in the southwest corner of the early West Slavic tribal area, by W. Fix, 1869
Sorbian tribes between the 7th and 11th century, by Wilhelm Bogusławski, 1861
Dervan's Sorbian polity
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
Sorbs (tribe)
…during the Ostsiedlung. Populations which maintained their Slavic identity and use of local Slavic languages came to constitute the contemporary Sorbs of Lusatia. Early Sorbs are mentioned between the 6th and 10th century as Cervetiis (Servetiis), gentis (S)urbiorum, Suurbi, Sorabi, Soraborum, Sorabos…
Traditional female costume of Lower Lusatia (Spreewald)
The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia