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The ethnonym "Sorbs" (Serbja, Serby) derives from the medieval ethnic groups called "Sorbs" (Surbi, Sorabi). The original ethnonym, Srbi, was retained by the Sorbs and Serbs in the Balkans. [6] By the 6th century, Slavs occupied the area west of the Oder formerly inhabited by Germanic peoples. [6] The Sorbs are first mentioned in the 6th or 7th ...
In the 7th century CE, the tribe joined Samo's Empire, and some Sorbs emigrated from their homeland (White Serbia) to Southeast Europe. The tribe is last mentioned in the late-10th century, but its descendants can be found among Germanized people of Saxony, among the Slavic ethnic group of the Sorbs in Lusatia , and among the Serbs of ...
The Sorbian settlement area (Lower Sorbian: Serbski sedleński rum [ˈsɛrpskʲi ˈsɛdlɛnʲskʲi ˈrum], Upper Sorbian: Serbski sydlenski rum [ˈsɛʁpskʲi ˈsɨdlɛnskʲi ˈʁum], German: Sorbisches Siedlungsgebiet; in Brandenburg officially Siedlungsgebiet der Sorben/Wenden) commonly makes reference to the area in the east of Saxony and the South of Brandenburg in which the West Slavic ...
Rakotz Bridge. Lusatia (/ l uː ˈ s eɪ ʃ i ə,-ʃ ə /; German: Lausitz [ˈlaʊzɪts] ⓘ; Polish: Łużyce [wuˈʐɨt͡sɛ] ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Łužica; Lower Sorbian: Łužyca [ˈwuʒɨtsa]; Czech: Lužice) is a historical region in Central Europe, territorially split between Germany and modern-day Poland.
The tribes became gradually Germanized and assimilated in the following centuries; the Sorbs are the only descendants of the Polabian Slavs to have retained their identity and culture. The Polabian language is now extinct. However, the two Sorbian languages are spoken by approximately 22,000–30,000 inhabitants [3] of the region.
Dervan's Sorbian province. White Serbia (Serbian: Бела Србија, Bela Srbija), also called Boiki (Ancient Greek: Βοΐκι, romanized: Boḯki; Serbian: Бојка, Bojka), is the name applied to the assumed homeland of the White Serbs (Serbian: Бели Срби, Beli Srbi), a tribal subgroup of Wends, a mixed and the westernmost group of Early Slavs.
Prior to the Magyar invasion of Pannonia in the 890s, the West Slavic polity of Great Moravia spanned much of Central Europe between what is now Eastern Germany and Western Romania. In the high medieval period, the West Slavic tribes were again pushed to the east by the incipient German Ostsiedlung , decisively so following the Wendish Crusade ...
For people living in the medieval Northern Holy Roman Empire and its precursors, especially for the Saxons, a Wend (Wende) was a Slav living in the area west of the River Oder, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian Slav tribes (mentioned above) in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further ...