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Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja; Lower Sorbian: Serby; German: Sorben pronounced [ˈzɔʁbn̩] ⓘ; Czech: Lužičtí Srbové; Polish: Serbołużyczanie; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs [5] and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
Dervan's Sorbian province. According to the old theorization by Joachim Herrmann, the Serbian tribe characterized by Rüssen-type of Leipzig group pottery arrived from the Middle Danube in the beginning of the 7th century and settled between Saale and Elbe river, but only since the 10th century their ethnonym was transferred to the Luzici, Milceni and other tribes of Sukow-Dziedzice and Tornow ...
After the East German Revolution of 1989, the state of Saxony was reestablished in 1990. Lower Lusatia remained with Brandenburg, from 1952 until 1990 in the Bezirk of Cottbus. In 1950, the Sorbs obtained language and cultural autonomy within the then–East German state of Saxony.
Baldur von Schirach (1907-1974) – Nazi German politician and convicted war criminal; Kito Lorenc (1938–2017) – Writer, lyric poet, and translator; Kurt Krjeńc (1907–1978) – East German politician and Chairman of Domowina; Marie Simon (1824–1877) – nurse; Erwin Strittmatter (1912–1994) Stanislaw Tillich (b. 1959) Mina Witkojc ...
However, the Sorbs, the descendants of the Milceni and the Lusici, have retained their identity within Lusatia, a region divided between the German states of Brandenburg and Saxony. The Slavic language was spoken by the descendants of the Drevani in the area of the lower Elbe until the early 18th century.
In colloquial German, it is called Sorbenland (Land of the Sorbs); [1] before 1945 also – sometimes pejoratively – called Wendei. [2] This area was reduced constantly during the centuries due to assimilation, Germanization and strip mining lignite. Additionally, the identification as Sorb is free under federal and state law and cannot be ...
In 2008, Sorbs protested three kinds of pressures against Sorbs: "(1.) the destruction of Sorbian and German-Sorbian villages as a result of lignite mining; (2.) the cuts in the network of Sorbian schools in Saxony; (3.) the reduction of financial resources for the Sorbian institutions by central government."
It represents the interests of Sorbian people and is the continual successor of the previous Domowina League of the Lusatian Sorbs (German: Domowina Bund Lausitzer Sorben, Upper Sorbian: Zwjazk Łužiskich Serbow, Lower Sorbian: Zwězk Łužyskich Serbow). The organization has been a member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities since 1990.