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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 ...
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 ...
SORBS ("Spam and Open Relay Blocking System") was a list of e-mail servers suspected of sending or relaying spam (a DNS Blackhole List). It had been augmented with complementary lists that include various other classes of hosts, allowing for customized email rejection by its users.
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 ...
In 1950, the Sorbs obtained language and cultural autonomy within the then–East German state of Saxony. Lusatian schools and magazines were launched and the Domowina association was revived, although under increasing political control of the ruling Communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
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.