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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Another part of the White Serbs did not migrate southwards, but remained in the Elbe region. Descendants of these White Serbs with still preserved ethnic identity are the present day Lusatian Serbs ( Sorbs ), who still live in the Lusatia (Lužica, Lausitz) region of eastern Germany .
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 ...
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.
Other Sorbs • Czech Americans • Slovak Americans • Kashubian Americans • Polish Americans • Texan Silesians • German Americans Sorbian Americans ( Upper Sorbian : Serbscy Američenjo , Lower Sorbian : Serbske Amerikanarje ) or Wendish Americans are Americans of Sorb / Wend descent.