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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At about a population of 60,000 (30,000 of which speak Sorbian), the Sorbs are the smallest Slavic-speaking group in Europe. This is a list of notable Sorbs . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The local dialect was heavily influenced by surrounding speakers of German and English. The German terms "Wends" (Wenden) and "Wendish" (wendisch/Wendisch) once denoted "Slav(ic)" generally; [citation needed] they are today mostly replaced by "Sorbs" (Sorben) and "Sorbian" (sorbisch/Sorbisch) with reference to Sorbian communities in Germany.
The Sorbian March (Latin: limes Sorabicus, German: Sorbenmark, Upper Sorbian: Serbske hriwny, Lower Sorbian: Serbske marki) was a frontier district on the eastern border of East Francia in the 9th through 11th centuries. It was composed of several counties bordering the Sorbs. The Sorbian March seems to have comprised the eastern part of Thuringia.
Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic group; Sorbus, a genus of trees; Sorbus domestica, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus; Sorbus aucuparia, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus; Sorbus torminalis, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus; Sorb, the fruit of the true service tree, a.k.a. sorb tree (Sorbus domestica)
During the time of Nazi Germany, it hosted the Gestapo, [4] [5] and it later became a residential building in the German Democratic Republic. [5] After the original location, the Serbski dom , was destroyed in 1945, the salthouse was determined to be a worthy accommodation for the Sorbian Museum in 1976 [ 6 ] in spite of it not having a ...