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The Sorbs are first mentioned in the 6th or 7th century. In their languages, the other Slavs call them the "Lusatian Serbs", and the Sorbs call the Serbs "the south Sorbs". [7] The name "Lusatia" was originally applied only to Lower Lusatia. [6] It is generally considered that their ethnonym *Sŕbъ (plur.
The Sorbs, also known as Serbs or White Serbs in Serbian historiography, were an Early Slavic tribe settled between the Saale-Elbe valley and the Lusatian Neisse (in present-day Saxony and Thuringia). They were part of the Polabian Slavs and Wends group of Early Slavs.
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 , who still live in the Lusatia (Lužica, Lausitz) region of eastern Germany.
Historically, the languages have also been known as Wendish (named after the Wends, the earliest Slavic people in modern Poland and Germany) or Lusatian. [1] Their collective ISO 639 -2 code is wen .
Lusatian Serbian may refer to: Lusatian Serbian languages (Sorbian languages) Lusatian Serbs (Sorbs) Lusatian Serbia (Sorbia This page was last edited on 17 ...
The Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape (German: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft, Upper Sorbian: Hornjołužiska hola a hatowa krajina) is the region richest in ponds in Germany, and together with the Lower Lusatian Pond Landscape forms the biggest pond landscape in Central Europe.
The “All-Serb Assembly” with a slogan “One People, One Gathering” included thousands of Bosnian Serbs and those who traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, from neighboring countries ...
In the 6th century CE, West Slavic tribes, called Lusatian Serbians, settled in the modern day region of Saxony and Southern Brandenburg. A lot of place names in Saxony are of Sorbian providence, p.e., Dresden, Leipzig, Meißen, Chemnitz or Torgau. [8] From the 10th century on, German Kings and Emperors started conquering the area.