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Lusatia

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Lusatia , Ger. Lausitz, Pol. Luzyce, region of E Germany and SW Poland. It extends N from the Lusatian Mts., at the Czech border, and W from the Oder River. The hilly and fertile southern section is known as Upper Lusatia, the sandy and forested northern part as Lower Lusatia. The Lusatian Neisse separates E Germany and SW Poland. Forestry, farming, and stock raising are the chief occupations. There are lignite mines, textile mills, and glass-making factories. Bautzen, Cottbus, Görlitz, Zagan, and Zittau are the main towns. The Lusatians are descended from the... Read more

Lusatia
Lusatia (Lausitz), Germany‐Poland A historic region named...people, a subgroup of the Sorbs (also known as Wends or Lusatians). Their name came from luz ‘meadow’ (in...Taken by the Poles at the beginning of the 11th century, Lusatia passed to the Bohemian crown in 1368 and was ceded ... Read more

Wends
...60,000) of Brandenburg and Saxony, E Germany, in Lusatia . They speak Lusatian (also known as Sorbic or Wendish), a West Slavic language with two main dialects: Upper Lusatian, nearer to Czech, and Lower Lusatian, nearer to... Read more

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	"Ich bin jetzt hier und das ist gut so". Lebenswelten von Flüchtlingen und Vertriebenen in der Lausitz ; ...changes on the Serbian language area in Lusatia at the end of the second World War and...the social changes that took place in Lusatia after 1945 and the direct impact they...difference was even more extreme in Lower Lusatia, where the decline of Lower Sorbian started... Read more
	Sorabistik in Deutschland. Eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Bilanz aus funf Jahrhunderten ; ...Bautzen/Budysin: Domowina-Verlag, 1996. 216 pp. Paper. Speakers of Sorbian, a West Slavic language-group in an area known as "Lusatia" (Lausitz) in the states of Saxony and Brandenburg, constitute no more than 0.08% of the population of Germany. But as the... Read more
	Zeszyty Luzyckie ; ...contact area of eastern Upper and Lower Lusatia (since 1945 a part of Poland); Marcin...other things, promoted the autonomy of Lusatia in the years 1945-1950. One of the profiles...who, after an initial visit to Lower Lusatia in 1875, spent some time every year in... Read more
	Legend in the library ; ...1490, was one of the greatest in Europe. His realm too was considerable, extending in the north almost to Berlin, including Lusatia, Bohemia, Silesia, and Austria, then running down the Adriatic coast to embrace Belgrade. Hungary was one of the great powers... Read more
	`The Weather in Berlin' by Ward Just; Houghton Mifflin ($24). ; ...story of an encounter between some young German men and a trio of girls, Sorbs, a dispossessed minority from the German area of Lusatia. The movie became a cult classic, a Cries and Whispers -like film that captures a culture and an epoch. But 30 years later... Read more
	Diktatur and Diaspora: Das Bistum Meißen, 1932-1951 ; ...boundaries (parts of the diocese were in Thuringia); and it contained a considerable Slavic minority, the Serbians of Upper Lusatia. Being the smaller of the two Christian Churches in Saxony helped the Church as the state's animosity largely was focused on... Read more
	De paseo entre dulces, musica y artesanias.(De Viaje) ; ...Tiene artesanías tradicionales que incluyen las de las montañas de Erz, ropa de color índigo, cerámica de Lusatia, pan de jengibre de Pulsnitz, estrellas de Adviento de Herrnhut y cristal soplado de Lauscha. Aquí se encuentra la pir... Read more
	The beginnings of Slavic settlement east of the river Elbe. ; ...Slavic placenames reflects of course Slavic-speaking populations--as it is supported by modern Slavic-speaking minorities in Lusatia (eastern Brandenburg) and the Hannoversches Wendland (Lower Saxony)--but as late as in the thirteenth century such names were... Read more
	The Prague Slav Congress, 1848: Slavic Identities ; ...Kunze and Andreas Moritsch discuss the Lusatian Serbs and Slovenes, respectively. Both...difficult political situation of the Serbs of Lusatia who, either as Saxons or future citizens...disloyal "Pan-Slavism." The reference to the Lusatian Serbs in the "Manifesto" of the Slav... Read more
	Sorapis. Zes iwk 1 (2002) ; ...The third section contains two papers on history. Sylwija Jurkec examines the problem of ethnogeny (racial research) in Upper Lusatia in the Third Reich, while Fabian Kaulfurst discusses Sorbian fishing in historic and prehistoric times as an important livelihood... Read more

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