• Thumbnail for Lusatia
    Lusatia (German: Lausitz [ˈlaʊ̯zɪt͡s] , Polish: Łużyce, Upper Sorbian: Łužica [ˈwuʒitsa], Lower Sorbian: Łužyca [ˈwuʒɨtsa], Czech: Lužice) is a historical...
    37 KB (3,884 words) - 22:39, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sorbs
    Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally...
    89 KB (10,138 words) - 21:38, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for March of Lusatia
    The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (German: Markgrafschaft Lausitz) was an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian...
    12 KB (1,179 words) - 03:26, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Upper Lusatia
    Along with Lower Lusatia to the north, it makes up the region of Lusatia, named after the Slavic Lusici tribe. Both parts of Lusatia are home to the West...
    42 KB (4,838 words) - 19:24, 12 October 2024
  • Dietrich II (c. 970 – 19 November 1034) was Margrave of Lusatia from 1032 to 1034, the first of the Wettin dynasty. Dietrich was the only son of Count...
    5 KB (428 words) - 21:52, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lower Lusatia
    Lower Lusatia (German: Niederlausitz; Lower Sorbian: Dolna Łužyca [ˈdɔlna ˈwuʒɨtsa]; Upper Sorbian: Delnja Łužica [ˈdɛlnʲa ˈwuʒitsa]; Polish: Łużyce Dolne;...
    18 KB (1,834 words) - 18:17, 12 October 2024
  • The Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (German: Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, EKBO) is a United...
    24 KB (2,642 words) - 07:05, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cottbus
    is the most populous city in Lusatia. Cottbus lies in the Sorbian settlement area (Serbski sedleński rum) of Lower Lusatia, and is the second-largest city...
    34 KB (2,247 words) - 16:52, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry III, Margrave of Meissen
    from the House of Wettin was Margrave of Meissen and last Margrave of Lusatia (as Henry IV) from 1221 until his death; from 1242 also Landgrave of Thuringia...
    10 KB (858 words) - 21:41, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lands of the Bohemian Crown
    Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia, as well as other territories throughout...
    26 KB (1,625 words) - 21:47, 12 October 2024
  • October 1075) was the Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (also called Lower Lusatia) from 1046 and a claimant for the title of Margrave of Meissen from 1069...
    3 KB (335 words) - 17:59, 15 April 2021
  • Thumbnail for Sorbian languages
    languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany. They are classified under the West Slavic branch...
    19 KB (1,476 words) - 21:06, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Lusatia
    make the Museum of West Lusatia into a centrepoint. Culturally and historically, West Lusatia corresponds to western Upper Lusatia, including part of the...
    3 KB (379 words) - 15:17, 20 October 2023
  • Emnilda (redirect from Emnilda of Lusatia)
    (975–1018). Most historians believe that Emnilda's father was a ruler over Lusatia and the Milceni lands which since 963 were part of the Saxon Eastern March...
    6 KB (562 words) - 08:28, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wends of Texas
    (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854. The term also refers to...
    15 KB (1,708 words) - 06:52, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brandenburg
    Republic. Southeastern Brandenburg contains part of the historical Lower Lusatia, and most of these localities have two official languages, German and Lower...
    47 KB (4,214 words) - 14:31, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Habsburg monarchy
    Upper and Lower Silesia (Austrian Silesia). Lusatia, was ceded to Saxony in 1635. Upper Lusatia Lower Lusatia The Kingdom of Hungary – two-thirds of the...
    39 KB (3,838 words) - 02:34, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radomierzyce, Zgorzelec County
    close to the German border. It is located in the historical region of Lusatia. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Zgorzelec, and 146...
    3 KB (159 words) - 23:29, 27 October 2024
  • Theodoric IV, Landgrave of Lusatia, also called in German Diezmann, or Dietrich III (c. 1260 – probably 10 December 1307 in Leipzig) was a member of the...
    4 KB (476 words) - 23:00, 20 September 2024
  • The Apostolic Prefecture of Lausitz (Lusatia) was a missionary pre-diocesan Latin Catholic jurisdiction in Lusatia (in German Lausitz}, today in the northeastern...
    4 KB (597 words) - 11:44, 30 May 2020
  • Thumbnail for Forst (Lausitz)
    (Łužyca) (Lower Sorbian, pronounced [ˈbarɕtɕ ˈwuʒɨtsa]) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. It lies east of Cottbus, on the Lusatian...
    9 KB (803 words) - 17:07, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Germany
    state of Schleswig-Holstein; the Sorbs, a Slavic population, are in the Lusatia region of Saxony and Brandenburg; the Roma and Sinti live throughout the...
    201 KB (16,377 words) - 12:46, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bohemia
    Austria), in the west by Bavaria (in Germany), and in the north by Saxony and Lusatia (in Germany and Poland, respectively), in the northeast by Silesia (in...
    53 KB (5,982 words) - 14:43, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poland
    Bolesław also expanded the realm considerably by seizing parts of German Lusatia, Czech Moravia, Upper Hungary, and southwestern regions of the Kievan Rus'...
    294 KB (23,952 words) - 13:11, 2 November 2024
  • the House of Wettin, was Margrave of Meissen from 1123 and Margrave of Lusatia from 1136 until his retirement in 1156. Initially a Saxon count, he became...
    10 KB (1,072 words) - 16:16, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saxony
    Lower Lusatia and part of the former Saxe-Wittenberg territory became part of the Province of Brandenburg and the northeastern part of Upper Lusatia became...
    75 KB (6,839 words) - 11:44, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Slavic languages
    addition, there are several language islands such as the Sorbian areas in Lusatia in Germany, and Slovak areas in Hungary and elsewhere. West Slavic is usually...
    12 KB (1,057 words) - 22:18, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spree (river)
    one in Eibau. The Spree then flows northwards through Upper and Lower Lusatia, where it crosses the border between Saxony and Brandenburg. After passing...
    8 KB (853 words) - 04:02, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lusatian dialects
    eastern Saxony. The name "Lusatian" derives from the term Lusatia, meaning the dialects of Lusatia. They are most closely related to Silesian German. Berlin...
    2 KB (178 words) - 16:21, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Saxony
    Reformation and historic core of the Electorate – as well as Lower Lusatia, most of Upper Lusatia, the Thuringian Circle [de] and the Neustadt Circle [de], among...
    30 KB (2,927 words) - 11:48, 21 October 2024