The Lusatian Sorbs. An estimated 60,000 people form the Sorbian people today. They only live in Germany, in the region of Upper Lusatia (Free State of Saxony) as Upper Sorbs and in Lower Lusatia (Brandenburg) as Lower Sorbs/Wends. The Sorbian people, consisting of Slavic tribes originally coming from the Carpathian Mountains, moved around 1,500 ...

The Lusatian Sorbs have created an organisation of their own, consisting of cultural societies, which for some years after the War were represented by a People's Council (Volksrat), and at present by the " Domowina " League, which is also their central organ. Its existence is gravely endangered by the principles and political

18/07/2005 · National costume of Lusatian Sorbs as worn in the northern part of Lusatia The history of the Sorbs In the 6./7. century slavonic tribes settled in the area between Elbe/Saale and Oder/Queiss in the course of the people migration. In the following centuries they came under fixed German state rule, among them also the tribes of the Milzener ...

21/08/2013 · The area of settlement of the Sorbs – the region of Lusatia – stretches from Upper Lusatia in Saxony to Middle and Northern Lusatia in Brandenburg. For that reason, they are normally called the Lusatian Sorbs/Lausitzer Sorben/Łužiscy Serbja. There are approximately 60,000 Sorbs in this region nowadays.

The state parliaments of Saxony -- home to some 40,000 Upper Lusatian Sorbs -- and Brandenburg -- home to about 20,000 Lower Sorbs -- subsequently passed several laws guaranteeing the protection and promotion of the Sorbian People. The Union of Lusatian Sorbs is an umbrella organization, known as Domowina.

Lusatia (German: Lausitz, Polish: Łużyce, Upper Sorbian: Łužica, Lower Sorbian: Łužyca, Czech: Lužice, Latin: Lusatia, rarely also referred to as Sorbia) is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland.Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Black Elster rivers in the west, and is located within the German states of ...

15/06/2021 · The Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority that have lived in modern-day Germany for roughly 1,500 years (Credit: Sean Galliup/Getty Images) Today there are an estimated 60,000 Sorbs in Germany. A ...

19/01/2012 · Today the region of White Serbia is known as Sorbia (Sorbian language: Serbja). It is inhabited by the Sorbs, or Lusatian Serbs, who are a slavic tribe descended from Polabian slavs (Milceni and Lusatii). They adopted the name Sorbs in the 18th century from the area they live in.