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Historical region
Lower Lusatia
Niederlausitz, Dolna Łužyca, Delnja Łužica, Łużyce Dolne, Dolní Lužice
Historical region
From top, left to right: Old Market Square in Cottbus
Market Square in Luckau
Holy Heart of Jesus Church in Żary
Street view in Lübben
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Lower Lusatia within the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
Countries
Germany Poland
Largest city
Cottbus (Chóśebuz)
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Highways
Lower Lusatia (German: Niederlausitz; Lower Sorbian: Dolna Łužyca[ˈdɔlnaˈwuʒɨtsa]; Upper Sorbian: Delnja Łužica[ˈdɛlnʲaˈwuʒitsa]; Polish: Łużyce Dolne; Czech: Dolní Lužice) is a historical region in Central Europe, stretching from the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. Like adjacent Upper Lusatia in the south, Lower Lusatia is a settlement area of the West Slavic Sorbs whose endangered Lower Sorbian language is related to Upper Sorbian and Polish.
indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally...
the margraviate roughly corresponded with the present-day region of LowerLusatia. It originally stretched from the border of the Saxon stem duchy along...
is the most populous city in Lusatia. Cottbus lies in the Sorbian settlement area (Serbski sedleński rum) of LowerLusatia, and is the second-largest city...
Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and the Margraviate of LowerLusatia, as well as other territories throughout...
Lower Sorbian (endonym: dolnoserbšćina) is a West Slavic minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of LowerLusatia, today...
Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trento and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and LowerLusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc...
the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg (excluding Altmark) and the LowerLusatia region, and became part of the German Empire in 1871. From 1918, Brandenburg...
Mecklenburg; Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia; Margrave of Upper and LowerLusatia; Prince of Orange; Prince of Rügen, of East Friesland, of Paderborn...
Hungary from 1458 until 1490, King of Bohemia (ruling in Moravia, LowerLusatia, Upper Lusatia, and Silesia) from 1469 until 1490, and Duke of Austria from...
Reformation and historic core of the Electorate – as well as LowerLusatia, most of Upper Lusatia, the Thuringian Circle [de] and the Neustadt Circle [de]...
purchased the former March of Lusatia (LowerLusatia) in the northwest. However, during the Thirty Years' War both Lusatias passed to the Electorate of...
and Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski), spoken by about 7,000 people in Brandenburg. The area where the two languages are spoken is known as Lusatia (Łužica...
Zły Komorow, Upper Sorbian: [ˈzwɨ ˈkɔmɔʁɔf], Lower Sorbian: [ˈzwɨ ˈkɔmɔrɔw]) is a town in LowerLusatia, Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, capital of the...
Lusatia. Bautzen is the political and cultural center of the entirety of the Slavic minority of the Sorbs (Upper and Lower), although LowerLusatia and...
LowerLusatia and part of the former Saxe-Wittenberg territory became part of the Province of Brandenburg and the northeastern part of Upper Lusatia became...
(Polish and Sorbian: Gubin) is a town on the Lusatian Neisse river in LowerLusatia, in the state of Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. Located in the Spree-Neiße...
the south by Upper and Lower Austria (both in Austria), in the west by Bavaria (in Germany), and in the north by Saxony and Lusatia (in Germany and Poland...
Habsburg, Gorizia and Gradisca and of the Tyrol; and Margrave of Upper and LowerLusatia and Istria". The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 created a real...
Lusatians, in LowerLusatia. Ancestors of Sorbs (Modern Sorbs) in LowerLusatia. Milchane (Milčané) / Milceni / Milzeni, in Upper Lusatia, and in an area...
Eastern Lusatian (spoken in Eastern Upper Lusatia) Low Lusatian (spoken in LowerLusatia and northern Upper Lusatia) New Lusatian (spoken in the area of settlement...
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