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Historical region
Upper Lusatia
Oberlausitz, Łużyce Górne, Hornja Łužica, Górna Łužyca, Horní Lužice
Historical region
From top, left to right: Bautzen
Market Square in Löbau
Culture Center in Zgorzelec
Kamenz Old Town
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Upper Lusatia as a part of the Crown of Bohemia within the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
Countries
Germany Poland
Capital
Bautzen
Largest town
Görlitz
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Highways
Upper Lusatia (German: Oberlausitz[ˈoːbɐˌlaʊ̯zɪt͡s]ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Hornja Łužica, pronounced[ˈhɔʁnʲaˈwuʒitsa]ⓘ; Lower Sorbian: Górna Łužyca; Polish: Łużyce Górne[1] or Milsko; Czech: Horní Lužice) is a historical region in Germany and Poland. 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 Slavic minority group of the Sorbs.
The major part of Upper Lusatia is part of the German federal state of Saxony, roughly comprising Bautzen district and Görlitz district. The northwestern extremity, around Ruhland and Tettau, is incorporated into the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of the state of Brandenburg. The eastern part of Upper Lusatia is in Poland, east of the Neisse (Nysa) river, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. A small strip of land in the north around Łęknica is incorporated into Lubusz Voivodeship, along with the Polish part of Lower Lusatia.
The historic capital of Upper Lusatia is Bautzen/Budyšin, while the largest city in the region is Görlitz/Zgorzelec, halved between Germany and Poland since 1945. The name Lusatia superior was first recorded in a 1474 deed, derived from the adjacent Lower Lusatian lands in the north, which originally were just called the March of Lusatia. The Upper Lusatian territory was previously referred to as Milsko in contemporary chronicles, named after the local West Slavic Milceni tribe, later also called Land Budissin.
^Leciejewicz, Lech (1989). Słowianie zachodni : z dziejów tworzenia się średniowiecznej Europy. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. pp. 234, 235. ISBN 83-04-02690-2.
indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally...
a minority language spoken by Sorbs, in the historical province of UpperLusatia, which is today part of Saxony, Germany. It is grouped in the West Slavic...
The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (German: Mark(grafschaft) Lausitz) was an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian...
century Silesian Wars. It furthermore included the northeastern part of UpperLusatia around Görlitz and Lauban (Lubań), ceded to Prussia by the Kingdom of...
Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate of UpperLusatia and the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia, as well as other territories throughout...
Eastern Lusatian (spoken in Eastern Upper Lusatia) Low Lusatian (spoken in Lower Lusatia and northern UpperLusatia) New Lusatian (spoken in the area of settlement...
sydlenski rum) of Lusatia, and is Lusatia's third-largest town after Cottbus and Görlitz, as well as the second-largest town in UpperLusatia. The town lies...
and territorial division in the Bohemian crown lands of Silesia and UpperLusatia, existing from 15th to 18th centuries. These estates were exempt from...
Silesia, Germany. The village is in the Sorbian settlement area of UpperLusatia and is mainly known for the Azalea and Rhododendron Park Kromlau, the...
UpperLusatia (Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz), a united church body in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian UpperLusatia merged...
the Görlitz district of Saxony, the larger Upper Lusatian parts of Prussian Silesia ("Silesian UpperLusatia") west of the Neisse comprised the town of...
Reformation and historic core of the Electorate – as well as Lower Lusatia, most of UpperLusatia, the Thuringian Circle [de] and the Neustadt Circle [de], among...
Eastern UpperLusatia (German: Östliche Oberlausitz) is a natural region in Saxony and, in a broader sense, part of the Western Sudetes range including...
from 1458 until 1490, King of Bohemia (ruling in Moravia, Lower Lusatia, UpperLusatia, and Silesia) from 1469 until 1490, and Duke of Austria from 1487...
experiences and as an expert on espionage. Dittrich was born in Reichenbach, UpperLusatia, East Germany, only a few weeks after the partition of Germany, and...
King John had also acquired the lands of Bautzen and Görlitz (later UpperLusatia) in 1319 and 1329. His son and successor Charles IV, also King of the...
settlement from the 13th century onwards continued to move into the UpperLusatia region and the duchies of Silesia north of the Sudetes mountain range...
affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian UpperLusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany. It is located...
with the Apostolic Prefecture of UpperLusatia (comprising the post-Napoleonic remainder of Wettin-held UpperLusatia) into the new Diocese of Meissen...
which ended a series of Polish-German wars over the control of Lusatia and UpperLusatia (Milzenerland or Milsko, the eastern part of the margraviate of...
Brandenburg. The area where the two languages are spoken is known as Lusatia (Łužica in Upper Sorbian, Łužyca in Lower Sorbian, or Lausitz in German). After...
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