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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Slavs
A division of this little nationality into Upper and Lower Lusatians has been made on account of linguistic, religious, and political differences; this distinction is also evident in the literary language, consequently some scholars regard the Lusatians as two different peoples.
The Lusatian Sorbs are the residue of the Slavs of the Elbe who once spread across the Oder and Elbe, inhabiting the whole of the present Germany.
The Lusatian Sorbs are Catholics with exception of 15,000 in Upper Lusatia.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14042a.htm   (7656 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Lusatia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz) belongs to Saxony; it consists of hilly countryside rising to the Lausitzer Bergland (Lusatian hills) near the Czech border, which rises even higher to form the Lusatian Mountains (Lužické hory/Lausitzer Gebirge) near the border of the Czech Republic.
Lusatia is not an administrative unit, though the city of Cottbus (Chośebuz) may be regarded as the capital to the region.
Bautzen (Budyšin) is often regarded as the capital of Upper Lusatia.) There have been endeavours by the Sorbs to create a Lusatian Free State in the past - particularly after World War II, when the Sorbian National Committee demanded that Lusatia be attached to Czechoslovakia.
www.ipedia.com /lusatia.html   (340 words)

  
 Christmas at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Striezelmarkt, Germany's oldest Christmas market boasting the specialities of the Dresden region wich is arguable a worldwide christmas gift production center takes place nearly one month.
This is the time when Dresden Stollen fruitcake, Puslnitzer gingerbread, wood carvings from the Erzgebirge Mountains, Dresden Pflaumentoffel, Lusatian indigo print, Silesian ceramics, Bohemian glass and Meissen porcelain are dominating the whole life of some people from all over who collect as total christmas fanatics.
For most of the world, Christmas gifts are given on Christmas Eve (24 December) or Christmas Day.
wiki.tatet.com /Christmas.html   (2787 words)

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