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Topic: Sorbian Lusatian


  
  Lusatia - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice, French: (la) Lusace), sometimes called Sorbia, is historicalregion between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in southeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-westernPoland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern CzechRepublic.
The Lusatians in the Prussian state demanded their land to became a separated administrative unit (province orregion/bezirk) but their land were divided between several Prussian provinces.
Lusatian schools and magazines were launched, Domowina association was revived, under increasingpolitical control of the ruling communist party.
www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /default.asp?t=Lusatia   (701 words)

  
 Lusatia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice) is a historical region between the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe river in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and the northern Czech Republic.
The Lusatians in Prussia demanded that their land become a distinct administrative unit (province or region/bezirk), but their land was divided between several Prussian provinces.
Lusatian schools and magazines were launched and the Domowina association was revived, although under increasing political control of the ruling Communist Party.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lusatia   (1050 words)

  
 Lusatia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice, French: (la) Lusace), sometimes called Sorbia, is historical region between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in southeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern Czech Republic.
The Lusatians in the Prussian state demanded their land to became a separated administrative unit (province or region/bezirk) but their land were divided between several Prussian provinces.
Lusatian schools and magazines were launched, Domowina association was revived, under increasing political control of the ruling communist party.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lusatia   (911 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Lusatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
} {{neutrality}} Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice) is a historical region between the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe river in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, south-western Poland (Lower Silesian Voivodeship) and the northern Czech Republic.
The Lusatians in Prussia demanded that their land become a distinct administrative unit (province or region/Bezirk), but it was divided between several Prussian provinces instead.
From 1942 to 1944 the underground Lusatian National Committee was formed and was active in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Lusatia   (1176 words)

  
 Lusatia - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice, sometimes called Sorbia, is a historical region between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in northeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern Czech Republic.
The Lusatians in the Prussian state demanded their land to become a separate administrative unit (province or region/bezirk) but their land was divided between several Prussian provinces.
The modern languages of Upper and Lower Lusatian (or Sorbian) were formed, national literature flourished, many national organizations were initiated like (Macica Serbska and Domowina).
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/u/s/Lusatia.html   (974 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Saxony
The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4.3 million the tenth-largest in area and sixth-largest in population among Germany's sixteen Federal States.
Kamenz (Lusatian: Kamjenc) is a Kreis (district) in the north-east of Saxony, Germany.
Hoyerswerda (Sorbian Wojerecy; population 50,203) is a town in the German Bundesland of Saxony.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saxony   (5519 words)

  
 Lusatian (Sorbian) Collections
Lusatian Sorbs, also known as Lusatians, Sorbs or Wends, are perhaps the least known of the Slavonic peoples and, because of their name, are often confused with the Yugoslav Serbs.
Lusatian Sorbs are linguistically and culturally related to their two Slavonic neighbours and there are also historical links with both countries.
Poetry in Sorbian began to flourish and was mostly published in periodicals that started to appear in the second half of the 19th century.
www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/lusatian.html   (1555 words)

  
 voiprotocol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Sorbian languages are classified under the West Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages.
The city of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia is a centre of Upper Sorbian culture.
Sorbian is also spoken in the small Wendish settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and until recently newspapers were published in Wendish there.
www.voiprotocol.net /articleresources/?title=Sorbian_language   (241 words)

  
 Lužice
Lužice (Němec Lausitz, Horní Sorbian Łužica, Snížit Sorbian Łužyca, Polský Łużyce, Čech Lužice) je historická oblast mezitím Bóbr a Kwisa řeky a řeka Labe ve východních německých stavech Saska a Brandenburg, jihozápadní Polsko (voivodship Lowera Silesia a severní česká republika.
Lusatians v Prusku požadoval to jejich země stát se zřetelnou administrativní jednotkou (provincie nebo oblast/bezirk), ale jejich země byla rozdělena mezi několik pruských provincií.
Lusatian školy a časopisy byly vypuštěny a Domowina asociace byla oživena, ačkoli pod rostoucí politickou kontrolou nad předpisem Communist flámuje.
luzice.navajo.cz   (862 words)

  
 Sorbian languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Sorbian and Lusatian languages are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany.
Sorbian is also spoken in a small settlement in Lee County Texas and until recently newspapers were published Wendish there.
A historical phonology of the upper and lower Sorbian languages (Historical phonology of the Slavic languages)
www.freeglossary.com /Lusatian_language   (346 words)

  
 Lusatia, Germany
The name Lusatia (German Lausitz, Sorbian Lusica, meaning "moorland") is given to an old historical region between the middle Oder and middle Elbe valleys, watered by the upper Spree and the Neisse.
After the repression of Sorbian and Slav aspirations during the Nazi period the Landtag of Saxony passed a law in 1948 granting cultural autonomy to the Sorb population.
The landscape of Lower Lusatia (Niederlausitz) is dominated by the Lusatian Hills with their extensive moraines, tracts of sand and gravel soil, often covered with pine forests, and urstromtäler (ice-margin trenches).
www.planetware.com /lusatia/lusatia-lausitz-d-br-lus.htm   (397 words)

  
 Lusatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The modern languages of Upper and Lower Lusatian (or Sorbian) were formed, national literature flourished, and many national organizations like Maćica Serbska and Domowina were founded.
From 1942-44 the underground Lusatian National Comittee was formed and active in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in Poland.
After World War II the region was divided between East Germany and Poland along the Lusatian Neisse river.
www.punweb.com /article/Lusatia   (971 words)

  
 Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
The Union of Lusatian Sorbs is an umbrella organization, known as Domowina.
The Lower Lusatian Wends complain that the Lower Sorbian language that they are taught in school does not correspond with the language, they call Wendish, that they speak at home.
The Sorbian School Association, which Budarjowa headed until recently, has launched an innovative "total immersion" project in which German and Sorbian kindergarten pupils are taught in a combined Sorbian- and German-language environment.
www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/istorija/savremena/jnaegele-tosurvive.html   (988 words)

  
 Lusatia
Lusatia (German Lausitz, Sorbian Łužica, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice), sometimes called Sorbia comprises a region in the southern parts of Brandenburg and eastern parts of Saxony, Germany.
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.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/lu/lusatia.html   (295 words)

  
 Lusatian Neisse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lusatian Neisse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Lusatian Neisse (Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa, Czech: Lužická Nisa, German: Lausitzer Neiße, Polish: Nysa Łużycka) is a river in the Czech Republic (54 km) and along the Polish-German border (198 km), in total 252 km long.
Lusatian Neisse, See also and Rivers of the Czech Republic.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lusatian_Neisse   (111 words)

  
 sociology - Sorbs
The Sorbs (also Lusatians or Lusatia Serbs) are a relatively small west Slavic people, living as a minority in the region known as Lusatia in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg (in former GDR territory).
Current estimates speak of 20,000 to 30,000 active speakers of Sorbian (almost all of them are bilingual) and about 60,000 people who subjectively consider themselves Sorbs.
The Sorbs have been a much-persecuted group of western Slavs, especially in Nazi Germany, which viewed Slavs as a people designed to be slaves for the Aryan race.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Lusatian_Sorbs   (315 words)

  
 Humbul full record view for -- Lusatian (Sorbian) collections: British Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The site contains a brief history of the Lusatian Sorbs, also known as Lusatians, Sorbs, or Wends who are a Slavonic people living mainly in the South-East of Germany around Cottbus and Bautzen (Chosebuz and Budysin).
Nineteenth century Sorbian literature is represented by the works of authors such as Bart-Cisinski and Zejler.
The Sorbian journal "Casopis Macicy Serbskeje", which ran from 1848-1918 and played a prominent role in national culture is also held by the Library.
www.humbul.org /output/full2.php?id=5996&title=Lusatian+%28Sorbian%29+collections%3A+British+Library&sub=slavonic&type1=&type2=&ref=   (252 words)

  
 Lusatia
The Sorb minority continues to live in the region.
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.
Currently, a Görlitz -based initiative demands a Lusatian Free State.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Lusatia.html   (327 words)

  
 FEDERAL UNION OF EUROPEAN NATIONALITIES EXAMINED THE SITUATION OF A RUSSIA'S MINORITY
SORB MINORITY IN GERMANY EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY WITH THE UDMURT MINORITY IN The Union of Lusatian Sorbs 'Domowina' (Germany) sent a letter of support to the Udmurt schoolchildren's parents who struggle against the decision of Russian authorities to close down the only school in the Udmurt capital with the instruction in the Udmurt language.
In its letter to the Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples, the Domowina says that Lusatian Sorbs are struggling for the preservation of school education in their mother language in Germany, and therefore support the Udmurts in their struggle.
Sorbian is taught as a subject in five other secondary schools as well.
www.suri.ee /press/eng/050826.html   (719 words)

  
 Humbul full record view for -- The Sorbian institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The institute exists to promote the culture, languages and literature of the Sorbian or Wendish peoples, Slavs that came from Lusatia.
The Sorbian languages are divided into Upper and Lower Sorbian/Lusatian.
Currently between 40 and 60 thousand people speak and write in Sorbian.
www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=11547&title=The+Sorbian+institute&sub=slavonic&type1=&type2=&ref=   (191 words)

  
 Lusatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lusatia (uica alemánde Lausitz, de Sorbian, uyce polaco, checo y Serbian enLuice), a veces llamado Sorbia abarca una región las partes meridionales de Brandenburg y las partes del este de Sajonia, Alemania.
El nombre deriva de un significado "pantanos" de la palabra de Sorbian.
Lusatia superior (Oberlausitz) pertenece a Sajonia; consiste en el campo montañoso que se levanta al Lausitzer Bergland (colinas de Lusatian) cerca de la banda checa, que se levanta incluso más arriba para formar las montañas de Lusatian (Luické hory/Lausitzer Gebirge) en la república checa.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/lu/Lusatia.htm   (327 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sorry, momently content to the term "Lusatian" is not available.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
Sorbian (Wendish)-English/English-Sorbian (Wendish) Concise Dictionary: Spoken in Lusatia, Germany (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary)
www.biodatabase.de /Lusatian   (64 words)

  
 Joshua Project - Peoples by Country Profiles
View Sorb, Southern, Lower Lusatian in all countries.
Profiles should be approximately 1,000 words and use the outline:
Send Joshua Project a map of the Sorb, Lower Lusatian of Germany to display here.
www.joshuaproject.net /peopctry.php?rop3=109422&rog3=GM   (463 words)

  
 Sorbian Lower Fonts - ParaType help & info
Population: 14,000 or fewer speakers (1991 Elle) out of a larger ethnic group.
The ethnic group has over 60 towns and villages.
The following table contains encodings which support Sorbian Lower languages and references to font lists which available in our Online Shop.
www.paratype.com /help/language/language.asp?langCode=70   (91 words)

  
 Cottbus
Cottbus is the cultural centre of the Sorbian minority.
Many signs in the town are bilingual, but Sorbian is rarely spoken on the streets.
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www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Cottbus.html   (204 words)

  
 Linguist List - Show languages in Subgroup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
2 languages in the Sorbian subgroup of Indo-European
Bas Sorabe ; Delnoserbski ; Dolnoserbski ; Lower Lusatian ; Lusatian ; Niedersorbisch ; Sorbian, Lower ; Wendish
Bautzen ; Haut Sorabe ; Hornjoserbski ; Hornoserbski ; Kamenz ; Obersorbisch ; Sorbian, Upper ; Upper Lusatian ; Wendish
www.linguistlist.org /forms/langs/get-familyid.cfm?CFTREEITEMKEY=IELCC   (87 words)

  
 LOWLANDS-L archives -- July 2000, week 1 (#20)
Best Regards Kent (in cold and rainy Sweden) ---------- From: Pepijn Hendriks [[log in to unmask]] Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" 06.JUL.2000 (01) [E] Ron, >> (Russian _knjaz'_ 'prince' ~ Czech _kne^z_ 'Priest') >Lower Sorbian (Lusatian): kne^z >Upper Sorbian (Lusatian): knjez (form of address also _knjez^e_ 'sir', >'Mr.
>'Prince' is _princ_ (< German _Prinz_) in both standard varieties of >Sorbian.
Russian has _princ_ 'prince' as well, but I think this may be used only when referring to non-Russian princes.
listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0007a&L=lowlands-l&F=&S=&P=2327   (365 words)

  
 lusatian - definition, thesaurus and related words from WordNet-Online
lusatian - definition, thesaurus and related words from WordNet-Online
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Sorbian, Lusatian - a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany
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