page_title: Lusatia
hierarchical_section_title: Lusatia
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: "Sprachenkarte von Deutschland" Andree's Handatlas 1881. Nach dem Scannen wurden die Farben aufgefrischt, aber ihre Verteilung wurde in keiner Weise verändert. Hinweis: diese Karte weist auch Gebiete mit deutschsprachiger Minderheit als "deutsch" aus! English: Language map of Germany, from a German atlas printed in 1881. The colours in this scan have been enhanced, but regional representations have not been altered. Note: this map identifies even areas with a German-speaking minority as "German".
context_page_description: Lusatia, also known as Sorbia, is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland. The region is the home of the ethnic group of Sorbs. It stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Black Elster in the west, today located within the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as in the Lower Silesian and Lubusz voivodeships of western Poland.
  Historically, Lusatia belonged to several countries. Being part of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown for three hundred years, alongside them it passed to the Habsburg Monarchy and from it to the Electorate of Saxony. The greater part passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 and the whole region merged into Germany in 1871. After the occupation of Eastern Germany by the Red Army and the partition in 1945, the eastern part of Lusatia along the Lusatian Neisse river was ceded to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement. The newly-established Polish-German border became known as the Oder–Neisse line.
  In the Polish part today, as the result of the expulsion of its German-speaking population after 1945 and Polish re-settlement, Polish is spoken, and in the German part German.
context_section_description: Lusatia (German: Lausitz, Upper Sorbian: Łužica, Lower Sorbian: Łužyca, Polish: Łużyce, Czech: Lužice, Latin: Lusatia), also known as Sorbia, is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland. The region is the home of the ethnic group of Sorbs. It stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Black Elster in the west, today located within the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as in the Lower Silesian and Lubusz voivodeships of western Poland.
  Historically, Lusatia belonged to several countries. Being part of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (the so-called Czech Lands) for three hundred years, alongside them it passed to the Habsburg Monarchy and from it to the Electorate of Saxony. The greater part passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 and the whole region merged into Germany in 1871. After the occupation of Eastern Germany by the Red Army and the partition in 1945, the eastern part of Lusatia along the Lusatian Neisse river was ceded to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement. The newly-established Polish-German border became known as the Oder–Neisse line.
  In the Polish part today, as the result of the expulsion of its German-speaking population after 1945 and Polish re-settlement, Polish is spoken, and in the German part German. A minority speaks the Upper- and Lower Sorbian language. The largest Lusatian town is Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: Chóśebuz).
caption: Lusatia as a language island (1880) in green, centre
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