Talk:Lusatia

message: Well, I'am from Upper Lusatia and have to say that there are many historical mistakes in this article. Besides it would be much better not to mix the history of Lower Lusatia and Upper Lusatia in one paragraph. It would be much better to have 3 articles: Lusatia, Lower Lusatia and Upper Lusatia or at least different paragraphs. My language skills are not good enough to do it. It would make sense if someone who speaks English and German translates the articles form the german wiki - the Upper Lusatia article there is already realy good. I don't care if the articles are very short, because thats not an very important region for english speaking countrys, but I don't like the many mistakes. Thomas 16.01.06
I do agree with the previous statement. There are many historical oversimplifications in this article and it seems that some statements are rather propagandistic. The article puts the emphasis only on the slavic part of the history in this region and almost denies that this area has also now more then thousand years of german history. I also think that the history of the Oberlausitz and the Niederlausitz should be described separatly, since it differs quite a bit.
: I wouldn't call it propagandistic, but it indeed needs some more facts. "now more then thousand years of german history" is a bit too much since the split of the Frankish Empire isn't even 1200 years back. The article is on my watch list now and as soon as I have some time for it I'll edit it. --32X 06:12, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  dispute of neutrality and historical mistakes 

message: Where and when is this region called by the English construction Sorbia? I have never heard or read the name nor any possible German equivalent. A google search turns very few and almost no neutral use of the word. I removed the word Sorbia from this entry and unless somebody has proof that the word is seriously used as a name for the region I would say we keep it out.
:It is mentioned a few times in Google Books, but the term does not seem to be in common usage. Olessi 02:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorbs is an ancient German name for the tribes of Serbs. Nowaday the word is not used (or even spelled) in latin script and is rarely seen outside of manuscripts and chronicles mainly because a certain man with a quarter of a mustache misused the word in some propaganda which pissed of the Sorbs. Now they call themselves "Serbs" or when wanting to be more specific "White Serbs". 99.236.221.124 (talk) 05:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  bullshit alert. --32X (talk) 22:02, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Troll alert 99.236.221.124 (talk) 03:04, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sometimes called Sorbia! 

message: Wikipedia is crawling with people who love to fix things, even if they don't add content.  But someone who knows both German and the preferably some history of the region should make the first cut at these translations.  Aren't there any bored undergraduates in Dresden?
:Why in Dresden? What did you say about content? -- j.budissin 09:52, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  don't be shy about the english 

message: Just to let you all know. There are translation requests for Upper and Lower Lusatia now. Splitting the region into Upper and Lower Lusatia and translating the german articles is probably the best way to solve this mess. Karasek (talk) 10:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that separate articles are needed. I might get around to working on it eventually, but there are other projects in my queue first. If you feel intrepid, feel free to take a stab at the articles yourself. Olessi (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info: translation request for Upper and Lower Lusatia 

message: Are the Sorbs mainly catholic today? 
The first books written in Sorbian language were translations of the bible as a result of the Lutheran Reformation. Belonging to a Protestant state ment to be Protestant ( in 16th century). So why should the Sorbs stay catholic?(62.134.88.165 (talk) 08:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Most Sorbs around Bautzen and Panschwitz-Kuckau monastery are catholic, many of the others protestant. But there is no real statistics on that. -- j.budissin (talk) 15:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: Can somebody explain why English uses the terms SORB and SORBIAN? They call them selves SERB, SERBKA, SERBJA, the name for the language is SERBSKI, SERBŠČINA. There is no sense in that.
A Friend of Lusatia  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.244.195.13 (talk) 22:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess, because the German word is Sorben, as you might know. I could also ask, why this is the case, but it definitely is. Historical reasons. Doesn't really matter, does it? -- j.budissin (talk) 23:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I guess it should be cleared up in the article as it seems to be leading to some confusion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.117.157.157 (talk) 22:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The origin of the terms SORB, SORBIAN 

message: "More than 60,000 of the Sorbian Slavic minority continue to live in the region. Historically their ancestors are the Milceni and the Lusitzer, and not the Sorbs, that settled in the region between Elbe and Saale."
What does this mean?  Are the Sorbs of Lusatia distinct from a people of the same name, who live or lived to the west of Lusatia?  Or is this some sort of error in construction?  140.147.236.195 (talk) 16:29, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, but it descends from their own name, "Serbja". And also that name comes originally not from Lusatian people, but from Slavonic tribes in Thuringia. -- j.budissin (talk) 14:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not descended from Sorbs? 

message: I changed "alongside Sinti and Roma" to "alongside Sinti a subgroup of Roma" because the Sinti are a subgroup of Roma and the "and" implies they're two seperate groups when that isn't the case. So why did somebody change it back? 47.17.90.59 (talk) 21:54, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinti & Roma or Sinti a subgroup of Roma?