Lusatia is the Latinized form which spread in the English and Romance languages area. Lusatia comprises two both scenically and historically different parts: a hilly southern "upper" section and a "lower" region, which belongs to the North European Plain.

The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1300–500 BC) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture) to V of the Northern European chronological scheme. [ 1 ]

Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja; Lower Sorbian: Serby; German: Sorben pronounced [ˈzɔʁbn̩] ⓘ; Czech: Lužičtí Srbové; Polish: Serbołużyczanie; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs [5] and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.

Feb 27, 2025 · Lusatia, central European territory of the Sorbs (Lusatians, or Wends), called Sorben (or Wenden) by the Germans. Historic Lusatia was centred on the Neisse and upper Spree rivers, in what is now eastern Germany, between the present-day cities of Cottbus (north) and Dresden (south).

Jan 27, 2024 · In the Bronze Age, the central European Lusatian (Lausitz) culture expanded around 1200 BC and persisted in the first centuries of the Early Iron Age. The Lusatian economy varied depending on the area. The people were occupied with cultivation and animal husbandry (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, dogs).

Aug 21, 2019 · The Lusatian culture expansion with agriculture into the South-East Baltic represents the most likely vector of expansion of Proto-Baltic.

Lusatia is a region that can be divided into two parts geologically, but also politically and culturally. The name "Lusatia", which was used in the past, designates two different adjoining countries: Upper Lusatia and Lower Lusatia.

Lusatian Culture. This culture existed from 1300 BC to 500 BC in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic (mainly Moravia), Slovakia, Eastern Germany (Lusatia) and Western Ukraine. This culture had close contacts with the Nordic Bronze Age, Hallstatt and …

In broad terms, the Lusatian (sometimes shown as Lausatian) was an eastwards extension of the Urnfield culture, part of the Central European great cultural realm which was proposed by Marija Gimbutas, and it shared roughly the same time span of existence.

The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (German: Markgrafschaft Lausitz) was an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian Slavs.It arose in 965 in the course of the partition of the vast Marca Geronis.Ruled by several Saxon margravial dynasties, among them the House of Wettin, the lordship was contested by the Polish kings as well as by the Ascanian margraves ...