Lower Lusatia (Germany)

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Name (Hebrew)
לוסיטניה תחתונה (גרמניה)
Name (Latin)
Lower Lusatia (Germany)
Other forms of name
nnaa Lusatia, Lower
Niederlausitz (Germany)
Lusatia, Lower (Germany)
Coordinates
14.5 14.5 51.75 51.75 (gooearth )
E0143000 E0143000 N0514500 N0514500 (geonames )
Associated country
Germany
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 130200150
Wikidata: Q148689
Library of congress: n 81133984
Sources of Information
  • Col. Lipp. gaz., 1966(Lusatia; Upper and Lower)
  • Webster's new geo. dict., 1972(Lusatia, region in E. Germany; Upper and Lower Lusatia)
Wikipedia description:

Lower Lusatia (German: Niederlausitz; Lower Sorbian: Dolna Łužyca [ˈdɔlna ˈwuʒɨtsa]; Upper Sorbian: Delnja Łužica [ˈdɛlnʲa ˈwuʒitsa]; Polish: Łużyce Dolne; Czech: Dolní Lužice) is a historical region in Central Europe, stretching from the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. Like adjacent Upper Lusatia in the south, Lower Lusatia is a settlement area of the West Slavic Sorbs whose endangered Lower Sorbian language is related to Upper Sorbian and Polish.

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