Lusatia

American  

[loo-sey-shee-uh, -shuh] / luˈseɪ ʃi ə, -ʃə /

noun

1. a region in E Germany and SW Poland, between the Elbe and Oder rivers.

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Lusatia British  

/ luːˈseɪʃɪə /

noun

1. a region of central Europe, lying between the upper reaches of the Elbe and Oder Rivers: now mostly in E Germany, extending into SW Poland; inhabited chiefly by Sorbs

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Traditions and tales of Upper Lusatia, No. II., the fairy tutor, 83 No. III., the dwarf's well, 196 No. IV., the moor maiden, 726.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

Abraham Gottlob Werner was born more than a century ago in Upper Lusatia.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

This Prince had been for some time in France; and tho' he was incog. by the Name or Title of the Count of Lusatia, he had the Retinue of a King's Son.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

The German war was terminated in 1018 by the peace of Bautzen, greatly to the advantage of Boleslaus, who retained Lusatia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Cottbus and Peitz in Lusatia were acquired, and retained after a quarrel with George Podiebrad, king of Bohemia, and the new mark of Brandenburg was purchased from the Teutonic order in 1454.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various