Lusatia

American  

[loo-say-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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Lusatia

Marshal Daun, however, had followed the King into Lusatia.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd

He is of an ancient Family which has Lands in Lusatia.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I 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

To his second son, Sigismund, he gave Brandenburg, which he had obtained partly by intrigue and partly by purchase, and to his third son, John, the province of Lusatia, adjoining Silesia.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born January 22nd, 1729, at Kamenz, in Upper Lusatia, and died February 15th, 1781, at Brunswick.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

He was soon appointed pastor at Lübben in Lusatia, where he died in a.d.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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