Sorbs
Sorbian national flag
The
Sorbs are a west
Slavic minority from
Lusatia in the German states of
Saxony and
Brandenburg (in the former
GDR).
Historically,
Sorbs have been a much-persecuted group of western
Slavs, especially in
Nazi Germany. They belong to the same language group as the
Poles,
Czechs,
Slovaks and
Kashubians, and are also known as
Lusatian Sorbs or
Serbs of Luzice. See also
Wends.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was Sorb by origin.
Toponyms
A number of toponyms in Eastern Germany have Slavic names, and some cities in south-eastern part of Germany even have name derived from "Sorbian", witnessing Sorbian ancestry of these territories. (See external link (in Serbian))
Examples:
A lot of cities in the german Lausitz area have city signs with both the german and the sorbian name.
External links
Sorbs is also the name of a commune in the Hérault département in France.