The areas east and west along the Spree in the German part of Lusatia are home to the Slavic Sorbs, one of Germany's four officially recognized indigenous ethnic minorities (alongside Sinti and Roma, Frisians, and Danes). Lusatia is traditionally divided into Upper Lusatia (the hilly southern part) and Lower Lusatia (the flat northern part). The Lusatian Mountains (part of the Sudetes), separate Lusatia from Bohemia ( Czech Republic) in the south. Lusatia's central rivers are the Spree and the Lusatian Neisse, which constitutes the border between Germany and Poland since 1945 ( Oder–Neisse line). Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Pulsnitz and Black Elster rivers in the west, and is located within the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as in the Polish voivodeships of Lower Silesia and Lubusz.
Lusatia ( German: Lausitz, Polish: Łużyce, Upper Sorbian: Łužica, Lower Sorbian: Łužyca, Czech: Lužice, Silesian: Łużyca rarely also referred to as Sorbia) is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland.
Lusatia as a language island ( Sorbian languages, 1880) in green, centre
