Sorbs
The Sorbs are Slavic people. They live mostly in Germany and Poland. There are 60,000 Sorbian people in the world. About 25,000 people speak one of the Sorbian languages.
In Germany and Poland Sorbs do not use the old fashioned words "Wends" or "Wendish" to describe themselves. American and Australian communities often prefer to call themselves "Wends" or "Wendish". They think that “Sorb” and “Sorbian” are bad words.
Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian dialects are protected languages in parts of Germany under the European Charter for Minority or Regional Languages
Sorbs Media
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Flag of Sorbs (1842)
National costume of the Sorbs, as it is worn in the northernmost part of the Sorbian territory (Spreewald) in eastern Germany
A map of the Sorbian-Lusatian tribes between the 7th and 11th century, by Wilhelm Bogusławski, 1861
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7th-century Sorbian Duchy of Dervan
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Saxon Eastern March c. 1000 AD
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The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia
Sorbian church in Senftenberg (Zły Komorow)
First issue of the Bramborski Serbski Casnik Sorbian newspaper, 1848
The place where Domowina was founded in Hoyerswerda (Wojerecy) in 1912
A Wendish wedding procession in 1931 with the bride and groom at the front, still carried out today according to old traditions
