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Lu⋅sa⋅ti⋅a

  [loo-sey-shee-uh, -shuh]
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a region in E Germany and SW Poland, between the Elbe and Oder rivers.
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Lu·sa·ti·a   (lōō-sā'shē-ə, -shə)   
A region of central Europe in eastern Germany and southwest Poland between the Elbe and Oder rivers. Settled by the Slavic Sorbs, it was colonized during the Middle Ages by Germans and changed hands frequently among Saxony, Bohemia, and Brandenburg before passing to Prussia in 1815.
Lu·sa'tian adj. & n.
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Lusatia

central European territory of the Sorbs (Lusatians, or Wends), called Sorben (or Wenden) by the Germans. Historic Lusatia was centred on the Neisse and upper Spree rivers, in what is now eastern Germany, between the present-day cities of Cottbus (north) and Dresden (south)

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