Lusatia

English

Geographic location of Lusatia.

Etymology

From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  word for "swamp, swampy land".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈseɪʃə/

Proper noun

Lusatia

1. A region of Central Europe, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
   • 1759, George Sale & al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, Vol.XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.

Derived terms

• Lower Lusatia
• Lusatian
• Upper Lusatia

Translations

region

• Belarusian: Лу́жыца f (Lúžyca)
• Catalan: Lusàcia
• Czech: Lužice (cs)
• French: Lusace (fr) f
• German: Lausitz (de) f
• Italian: Lusazia (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: Lausitz

• Polish: Łużyce (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Lusácia f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: Лу́жица (ru) f (Lúžica), Ла́узиц m (Láuzic)
• Silesian: Łużyca
• Slovak: Lužica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Łužyca f

  Upper Sorbian: Łužica f

• Spanish: Lusacia
• Ukrainian: Лу́жиця f (Lúžycja)
• Yiddish: לוזשיץ f (luzhits)