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Sorbs

image by Carsten Linke, 1996-06-24

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Germany

There's a tiny nation in Central Europe called Sorbs, which has no contemporary relation to the Balkan Serbs. Germans call this nation "Sorben" or "Wenden". With 150,000 souls, they are the smallest Slavic nation in existence. They live in the region of Germany called Lausitz (Luzice), on the river Elbe (Laba). They are the descendants of the Western Slavs who in 6-10 cent. A.D. controlled what is today north-eastern Germany. I understand that their cultural life is quite active, they have their own press, schools and a political organization ("Domovina").

Greg D., 1995-08-29

According to William Crampton's _The World of Flags_ (Studio, London 1990):

The Sorbs, a slavic community in what is now [i.e. then!] East Germany, also adopted a [horizontal] tricolour in 1848 of blue, red, white. There is no Sorb state as such but the flag is still in use [p134 - illus]

Roy Stilling, 1995-08-30

The flag of Sorbs is mentioned in Constitutions of German states of Brandenburg and Saxony. (Source: Gvbl Brandenburg and Gvbl Saxony.)
Pascal Vagnat, 1995-12-19

Some explain the meaning of the colours: "At the top is the sky, and towards the bottom it gets more and more lighter."

Carsten Linke, 1996-06-24