ATTENTION: 1. Serbian subtitles are available - kliknite "CC" za srpske titlove. 2. "Sorb" is the english term for "Lusatian Serbs" although in Sorbian they call themselves "Serby/Serbja". 3. Links to the Sorbian Domowina organization and the Serbske Nowiny newspaper are in the description for those who wish to contact and help the Sorbs.

Big hugs to all Sorbs from Poland. You are not forgotten despite of historic divisions you are still part of Slavic family and you are always welcome in Poland.

Hello I am from that area of Lausitz and I am grateful that u give us a voice and introduce us to the world and the bad history that happened to us.

To Polish, Czech and Slovakian governments: Please create immediately at University of Wroclaw "Faculty of Sorbian-Lusatien language". Immediately! Our brothers Lusatien (Luzyczanie) calling dramatcaly for help! Pozdrowienia dla braci Slawian zza rzeki Odra!

I wish for the Sorbs/Serbs to gain independence, it's amazing how after so many years of forced assimilation and destruction, they still managed to keep their identity. Slava slavianom !!!!

Pozdrawiał Łużyczan z Polski Liczę na lepszą przyszłość Serbów w Niemczech

Thank you for this fascinating video on on often forgotten Slavic people group!

Большой привет братьям Сербам!

All Slavic countries need to help to creat a new Slavic country. Thanks you for bringing attention to our brothers in need. Косово это Сербия!

Pozdrav braci Srbima iz Srbije. Ziveli.

ironically we survived under Germans, but not under Poles and Czechs.

Pozdrav Srbskoj braci iz Srbije.

Держитесь братья! Вместе победим, с Богом!

Bilo bi krajnje vrijeme da vlada Srbije, počne da brine malo o Luzickim Srbima, Dačiću da te vidimo u akciji i da među njima zapjevas, viva Serbija

Oddly enough I actually found out about Sorbians from my German class because we read Krabat. I wish we had been taught about the tragic history and colourful culture behind these great people

Svapska gamed nikad nije bila naklonjena Slovenima, specijalno Srbima. Istorija se ponavlja.

I would say that name Luzica means "land of forests" and derived from (Old)Slavic word LUG - forest. In South Slavic languages now, the word has mostly archaic and lyrical usage, and still exist, fore example, in the word for forest keeper LUGAR. In South Eastern (Balkan) Serbia there is a small region call LUŽNICA and we call them LUŽNICANI.

Glory to the Lusatian Serbs.Support from Serbia

In nowdays Serbia,as in the past,we were always learned that only unity saves Serbs.Same as the Sorbs.We are one.

Pozdrav braći Lužičkim Srbima iz Novog Sada !!!

Interesting their capitol is called Budiš(sh)in, I know Balkan Serbs with such last name.

Fun fact: East Germany has the highest Slavic DNA, this comes from assimilated Polabian [west] Slavs, despite having no autonomy Sorbs, Silesians and Kashubian have resisted for a long, long time

Fascinating! Thank you for telling the world!

Great video

Good the Sorbs were were not wiped out like the american indians. Continue to thrive in your own Culture!

Hi to all Sorbs ;-) !!! I'm so sad there's only 60 000 of you )-; ... But if you have more children and they have more your population is gonna boooom !!! Anyways love you ! 🔵🔴⚪

Big hug to my Lusatian Serbs brothers!! Only Unity Will Save the Serbs!!

Zivela severna Srbija i Severni Srbi!

WOW!! Great video: covered a LOT in just 11 minutes. Extremely impressive.

Слава роду!☦️❤️✝️💙

Хвала за видео. Живели Срби!

Braćo lužički Srbi da li me razumete?

We Serbs feel your suffering at all. Bloody History. 🇷🇸

Thanks so much! I'm an Australian with Wendish heritage.

SERBS OF GERMAY!!!!!!!!!

Штета што већ дуго нема овако квалитетних кратких документараца. Лепо је за наше људе да гледају, а уједно едукује и странце.

Живјели ми Срби ма где били поздрав браћи Србима из Републике Српске ❤❤❤

Slawa Слава Slava

before Sorbs and Serbs came to the west,at the begining they used to live on Caucasus mountains,in 1st century,roman historian,Plinius wrote about sarmatian tribes,and there he found tribe Serboi,almost 2000 years ago,which means we are Serbs for almost 2000 years without any changing of our national name,in rig vedas one legendary hero,Serbinda is mentioned,some historians believe that Serbinda was legendary founder of his tribe-Serby

Dobar Film, pozdrav iz Štipa !

I remember reading about Serbs amongst others like the Czechs being part of the Polish and Lithuanian force which defeated the Teutonic Order in the battle of Grunwald in 1410. I thought they were from Serbia but perhaps they were actually Sorbs whom the Poles call Serbs.

if sorbs start revulution and become independent,and then germany reconizes them as part of germany that will be a time regreting reconizing kosovo as a country

Love from Poland! I heard 1st Polish King Bolesław Chrobry is Sorbs national hero.

“Lower Sorbian in the north, and upper in the south “ My Brain: “WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?”

Very sad when any culture faces extinction, no matter how small in numbers they are.

Sorbs-Serbia -Srbija ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Greetings Serbs of Germany!

My grandma was sorbian 🤗

My family is german but my last name is sorbian lol

Лужицкие сербы в восточной Германии не единственный славянский народ в тех местах. Бодричи и лютичи жили севернее сорбов и к сожалению полностью онемечены. Остались лишь воспоминания об Арконе и династии Рюриковичей... Слава РОДу!

Very Interesting! I live in Saxony-Anhalt (East-Germany) and know that I have a strong Slavic heritage.Basically All of my family members that lived 100 years ago were either polish or czech ( I even know that my grandmother‘s stepmom was from Estonia). I even found out that the village I live in „Minsleben“ actually was called „Minislavus“ 1000 years ago, because basically everyone that lived there was Slavic. Love to all Slavic People from Saxony-Anhalt!

This is terrific as this information was hidden from the world.

I have czech-sorbian dictionary here at home, it is like 70 years old, I hope their language and identity will survive

Our Brothers!

Славяне жили здесь тысячелетия до рождества христова, германцы те же славяне в древности. Прям слушаешь эту историю Шлецеров и уши в трубочку заворачиваются.

Please do not give up!!! Be proud and aware of who you are!!! My dearest!!!

Untrue! All Slavs including Serbs are from Helm, "Balkan". Why they have signs in video "serbski sokoli" if they are "Sorbs". And another crucial thing! It was not only lusatian people called themselves Serbs, but also Eastern Germany, Western Poland and Czech republic (modern). Try toponymes in Czech republic with "Serb", dozens of them, even in Poland, although in Poland are Sorb, in Czech Serb. Old Slavic names are Serbs and Rasians, only few Slavic people stood with their old names. And WHY Charles the Great would negotiate with one small tribe?? Make peace, accuse them, making efforts etc.?!?! Why?! The strongest country in Europe of that time! Answer is because most of central European "Slavs" had their old name, it is the Serbs. Lusatia is just among them!!! Still congratulations for video, you are trying at least. Istina će izaći na videlo, istina je večna i nepromenljiva, živeli braćo Serbi.

Kosovo is Serbia

If Charlemagne had defeated the Sorbs (Not the Lusatian Serbs, because we are one constructive tribe of one great state), he would not have set a border, but would have conquered the whole of Sorbian. The Frankish Annals (if I remember) mention Charlemagne's order that "if the Czechs attack, raise a quarter of the army, and if the Serbs attack, raise the whole army," which tells us that the Sorabs were not a tiny tribe with borders on the Elbe and Saxony, but probably what Milos S. Milojevic and some others mention, A constructive state consisting of several tribes that fought and reconciled with each other and when the enemy outside the state attacks everyone meets as happened before the Battle of Kosovo.

Incredibly fascinating history, greetings from New Zealand

They look like good guys I hope their population grows bigger in the future

Нека су нам живи и здрави.Како лепо звучи, Срби и то Лужички.Србин из Косовског Поморавља.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

My surname is of Sorbian origin anglicized in 1829 Besco. Beskow before emigrating from Lower Saxony. The town of Beeskow is 42 miles east by south east of Berlin.

Sorbs, like all Slavic nations today are the remnants of one unified state called Lechia. The vast majority of Germany is a land that once had a different name. Most German cities had name changes from Slavic to German. Berlin was Berlo, Hamburg was Bukowiec and Bremen was Brzemie just to name a few. Sorbs resisted germanisation, most other principalities that now make up the German and the Austrian state, beetween the year 300 and 850 did not resist. With enough digging there are a lot of really old documents out there that talk about this. Unfortunately there are people and countries that don’t like this history much.

Serbowie Łużyccy to najszlachetniejsi ludzie na świecie. Nie spotkałam żadnego ale ich historia mówi za siebie

Not true. Sorry but the video is widely incorrect. The Sorbs actually MIGRATED from the Hum [Balkans]. Hum is a prehistoric name for the Balkans [Hum/Hlm/Helm]. The Balkns is a ancient homeland from where the Slavs expanded. The Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Montenegrins, MAcedonians, Bosnians and Slovenians all came to be from the Vinca civilization and their continuations like Lepenski vir - Kostolac - Vucedol - Vinkovci - Sopot cultures. The Serbs took their name in honor of the Goddess SERBONA [Srbona]. To this day Serb society is matricentric, just like the Vincan one, which means that the woman is in the center of the home. All of these people I mentioned are indigenous/autochtonous populations of the Balkans. They expanded from Balkans to north to river Elba, and east to city of Novogorod [hence the name itself - NOVI GRAD - NEW CITY - NOVOGOROD]. I can go on and on and on. A lot of the archives proving this are still kept in Vatican. The antiquity homeland of the Serbs, Croats was called "LIRIJA - LYRIA" which could be transliterated to "The land of the ones who talk/sing". Still true to this day.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY SERBS FROM GERMANY DO NOT MAKE STROGER CONNECTIONS WITH SERBIA FROM BALKAN. YOU ARE WELCOME TO SERBIA. WE ARE BROTHERS. MAYBE, WE CAN OPEN YOUR MUSEUM IN BELGRADE, TO OPEN DEPARTMENT FOR YOUR HISTORY IN OUR UNIVERSITY, TO ORGANIZE YOUR FOLKLOR UNIONS TO COME TO SERBIA, ETC.

i'm serbian and recently started doing some research on my ancestors. I was amazed to find that Dervan is my ancestors and I've never heard of the Sorbs before. Super fascinating, thank you for making this video!

5:58 is a painting of Poles christianity not Sorbs

Sloveni pljačkali germane i ostale-kako? Kada su Sloveni(Srbi) prvi beli ljudi na tim prostorima.

None of the East Block countries such as East Germany and Poland were incorporated into the Soviet Union as the video states.

They were leftover people from white serbia, white croatia was its neighbour , then they move to the balkans. Before this , the serboi Were in sarmatica asiatica. They were located on the shores of the north western part of the caspian sea in the caucus

SERBONA AND SERBON SERBIEN ANTIK GODS

The great Michael Ballack!

Treba nam vise kanala kao sto je tvoj, da konacno razotkrijemo nasu pravu istoriju, ZIVELA SRBIJA!!!

Best history channel.

Learned something new!

Fascinating. Was always curious as to how the Thuringian woods got the nickname of "der Slavenwald". I'm guessing that they got there sheltering themselves as refugees from the Hunnic invasions, just as the Goths also got pushed gradually westward around the same time? Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't it at least plausible?

Liberate Lužica...if Kosovo can, than Lužica can also

And what about Lusatia being a part of the Bohemian lands?

All slavs migrated from the Balkans, up north. The most recognized migrants were the "Hai Douks" and the "Hussars" migrating from the Serb area of Byzantium after 1389.

This video is only partially correct. Serbs have lived in large areas of nowadays Germany and Poland but they have inhabited the areas in BC. Newest scientific findings they used multidisciplinary approach confirmed that the oldest civilization and first industrial revolution of Europe started in Vincan civilization which predates Roman, Greek, Etruscan and others ancients. The oldest script found is Vincan script that is approximately 6-8 millennia old. Serbs was a common name for all Proto-Slavs of the era and they inhabited entire area from South Balkan to Baltic Sea. That means that a large part or entire Ancient Greece is only a concept and not a fact. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned that fact in a meeting with Serbian PM by saying that Israeli and Serbian peoples friendship goes back in millennia to the times of Roman Republic????? WTF did Serbs do in Asia Manor 2600 years ago? Check the place names in Asia Minor from that era. Etruscan writing has 24 leters the same as in Serbian alphabet and can only be deciphered by using the Serbian Azbuka. Why do Sanskrit and Serbian language have thousands of similar/ same words with same meanings and no other so called Hindu European language does? Why approximately 100 million people in India (mostly upper cast & Bollywood stars) have the genetic groups that are by large predominant in Serbian population. Why The Russian history books talk about their ancestors coming from area of "Seven Rivers" which means Danube and its tributaries. Mavro Orbini was a catholic historian and his book titled "The Realm of Slavs" was kept in obscurity in Vatican's library for centuries and was only partially published/ translated. THE REASON IS SIMPLE. THE TRUTH ABOUT SERBS DID NOT AGREE WITH VATICAN'S, GERMAN'S AND ANGLICAN'S IMPERIALISTIC PLANS TO CONQUER EAST. SERBS WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN EUROPE THAT HAD THREE OF THEIR OWN RULING DYNASTIES THRU MILLENNIA OF HISTORY. WESTERN HISTORY "TEACHINGS" ATTEMPTS TO DENY SERBS HISTORY AND WITH THAT, BY PURPOSELY OMITTING THEIR ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF OTHER EUROPEAN CULTURES, TO DENY SERBIANS' RIGHT TO EXIST. SAME HAPPENED WITH ALL CIVILIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD WHERE EVER VATICAN SENT THEIR MISSIONARIES TO SPREAD THE LOVE AND WORD OF GOD.

All Slavic people groups: West Slavs: Sorbs/Sorbians/Lusatians (In Germany & Poland) Czechs -Bohemians -Moravians Slovaks Poles/Polish Kashubs/Kashubians/Pomeranians (In Poland) Silesians (In Poland & Czechia) South Slavs: Slovenes/Slovenians Croats/Croatians Bosniaks/Bosnians Montenegrins Serbs/Serbians North Macedonians Bulgarians Pomaks (in Bulgaria, Greece & Turkey) East Slavs: Rusyns/Carpatho-Rusyns (In Ukraine, Slovakia & Poland) Pannonian Rusyns (in Vojvodina, Serbia) Ukrainians Belarusians Russians #SłowiańskaDuma

Long live Serbs🇷🇸

nemačka je srbija

Thank you for this video. Very informative and comprehensive.

The Sorbs have the highest amount of Y-Chromosome R1a DNA at +60% in Europe. Very interesting.

Ovo je predobro, cuo zam za luzicke srbe al sve sam kontao oni su tamo negde kod donietska

Pozdrav braci iz Luzice... A vi mitomani smanjite dozivljaje.

Sleeping in a cave for centuries ? Damn these guys must really have strong relations with Montenegrins Btw your vids are great👍🏻

The history of the Lusatian Serbs is much greater before or after Vincent's culture. King Samo was the king of the Luzic Serbs who had much larger territory. When the Roman Empire began to weaken, the king only sent his son Vsevolod to liberate the Balkans (because the Serbs demanded that the Luzic Serbs liberate them) . There he liberated the Balkans, establishing his own empire, extending from Slovenia to Constantinople (because there was a majority Serb population there) ps: another unrelated curiosity is that King Arthur is a Serb (I saw it in the Galilee)

We need an orthodox empire!

Long Live Serbia....Kosovo is Serbia!!!

my girlfriend is in germany and i have followed her for her srudies but she would like to stay in hermany even after studies. unfortunately i dont as i quite literally miss my slavic people , the culture and everything. so seeing this i guess puts me at ease if i ever feel like i need something to remind me off home :)

srbija nasa majka mila.

Pomaze Bog braco Luzicki Srbi od brata Srbina iz Republike Srbske.. imamo jedni druge, nikada to ne smijemo zaboraviti, vi gore na sjeveru i mi ovdje na jugu smo dokaz nase velicine koju dusmani zele da nam ospore. Mi smo djeca Boga Zivoga, narod nebeski. Slava Ocu, Sinu i Svetome Duhu, Amin.

It would be nice for Croats who comments to learn how the true language of the Croats looked before Đura Danicic and to And to explore the Czech and Polish chronicles where the Poles and Czechs claim that have Serbian origine .. In Dalimil chronicle, Czech describes that Serbs are the oldest nation who built the Babylonian tower, but the Gods were terribly angry and scattered them and mixed their language .. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_Dalimil

Wow.. I watched and listened to this documentary.. By blood of Vuk Karadjic and the Hai Duk way.. I would have fought for these people and won many decisive battles... CBCB = Samo Bratca Spasava Bratca! URA! RA RA RA URA! URA! RA RA RA URA! URA RA RA RA URA!

Kosovo je Srbija

Pozdrav iz Srbije niste zaboravljeni, vraticemo se gde smo bili