Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia is a geographic and historic region that is mostly located in modern-day land of Saxony in Germany. In this guide, it is used to refer to the territory of the Bautzen and Görlitz districts of Saxony, although what is referred to as Upper Lusatia by historians would usually include parts of what is now Dolnośląskie in Poland, as well as lands now belonging to the Czech Republic.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Bautzen and Görlitz.
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Places to explore: Herrnhut and Bad Muskau.
Upper Lusatia
- Type: Region with 780,000 residents
- Description: historical region in Germany and Poland
- Also known as: “Milsko”, “オーバーラウジッツ”, “オーバーラウズィッツ”, “オーベルラウジッツ”, “上ラウジッツ”, “上劳西茨”, and “上勞西茨”
- Category: historical region
- Location: Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
51.1667° or 51° 10′ north
Longitude of center
14.3333° or 14° 20′ east
Population
780,000
Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Upper Lusatia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوساتيا العليا”
- Bashkir: “Үрге Лужица”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Лужыца”
- Bosnian: “Gornja Lužica”
- Bulgarian: “Горна Лужица”
- Catalan: “Alta Lusàcia”
- Chinese: “上劳齐兹”
- Chinese: “上勞齊茲”
- Chinese: “上卢萨蒂亚”
- Chinese: “上盧薩蒂亞”
- Croatian: “Gornja Lužica”
- Czech: “Horní Lužice”
- Danish: “Oberlausitz”
- Dutch: “Markgraafschap Opper-Lausitz”
- Dutch: “Opper-Lausitz”
- Esperanto: “Supra Luzacio”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Lausitz”
- French: “Haute Lusace”
- French: “Haute-Lusace”
- German: “Oberlausitz”
- Greek: “Άνω Λουσατία”
- Hebrew: “לוזטיה עילית”
- Hindi: “ऊपरी लुसैटिया”
- Hungarian: “Felső-Lausitz”
- Italian: “Alta Lusazia”
- Japanese: “オーバー”
- Latin: “Lusatia superior”
- Latvian: “Augšlauzica”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Lužica”
- Lower Sorbian: “Górna Łužyca”
- Macedonian: “Горна Лужица”
- Northern Frisian: “Boower Lausitz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberlausitz”
- Norwegian: “Oberlausitz”
- Persian: “ووژیتسای علیا”
- Polish: “Górne Łużyce”
- Polish: “Łużyce Górne”
- Portuguese: “Alta Lusácia”
- Romanian: “Silezia Luzaciană”
- Romanian: “Silezia Luzațiană”
- Russian: “Верхняя Лужица”
- Serbian: “Горња Лужица”
- Silesian: “Gůrno Łużyca”
- Slovak: “Horná Lužica”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Lužica”
- Spanish: “Alta Lusacia”
- Swedish: “Oberlausitz”
- Turkish: “Oberlausitz”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Лужиця”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hornja Łužica”
- Urdu: “اپر لوساتیا”
- Venetian: “Alta Luzasia”
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