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March of Lusatia

Margraviate of Lusatia
Markgrafschaft Lausitz
State of the Holy Roman Empire
965–1367


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March of (Lower) Lusatia around 1000
Capital Lübben
Government Margraviate
Margraves
 •  965–993 Odo I (first)
 •  1365–1367 Otto of Wittelsbach (last)
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Partitioned from Marca Geronis 965
 •  Conquered by Poland 1002–1031
 •  Appointment of Dietrich II of Wettin  
1032
 •  Death of Henry IV 1288
 •  Sold to Brandenburg 1303
 •  To Bohemia 1367
 •  To Saxon electorate 1635
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Image missing Marca Geronis
Lands of the Bohemian Crown Lands of the Bohemian Crown


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The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (German: Mark(grafschaft) Lausitz) was as an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian Slavs. It arose in 965 in the course of the partition of the vast Marca Geronis. Ruled by several Saxon margravial dynasties, among them the House of Wettin, the lordship was contested by the Polish kings as well as by the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg. The remaining territory was finally incorporated into the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1367.

The territory of the margraviate roughly corresponded with the present-day region of Lower Lusatia. It originally stretched from the border of the Saxon stem duchy along the Saale River in the west to the border with Poland on the Bober (Bóbr) River in the east. From about 1138, the adjacent Polish territory beyond the river was part of the Duchy of Silesia (Lower Silesia). In the north, the March of Lusatia bordered on the Northern March, which was lost in the Great Slav Rising of 983 and re-established as the Margraviate of Brandenburg under the Ascanian margrave Albert the Bear in 1157. In the south, the Margraviate of Meissen likewise arose from the former Marca Geronis, its western part became the nucleus of the later Electorate of Saxony, while the eastern Milceni lands emerged as Upper Lusatia.


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