Serbian–Sorbian relations

The Serbs call themselves Srbi, the Sorbs ({{langx|sr|Lužički Srbi}}) call themselves Serbja or Serby. Sorbs use the term "South Sorbs" (Južni Serbja) for Serbs.{{cite web |url=http://www.dw.de/lu%C5%BEi%C4%8Dki-srbi-njema%C4%8Dki-slaveni-protestantske-vjere/a-4168316|title=Lužički Srbi - njemački Slaveni protestantske vjere|access-date=6 December 2014 |author=Deutsche Welle |author-link=Deutsche Welle |language=Croatian}}

The two ethnic groups may share the ethnonym due to them having been a single ethnic group before the 6th century.{{cite book|author=Tomasz Kamusella|title=The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzEqAQAAIAAJ|date=15 January 2009|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-55070-4|quote=As explained above in detail, the Serbs and the Sorbs may share their ethnonym, because they had formed a single ethnic group, perhaps prior to the 6th century.}}

A genetic study of Sorbs showed that they share greatest affinity with Poles, while results were compared to Serbia and Montenegro due to historical hypotheses, showing that "The Sorbs were most different to Serbia and Montenegro, likely reflecting the considerable geographical distance between the two populations."{{cite journal|title=Genetic variation in the Sorbs of eastern Germany in the context of broader European genetic diversity|doi=10.1038/ejhg.2011.65 | pmid=21559053|pmc=3179365|volume=19|journal=Eur J Hum Genet|pages=995–1001 | last1 = Veeramah | first1 = KR | last2 = Tönjes | first2 = A | last3 = Kovacs | first3 = P | last4 = Gross | first4 = A | last5 = Wegmann | first5 = D | last6 = Geary | first6 = P | last7 = Gasperikova | first7 = D | last8 = Klimes | first8 = I | last9 = Scholz | first9 = M | last10 = Novembre | first10 = J | last11 = Stumvoll | first11 = M|year=2011 |issue=9 }}

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According to Emperor Constantine VII's De Administrando Imperio (950s), an unnamed 7th-century Serbian ruler led the Serbs from their homeland, White Serbia, to settle in the Balkans during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641). The work states that he was the progenitor of the first Serbian dynasty (known as the Vlastimirović), and that he died before the settlement of the Bulgars (680).{{cite book|author=Miloš Blagojević|title=Državna uprava u srpskim srednjovekovnim zemljama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srAVAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Službeni list SRJ|page=14|isbn=9788635504971}}

According to German historian Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi (1735–1802), the Serb archon was a son of Dervan, who was the Duke (dux) of the Surbi, east of the Saale.{{cite book|author=Sava S. Vujić, Bogdan M. Basarić|title=Severni Srbi (ne)zaboravljeni narod|location=Beograd|year=1998|page=40}} This theory was supported by Miloš Milojević,{{cite book|author=Miloš S. Milojević|title=Odlomci Istorije Srba i srpskih jugoslavenskih zemalja u Turskoj i Austriji|url=https://archive.org/details/odlomciistorije00milogoog|year=1872|publisher=U državnoj štampariji|page=[https://archive.org/details/odlomciistorije00milogoog/page/n9 1]}} and Relja Novaković included the possibility that they were relatives in his work.{{cite book|author=Relja Novaković|title=Odakle su Sebl dos̆il na Balkansko poluostrvo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K0BAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Istorijski institut|page=337}}

During World War I one of the most important commanders in the Serbian army was Pavle Jurišić Šturm, a Serbian general, who was according to Serbian sources of Sorbian origin.{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraf.rs/zanimljivosti/1220345-ko-su-luzicki-srbi-upoznajte-nasu-neunistivu-bracu-sa-severa-foto-video|title=KO SU LUŽIČKI SRBI: Upoznajte našu neuništivu braću sa severa (FOTO) (VIDEO)|access-date=6 December 2014 |author=Telegraf |date=20 September 2014 |language=Serbian}} However, he is not mentioned in any Sorbian sources. In 1944 Sorb writer Jurij Chěžka was killed in Serbia, reportedly on his way to join Yugoslav Partisans.{{cite web |url=http://www.rastko.rs/rastko-lu/umetnost/knjizevnost/rbratic-luzicani_l.html|title=Lužički Srbi-Reč na književnoj večeri u Etnografskom muzeju u Beogradu, 1984.|access-date=6 December 2014 |author=Project Rastko |author-link=Project Rastko |language=Serbo-Croatian}} He introduced modern poetry in Sorbian literature.

• {{cite book|author=Mitar S. Vlahović|title=Lužički Srbi i njihova domovina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxDVAAAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Društvo prijatelja Lužičkih Srba u Beogradu}}
• {{cite book|author=Mićo M. Cvijetić|title=Lužički srbi i Jugosloveni: uzajamne literarne veze u periodici za književnost, nauku i kulturu : 1840-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3UTAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Matica srpska}}
• {{cite book|author=Josip Milaković|title=Lužički Srbi: predavanje u društvu za narodno prosjvećivanje|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4I89AQAAMAAJ|year=1920|publisher=Zemaljska Štamparija}}
• {{cite book|title=Lužički Srbi u prošlosti i sadašnjosti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lj5lGwAACAAJ|year=1927|last1 = Novak|first1 = Viktor}}
• {{cite book|title=Lužički srbi i njihov vođa, Dr. Arnošt Muka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvQgywAACAAJ|year=1929|publisher=Društvo prijatelja lužičkih srba}}

• Germany–Serbia relations
• Genetic studies on Serbs

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