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‘This was once one of the dirtiest areas in East Germany,” says Sören, my tour guide from IBA Tours, as our bikes swoosh through the Lusatian Lake District.

The company has earned billions over the years with its Lusatian lignite.

The Czechs belong to the Slavic race, and according to the usually accepted division they form, together with the Poles and the almost extinct Lusatians, the group of the Western Slavs.

The sandstone range of the Elbe unites in the east with the low Lusatian group, along the east of which runs the best road from northern Germany to Bohemia.

The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.