Editing Lusatia (section)

===Early history===
According to the earliest records, the area was settled by culturally [[Celts|Celtic]] tribes. Later, around 100&nbsp;BC, the Germanic [[Semnones]] settled in that area. The name of the region may be derived from that of the [[Lugii|Ligians]]. From around 600 onwards, [[Polabian Slavs|West Slavic]] tribes known as the [[Milceni]] and Lusici settled permanently in the region.

In the 10th century, the region came under the influence of the [[Kingdom of Germany]], starting with the 928 eastern campaigns of King [[Henry the Fowler]]. Until 963 the Lusatian tribes were subdued by the [[Duchy of Saxony|Saxon]] margrave [[Gero]] and upon his death two years later, the [[March of Lusatia]] was established on the territory of today's Lower Lusatia and remained with the [[Holy Roman Empire]], while the adjacent [[Northern March]] again got lost in the Slavic uprising of 983. The later Upper Lusatian region of the Milceni lands up to the [[Silesia]]n border at the [[Kwisa]] river at first was part of the [[Margraviate of Meissen]] under Margrave [[Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen|Eckard I]].

[[File:Polska 992 - 1025.png|thumb|Poland under [[Bolesław I the Brave]] with Lusatia and marked battles of the [[German–Polish War (1003–1018)]]]]
At the same time the [[Polans (western)|Polan]] duke of the later [[Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385)|Kingdom of Poland]] raised claims to the Lusatian lands and upon the death of Emperor [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto III]] in 1002, Margrave [[Gero II, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark|Gero II]] lost Lusatia to the Polish Duke [[Boleslaus I of Poland|Boleslaw I]] the Brave, who took the region in his conquests,  acknowledged by Henry II first in the same year in Merseburg and later in the 1018 [[Peace of Bautzen]], Lusatia became part of his territory; however, Germans and Poles continued to struggle over the administration of the region. It was regained in a 1031 campaign by Emperor [[Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor|Conrad II]] in favour of the Saxon German rulers of the Meissen [[House of Wettin]] and the [[House of Ascania|Ascanian]] margraves of [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], who purchased the March of (Lower) Lusatia in 1303.

In 1367 the Brandenburg elector [[Otto V, Duke of Bavaria|Otto V of Wittelsbach]] finally sold Lower Lusatia to King [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Karel]] of [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]], thereby becoming a [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown land]].