Editing Sorbs (section)

===Late modern period===
[[File:Bramborski Serbski Casnik.jpg|thumb|upright|First issue of the ''Bramborski Serbski Casnik'' Sorbian newspaper, 1848]]
The [[Congress of Vienna]], in 1815, divided Lusatia between [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] and [[Kingdom of Saxony|Saxony]]. More and more bans on the use of [[Sorbian languages]] appeared from then until 1835 in Prussia and Saxony; emigration of the Sorbs, mainly to the town of [[Serbin, Texas|Serbin]] in [[Texas]] and to Australia, increased. In 1848, 5000 Sorbs signed a petition to the Saxon Government, in which they demanded equality for the Sorbian language with the German one in churches, courts, schools and Government departments. From 1871 the whole of Lusatia became a part of united Germany and was divided between two parts; Prussia ([[Province of Silesia|Silesia]] and [[Province of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]]), and Saxony.

In 1871 the industrialization of the region and German immigration began; official Germanization intensified. Persecution of the Sorbs under German rule became increasingly harsh throughout the 19th century. Slavs were labeled inferior to Germanic peoples, and in 1875, the use of Sorbian was banned in German schools. As a result, almost the entire Sorbian population was bilingual by the end of the 19th century.{{Efn|name=Remus|"[A]nti-Sorbian policies throughout the Sorbian area of settlement got increasingly aggressive and, unsurprisingly, saw their climax under Nazi rule. Sorbs were declared to be "Wendish-speaking Germans" and a "Wendenabteilung was established to monitor the process of assimilation..."{{sfn|Remus|2014|p=4}} }}
[[File:Braugasse 1 HY.JPG|thumb|The place where [[Domowina]] was founded in [[Hoyerswerda]] (''Wojerecy'') in 1912]]

During [[World War I]], one of the most venerated [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbian generals]] was [[Pavle Jurišić Šturm|Pavle Jurišić Šturm (Paul Sturm)]], a Sorb from [[Görlitz]], [[Province of Silesia]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}