Zittau (Sorbian/Lusatian Žitawa, Czech Žitava) is a city in the south east of Saxony, Germany and capital of the Löbau-Zittau district close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. As of 2005, there are 26,224 people in the city. This article or section should be merged with List of Sorbian languages The Sorbian languages are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany. ... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... Löbau-Zittau is a Kreis (district) in the east of Saxony, Germany. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The inner city of Zittau still shows its original beauty with many houses out of several aeras of german architecture. There is the famous townhall in an italian style, the church of sanct John with its medieval heritage. And the big storing building - one of the oldest of its kind in whole Germany. Townhall c. ...

History

Zittau was a member of the Six-City League of Upper Lusatia with other important villages of the region. That time the city got a special name - it's been calle "Die Reiche" (the rich) because of the rich citizens living in this city. This once superior situation now just can be seen in some extraordinary buildings and the rich cemetries of the city. One of the most important trading goods of this early age in the 16th century was beer. Later in the 18th and 19th century textiles became important too, not that astonishing in the textil region of Upper-Lusatia. After the reunification in 1990 most of the big textile-enterprises that survived the time of the GDR nearly without any changes and any further investment closed down in just a few years. The city lost most of its economical strength. Because of its missing link to good infrastructure the city still suffers, but direct connection to the next motoway between Bautzen and Görlitz is planned. There are roughly 3500 students studying at the university of applied sciences Zittau/Görlitz. The League of six towns of Upper Lusatia (German: Oberlausitzer Sechsstädtebund) was a historical alliance of six towns in the Upper Lusatia region. ... Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice) is a historical region between the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe river in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and the... Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ... Bautzen (pronounced , listen, until 1868: Budissin; Upper Sorbian: BudyÅ¡in; Lower Sorbian: BudyÅ¡yn; , listen; Polish: Budziszyn; Czech: Budyšín) is a city in eastern Saxony, Germany, and capital of the eponymous district. ... Görlitz ( pronunciation, Lusatian: Zhorjelc, Czech ZhoÅ™elec) is a town in Germany on the river Neiße, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony, opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, with which it was united until 1945. ...

Coordinates: 50°54′N 14°50′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...