Lubusz Land

Historical affiliations of the Lubusz Land
Duchy of Poland 960s-1025
Kingdom of Poland 1025-1138
Duchy of Silesia, Province of Poland 1138-1173
Duchy of Wrocław, Province of Poland 1173-1177
Duchy of Głogów, Province of Poland 1177-1181
Duchy of Wrocław, Province of Poland 1181-1241
Duchy of Lubusz, Province of Poland 1241-1242
Duchy of Wrocław, Province of Poland 1242-1248
Duchy of Legnica, Province of Poland 1248-1249
Margraviate of Brandenburg ca. 1250-1356
Electorate of Brandenburg 1356-1373
Bohemian Crown, Electorate of Brandenburg 1373-1415
Electorate of Brandenburg 1415-1618
Brandenburg-Prussia 1618-1701
Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1871
German Reich, Kingdom of Prussia 1871-1918
German Reich, Free State of Prussia 1919-1933
German Reich, Free State of Prussia 1933-1945
Allied-occupied Germany, Soviet occupation zone 1945-1949  German Democratic Republic 1949-1990		Polish People's Republic 1945-1989
Federal Republic of Germany 1990–present		Republic of Poland 1989–present

Lubusz Land (Polish: Ziemia Lubuska, Lubusz; German: Land Lebus) is a historical region and cultural landscape in Poland and Germany on both sides of the Oder river.

Originally the settlement area of the West Slavic Leubuzzi tribe, the swampy area was located east of March of Brandenburg and west of Greater Poland, south of Pomerania and north of Silesia. Presently its eastern part lies within the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship, the western part with its historical capital Lebus (Lubusz) in the German state of Brandenburg.

When in 928 King Henry I of Germany crossed the Elbe river to conquer the lands of the Veleti, he did not subdue the Leubuzzi people settling beyond the Spree. Their territory was either already inherited by the first Polish ruler Mieszko I (~960-992) or conquered by him in the early period of his rule. According to the chronicler Widukind of Corvey, in the beginning of Mieszkos' reign he ruled over the tribe called the Licicaviki, now commonly identified with the Leubuzzi of the Lubusz Land. After Mieszkos' death the whole country was inherited by his son Duke, and later King, Bolesław I Chrobry. After the German Northern March got lost in a 983 Slavic rebellion, Duke Bolesław and King Otto III of Germany in 991 agreed at Quedlinburg to jointly conquer the remaining Lutician territory, Otto coming from the west and Bolesław starting from Lubusz in the east. However, they did not succeed. Instead Otto's successor King Henry II of Germany in the rising conflict over the adjacent Lusatian march concluded an alliance with the Lutici and repeatedly attacked Bolesław.

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