Milceni

The Milzener were a westslawischer tribe in the territory of the Upper Lusatia, which is first mentioned in the description of the Bavarian geographer from the middle of the 9th century. Here it was 30 civitates - settlement chambers, possibly already with a central castle complex in the center of the associated settlements - attributed.

The precise definition of the settlement area of ​​the Milzener is controversial in research. It consisted essentially a Gefildelandschaft with fertile loess soil and stretching for about 50 kilometers from east to west and about 20 kilometers in north-south direction. The boundary to the north is likely to have formed the swampy and partly barren plain to the south and the Lusatian mountains. In the west, the mountains form Burkauer west of Kamenz a natural tie. To the east, the adjacent area ( the ) Besunzane, the distinction is less clear. After the Milzeners the region was referred to Bautzen in written sources from the 10th to 12th century as Gau Milsca (see Thietmar of Merseburg ). Even today lives the Slavic people of the Sorbs in the region.