East Elbian

East Elbian

English

Alternative forms

• east Elbian, east-Elbian

Etymology

From east + Elbian.

Adjective

East Elbian (not comparable)

1. (now chiefly historical) East of the river Elbe, as an area of German or Germanic activity; pertaining to the informal East Elbia region of the German Empire.
   • 1986, Peasant Studies, vol. 14, p. 276:

     By contrast, there were in 1866 in all seven east-Elbian Prussian provinces 12,150 noble estates.

   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 83:

     Despite the impressive scope of its activity, Ottonian Christianization rested on insecure foundations, with few churches and only a tenuous hold on most of the East Elbian and Baltic populations.

Translations

Translations

German: ostelbisch (de)