East Elbian

alternative east Elbian · alternative east-Elbian

1. historicalnot comparableEast of the river Elbe, as an area of German or Germanic activity; pertaining to the informal East Elbia region of the German Empire.

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

   1986, Peasant Studies, volume 14, page 276

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   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.

   2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 83