East Elbian

English Alternative forms east Elbian, east-Elbian Etymology From en east + en Elbian. Adjective - East Elbian en 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. en 1986 Peasant Studies 14 276 By contrast, there were in 1866 in all seven east-Elbian Prussian provinces 12,150 noble estates. en 2016 w:Peter H. Wilson The Holy Roman Empire 83 Penguin 2017 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 German: de ostelbisch