 There are currently between 45,000 and 60,000 Sorbs living in Saxony (Upper Lusatia region).Today's Sorb minority is the remainder of the Slavic population which settled throughout Saxony in the early Middle Ages and which over time slowly assimilated into the German speaking society.Many geographic names in Saxony are of Sorbic origin (including the three largest cities Chemnitz, Dresden and Leipzig).