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- Silesia[ a ] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.
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Silesia has a diverse culture, including architecture, costumes, cuisine, traditions, and the Silesian language (minority in Upper Silesia). The largest city of the region is Wrocław. Silesia is situated along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border.
Aug 27, 2024 · Silesia consists largely of the basin of the upper and middle Oder River, which flows from southeast to northwest. The region is bounded by the Sudeten mountains to the southwest, by the Beskid range to the south, and by the Kraków-Wieluń plateau to the northeast.
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The Poles, most from the Habsburg-ruled area around Teschen, settled all over Upper Silesia, whereas the Czechs mainly located in the areas around Oppeln, Strehlen and Groß Wartenberg. With the recruitment of Germans from Middle and Western Germany many mine and lumber settlements were established.
Silesia is a populous and resource-rich region, with coal and iron deposits and booming manufacturing. The most important part is its southern tip—Upper Silesia— in Poland. Being one of the largest industrial concentrations of Europe, it has extensive coal and lignite deposits as well as zinc, lead, and iron.
Silesia , Polish Śląsk German Schlesien, Historic region, east-central Europe. It now lies mainly in southwestern Poland, with parts in Germany and the Czech Republic. It was originally a Polish province that became a possession of the Bohemian crown, and thus part of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1335.
Silesia (Polish: Śląsk; German: Schlesien; Latin: Silesia; Silesian: Ślůnsk) is a historical region of Poland. From 1742 to 1945 , it was a province in the east of Prussia and later Germany . In 1945, all of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Red Army .
They are those who live in Haj 've Slezsku' close to Opawa, Bazylei, Würzburg, Dortmund and Fulda. They are those who were expulsed of the country after the Second World War and say 'wir fühlen uns als Schlesier,' as Kadłubek writes in his book Myśleć Śląsk ['Thinking Silesia'].
