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	CIESZYN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cieszyn (; Czech: ''Těšín'') is a town in southern Poland with 37,300 inhabitants (1995), situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Bielsko-Biala Voivodship (1975-1998).
		Cieszyn lies on the Olza, a tributary of the Oder river, opposite to the Cesky Tesin ().
		Following the Czechoslovak invasion of Poland in January 1919, the city was divided in 1920 by the Conference of Ambassadors, a body formed by the Versailles Treaty, leaving a sizeable Polish minority on the Czechoslovak side.
	www.loadboston.com /Cieszyn (346 words)

	The Duchy of Cieszyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Only the southernmost portion remained Austrian and it consisted of the Duchy of Opava and the Duchy of Cieszyn.
		As in the Cieszyn region the Polish-speaking group was predominant, Poland tried to incorporate the Duchy.
		The Duchy of Cieszyn is shown on the map of Silesia (right, at the bottom).
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/ciesz.htm (165 words)

	Cieszyn
		Silesian Cieszyn, Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, Hungary and Germany have all been closely connected with the town at some point in its history, and this long past is as both complicated and fascinating as the rich history of Silesia and the Duchy of Cieszyn.
		Cieszyn, one of the oldest towns in Poland, is situated in the Silesian Voivodship on the Olza River, opposite Český Těšín.
		From around 1290 Cieszyn was the capital of the autonomous Duchy of Cieszyn, a region that later became Cieszyn Silesia.
	www.staypoland.com /about_cieszyn.htm (625 words)

	Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Bielsko-Biała (PL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bielsko-Bia³a is situated at the Bia³a river, tributary of the river Wis³a (Weichsel, Vistula) in the Beskidy mountains near the border to the Czech Republic and to Slovakia.
		The river formed the border between the old duchies of Cieszyn (Teschen) and O¶wiêcim (Auschwitz), later between the Duchy of Silesia and the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austrian monarchy.
		The Piast duchy of Cieszyn (Teschen) came in possession of the Bohemian crown in 1327.
	www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-295.htm (411 words)

	Cieszyn.pl - serwis informacyjny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to legend, Cieszyn was established in 810 by the three brothers Leszko, Bolko and Cieszko in memory of their meeting after a long separation.
		Historians claim that Cieszyn was established at the end of the 10th century.
		At the end of the 13th century, Cieszyn became the capital of the Duchy of Cieszyn, ruled by the Piast dynasty until the middle of the 17th century when it was taken over by the Habsburg dynasty.
	www.cieszyn.pl /?iLang=4 (199 words)

	Duchy of Cieszyn (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Duchy of Cieszyn Teschen (Polish: Księstwo Cieszyńskie, Czech: Těšínské knížectví) was an independent duchy in the area of Teschen (Cieszyn Silesia).
		In 1708 the duchy of Teschen was given to the dukes of Lorraine as compensation for the loss of Montferrat, until the Lorrain - Austrian emperor Francis I granted it to his eldest surviving daughter, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, who married Prince Albert of Saxony, who thus became (the only) Duke of Saxe-Teschen.
		At the end of the First World War local self-governments were established and the duchy was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
	www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_Duchy_of_Cieszyn (248 words)

	Multimedialna Polska
		Historians claim that Cieszyn came into existence at the end of the 10th century as a fortress of the Polanin state.
		At the end of the 13th century, Cieszyn became the capital of the Duchy of Cieszyn, ruled by the Piast dynasty until the mid-17th century, and later governed by the Habsburgs.
		The original can be seen in the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, and this is one of the few gothic stone statues surviving in the former Duchy of Cieszyn.
	www.naszlaku.pl /dane/prezent/_prez_gm/4_cieszyn/cieszyn_ang.htm (411 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Heraldy - Austria-Hungary
		The Duchy of Guastalla (now part of Italy) was created in 1621, and was since 1539 (as a county) a possession of the Gonzaga family.
		In 1748 it was joined with the Duchy Parma and Piacenza, and became part of Austria together with Parma and Piacenza in 1847.
		The Duchy of Teschen (Cieszyn) was created from the County of Upper Silezia and has been part of Austria-Hungary until 1918 when it was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/heraldry/austria-hungary (4057 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cieszyn Silesia (Polish: ÅlÄsk CieszyÅski, Czech: TÄÅ¡ÃnskÃ© Slezsko or TÄÅ¡Ãnsko, German: Teschener Schlesien) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, between the Vistula and Oder rivers.
		The historical boundaries of the region are identical to those of the independent Duchy of Cieszyn.
		The region is separated from the rest of Silesia (and Upper Silesia in particular) by Vistula river (the part beginning in StrumieÅ neighbourhood), while from the region of Lesser Poland by BiaÅa and Barania GÃ³ra mountain, the highest peak of the region (1220 metres a.s.l.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cieszyn_Silesia (240 words)

	Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Cieszyn (PL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cieszyn was first mentioned in documents in the 12th century.
		The Duchy of Teschen belonged to the Bohemian Crown from 1625.
		In 1939 Cieszyn was occupied by Germany and became part of Upper Silesia (except Èeský Tì¹ín, which became part of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia).
	www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-163.htm (266 words)

	Hotel Gambit Cieszyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cieszyn is an old monumental town, which is beautifully situated on hills nearby the well known touristically atractive places of Beskid Śląski such as Szczyrk, Wisła, Ustroń.
		The Castle Hill - had already been settled by the 5th century B.C. The fortified stronghold founded in the 9th century was raised to the rank of castellany sometime before 1155 and in 1290 it became the capital of the independent Duchy of Cieszyn.
		Cieszyn Historical Library - the building was built on basements of a mint that was founded by Mieszko I. Dukes of Cieszyn had the right to mint their own money from the 13th century till the expiry of the dynasty in 1655.
	www.hotelgambit.com.pl /en/our_city.html (558 words)

	Sarmatian Review XVI.1: Kevin Hannan
		Zaolzie is a part of the former Duchy of Teschen (Cieszyn in Polish), now part of the Czech Republic, which was ruled from 1290 until 1653 by a branch of the Piasts, or the Polish royal dynasty.
		During the Middle Ages, the borders of the Polish, Czech, and Hungarian kingdoms met in the Beskid Mountains east of the city.
		In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Beskid Mountains in the southern half of the Duchy were colonized by shepherds of mixed Romanian-East Slavic-Slovak-Polish ethnicity.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/196/Hannan.html (1708 words)

	Miejskie Centrum Informacji Turystycznej w Bielsku-Białej (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Built in the second half of the 14th century by Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn, it substituted an earlier, wooden strongold.
		The castle belonged to the Piasts from Cieszyn, the Hungarian Sunneghs and finally the Sułkowski princes (until 1945).
		Between 1560 and 1654 it was used by Protestants, whose religion had been recognized as the official faith in the Duchy of Cieszyn.
	www.it.bielsko.pl /GB/miastozabe.htm (1077 words)

	International Civic Heraldry - Poland - CIESZYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cieszyn was founded in the 8th century but became a town before 1263.
		It consists of a castle with an open gate situated on a river (Cieszyn is situated on the Olza River).
		Over the castle there is a yellow eagle, the symbol of Upper Silesia to which the Duchy of Cieszyn belonged in the Middle Ages.
	www.ngw.nl /int/pol/c/cieszyn.htm (177 words)

	Informat.io on Dukes Of Silesia
		Smaller part to the Duchy of Brzeg, Duchy of Opole, and finally to the Duchy of Złotoryja (1449/1454)
		Upto 1290 Cieszyn belonged to the Duchy of Racibórz
		Duchy of Zator became a part of Poland (in 1494)
	www.informat.io /?title=dukes-of-silesia (538 words)

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		1315-1317 - a new Duchy of Oswiecim, independent of Poland and Bohemia and having its capital in the city, arises upon the division of the duchy of Cieszyn.
		1564 - at the Warsaw sejm, king Sigismund August issues privileges of incorporation recognizing the duchy of Oswiecim and the duchy of Zator (purchased by king John Olbracht in 1494) as integral parts of the Polish crown.
		Upon full incorporation, these duchies, as the powiat of Silesia, become part of the administrative territory of the voivodeship of Cracow while retaining their ducal titles.
	www.auschwitz.org.pl /html/eng/historia_KL/oswiecim_ok.html (2228 words)

	Silesia - ROFLPedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast duchy, which subsequently became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th century and passed with that crown to the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria in 1526.
		Although Fryderyk Wilhelm, the last male Piast Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen died in 1625, rule of the duchy passed to his sister Elżbieta Lukrecja until her death in 1653.
		In October 1938, Cieszyn Silesia (the disputed area west of the Olza river, also called Zaolzie - 906 km² with 258,000 inhabitants), was retaken by Poland from Czechoslovakia, in accord with the Munich Agreement that surrendered Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.
	www.roflpedia.com /wiki/index.php?title=Silesia (3379 words)

	Cieszyn trams
		Cieszyn and Český Těšín are towns on the River Olza situated on both sides of the border which divides the former Cieszyn Duchy into Polish and Czech parts.
		This website presents the history of the Cieszyn (Teschen) tramline and the equipment used on it, and documents everything that has survived to the present day.
		They belong to the collection of the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia in Cieszyn and the private collections of Henryk Wawreczka, Antoni Pasterny and Krzysztof Puzik.
	www.muzeum-cieszyn.ox.pl /tramwaje/indexen.html (189 words)

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		The Zebrzydowice district lies in the southern part of Cieszyn Silesia on the river Piotrówka.
		During the period of Czech and, later, Habsburg rule, it existed as part of the Duchy of Cieszyn.
		Situated close to Cieszyn is the area of Kaczyce.
	www.zebrzydowice.pl /english.htm (509 words)

	www.um.oswiecim.pl - Content
		Years 1312 - 1317 - From partition of Cieszyn Duchy there was established an independent, neither from Polish nor from Bohemian Kingdoms, new duchy, with capital in Oswiecim, which an independent sovereign became prince Wladyslaw.
		(Zator Duchy was in 1494r bought by the king Jan Olbracht.) These Duchies since the moment of full incorporation administratively joint the Cracow district, as the Silesian administrative region, simultaneously maintained their own titles of Duchies.
		Greatest calamities of the former town were fires, and in half of XVII century, a period of Swedish wars began an economic regression of Oswiecim.
	www.um.oswiecim.pl /pl/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=61 (1770 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - The Duchy Doesn't Spank - Krolestwo Polskie
		- - The Duchy Doesn't Spank - Krolestwo Polskie (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140471)
		There he stood, with his crown placed upon his head robed in the finest clothing, Boleslaw King of Poland, Count of Cieszyn, Krakowskie, Sandomierskie, and Sacz, Highly regarded by the nobles in the country, a very generous and wise leader and ruler.
		Today was one of the most important days in the whole Kingdom, nobles from the Duchy of Silesia, Krakow, and Counties Lubusz, Czersk, and the Bischopric of Kaliskie, and Wielkopolska rode for Cieszyn to watch the event.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=140471 (2634 words)

	Cieszyn - Poland - SkyscraperCity
		In actual fact, Cieszyn came into being in the 10th century as a stronghold built to defend Poland’s southern marches.
		From around 1290 Cieszyn was the capital of the autonomous Duchy of Cieszyn, the region which later became Cieszyn Silesia.
		What were previously Cieszyn’s outskirts on the left bank of the River Olza were incorporated into Czechoslovakia and became a new town.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=211557 (265 words)

	Revolution and Rebirth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Napoleon used the Duchy as a pawn in his political game and in 1812 called upon the Lithuanians to rebel as an excuse to attack Russia.
		In 1815 at the Congress of Vienna the Duchy was partitioned and a large part went to Russia.
		The Poles liberated Wilno from the Lithuanians in 1919, reoccupied the area around Cieszyn (which had been invaded by the Czechs) and annexed the Western Ukraine when the Ukrainian Republic, which had been supported by Poland, collapsed under attack from Soviet forces.
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/Revolution.html (2268 words)

	Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		At the age of 15, when he was brought to Vienna, he was established in the Silesian Duchy of Cieszyn, which had been mediatized and granted to his father by the emperor in 1722.
		He succeeded his father as Duke of Lorraine in 1729, but the emperor, at the end of the War of the Polish Succession, desiring to compensate his candidate Stanislaus Leszczynski for the loss of his crown in 1735, persuaded Francis to exchange Lorraine for the grand duchy of Tuscany.
		On February 12, 1736, Francis and Maria Theresa were married, and they went for a short time to Florence, when he succeeded to the grand duchy on the death of John Gaston, the last of the ruling house of Medici.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=148457 (491 words)

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