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	SILESIA - LoveToKnow Article on SILESIA
		The decisive factor in the separation of Silesia from Poland was furnished by a partition of the Polish crowns territories in 1138.
		Silesia is divided by a projecting limb of Moravia into two small parts of territory, of which the western part is flanked by the Sudetic mountains, namely the Altvater Gebirge; while the eastern part is flanked by the Carpathians, namely the Jablunka Gebirge with their highest peak the Lissa Hora (4346 ft.).
		Silesia, and by the Oder, with its affluents the Oppa and the Olsa.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SILESIA.htm (5079 words)

	Encyclopedia: Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire and passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526.
		According to Tacitus, in the 1st century Silesia was inhabited by a multi-ethnic league dominated by the Lugii/Lygii.
		Silesia remained part of the lands of the Bohemian crown until 1740, under kings from Czech, Polish, and German dynasties.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Silesia (7429 words)

	silesia
		Silesia was in the middle ages a Polish province that became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire and passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526.
		According to Tacitus, in the 1st century Silesia was inhabited by a multi-ethnic league dominated by the.
		Czech Silesia is inhabited by the Czechs, Moravians and Poles.
	www.fact-library.com /silesia.html (1727 words)

	The Social/Cultural Society of the Germans in the Opole District
		Silesia: in the course of a millennium of history under the rule of different states and empires, unites the cultural heritage...
		Silesia: in the course of a millennium of history under the rule of different states and empires, unites the cultural heritage of numerous peoples and dynasties.
		The eastern part including Kattowitz and the majority of the mining area was ceded to Poland, the western part remained in Germany as a new administrative district with Opole as capital.
	www.tskn.vdg.pl /en/en_history.htm (915 words)

	Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen
		The Banat is bordered by the middle course of the Danube, by the Theiss and the Marosch and by the eastern frontier of Transylvania.
		In October 1944, the eastern government district Gumbinnen was the first territory of the old Reich to be the scene of ground fighting between the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army and of the first random massacres of the civil population.
		52 percent of the population of the province was Catholic, particularly in Upper Silesia and the County of Glatz.
	www.z-g-v.de /english/aktuelles?id=56 (14347 words)

	GERMANY - LoveToKnow Article on GERMANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This hollow is shut in on the east by the Sudetic group, in which the Altvater risesto almost 4900 ft. The eastern portion of the group, called the Gesenke, slopes gently away to the valley of the Oder, which affords an open route for the inter.
		The population is thickest in upper Silesia around Beuthen (coal-fields), around Ratibor, Neisse and Waldenburg (coal-fields), around Zittau (kingdom of Saxony), in the Elbe valley around Dresden, in the districts of Zwickau and Leipzig as far as the Saale, on the northern slopes of the Harz and around Bielefeld in Westphalia.
		Lead is produced in considerable quantities in upper Silesia, the Harz Mountains, in the Prussian province of Nassau, in the Saxon Erzgebirge and in the Sauerland.
	81.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GERMANY.htm (18943 words)

	Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		of Saxony was incoporated into Silesia, while the northernmost part of Silesia, the enclave of Swiebodzin (Schwiebus) became part of the Province of Brandenburg (marked in red on the map of Brandenburg).
		German inhabitants of the province either escaped or were expelled from Silesia after 1945 and Poles from the formerly Polish regions in the East settled there.
		The map shows the territory of Silesia at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/sil.htm (290 words)

	Cieszyn Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cieszyn Silesia (Polish: Śląsk Cieszyński, Czech: Těšínské Slezsko) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, between the Vistula and Oder rivers.
		It covers the area between the north-western part of the Carpathians, Oświęcim Valley, part of the Silesian Valley and eastern Sudetes.
		Currently the Cieszyn Silesia is one of the euroregions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cieszyn_Silesia (93 words)

	Germany's Expellees and Border Changes - An Endless Dilemma? Look into one of the least-known chapters of World War II ...
		In Silesia, expellee groups, irredentists, and neo-Nazis are spreading propaganda and ethnic Germans there as well as in other parts of Poland feel neglected and unwanted by Germany.
		The troubles were and are due partly to the fact that Germany as a nation state did not come into being until 1871, that the Habsburg Austrians, also German, expanded their territory to include much of Central-Eastern Europe, and that the borders of principalities, duchies, and kingdoms changed like the pieces in a kaleidoscope.
		But by then most of Silesia was under Habsburg control, Eastern Brandenburg and Pomerania under the Electors of Brandenburg, and East Prussia under the rule of the Teutonic Knights.
	www.germanlife.com /Archives/1995/9506_01.html (3789 words)

	prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Being predominantly a north and east German state, Prussia had a large Protestant majority, although there were substantial Catholic populations in the Rhineland; also a number of districts East Prussia, Posen, Silesia and West Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles (and some areas, such as the East Prussian Ermland, of Catholic Germans).
		Under Frederick II (Frederick the Great), Prussia seized the province of Silesia from Austria, and defended it through the Seven Years War which ended in 1763 with Prussia as the dominant state of eastern Germany.
		Everything east of the Oder-Neisse line, including Silesia, Pomerania, eastern Brandenburg and East Prussia, was annexed by Poland (with the northern third of East Prussia, including Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, going to the Soviet Union; today it is a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland.).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Prussia (2165 words)

	Eastern Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eastern Silesia was formerly the Austrian crownland Austrian Silesia, which wasoccupied by Czechoslovakia after World War I.
		Eastern Silesia is remembered today by philatelists, since the plans forthe plebiscite included the issuance of special postage stamps.
		The postal history of the territory is quite complicated, with both overprinted and unoverprinted stamps of the contendingcountries (and Austria) in use at different post offices at different times.
	www.therfcc.org /eastern-silesia-335661.html (194 words)

	EU Border Identities Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Zgorzelec lies in the Wojwodship (region) of Lower Silesia, and in the Powiat (county) of Zgorzelec.
		Before the Second World War, Görlitz was a prosperous large town, the gateway to the German province of Silesia, which was ceded to Poland in 1945.
		The town's historical role as the gateway to Silesia and Eastern Europe was lost.
	www.euborder.soton.ac.uk /commun02b.htm (1034 words)

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		Especially in Upper Silesia modern architecture - also called "International Style" was instrumentalized in the nationalist contest for the mutual boasting of national cultural achievements and the demonstration of progress and economic dynamism.
		Thus, paradoxically, in the border region of Silesia, even the "International Style" of modern architecture could be instrumentalized as an expression of nationalist ideas and of economical and cultural superiority.
		Furthermore, both parts of Silesia and of the German Provinz Posen shared a common psychological barrier as border provinces which, on the one hand, wanted to overtop their not-beloved neighbor, and on the other hand had to promote themselves within their own countries.
	www.artmargins.com /content/feature/stortkuhl.html (4333 words)

	Eastern Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern Silesia was formerly the Austrian crownland Austrian Silesia, which was occupied by Czechoslovakia after World War I.
		Eastern Silesia is remembered today by philatelists, since the plans for the plebiscite included the issuance of special postage stamps.
		In-depth article on Eastern Silesia and its postal history
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Silesia (220 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Silesia was the first region in which the idea of emigration emerged.
		Her family stayed in Silesia longer than some and her descriptions of occupied Glatz and surrounding villages were very interesting.
		This story starts in Danzig, eastern Prussia, and the author and her family are forced to make a decision about leaving before the Russian invasion.
	members.aol.com /BeallComp/biblio.htm (522 words)

	Eastern Silesia 1918 - 1920
		This decision incensed the Czechoslovak legions in Russia.
		Because the Eastern Silesia was last area with unknown borders in Bohemia/Moravia, it was needed to wait with the monetary reform replacing the Austrian currency with the Czechoslovak one for a setting of borders.
		Because the Parisian Conference set the borders in Eastern Silesia and exact date of their validity, the Czechoslovak Finance Minister Rašín was allowed to prepare the monetary reform for Feb. 26, 1919.
	czechphilatelist.tripod.com /snejdarek (3705 words)

	Plebiscite issues make interesting collection
		Both Czechs and Poles lived in parts of Eastern Silesia, and they were unable to reach agreement on where the border should be drawn.
		Eastern Silesia is unique in that the proposed plebiscite was not under IACC auspices, and, while plebiscite stamps for the region were issued by both the Czechoslovakian and Polish governments, the plebiscite was never held.
		After WWII, the German population was expelled and replaced by Poles from eastern Poland, and the city was renamed Kwidzyn.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/plebiscites_20030526/refreshercourse.asp (1683 words)

	Eastern Silesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eastern Silesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Eastern Silesia is remembered today by (A collector and student of postage stamps) philatelists, since the plans for the plebiscite included the issuance of special (A token that postal fees have been paid) postage stamps.
		The postal history of the territory is quite complicated, with both overprinted and unoverprinted stamps of the contending countries (and Austria) in use at different post offices at different times.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/eastern_silesia.htm (233 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Being predominantly a northern and eastern German state, Prussia had a large Protestant majority, although there were substantial Roman Catholic populations in the Rhineland, while a number of districts in Posen, Silesia, West Prussia, and the Warmia and Masuria regions of East Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles.
		Everything east of the Oder-Neisse line, including Silesia, Pomerania, eastern Brandenburg and East Prussia, was included within the new borders of Poland (with the northern third of East Prussia, including Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, going to the Soviet Union; today it is a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland).
		These expulsions, together with the nationalisation of land by the Communist regime in East Germany, destroyed the junkers as a class and marked the effective end of Prussia as a social and political entity; the East German bureaucracy is seen by many as a "Red" continuation of the Prussian tradition, however.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Prussia (2373 words)

	MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA
		The Medical University of Silesia is the largest medical school in Poland.
		In 1971 the Headquarters of the Medical University of Silesia were moved to Katowice.
		The Medical University of Silesia consists of three faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Division of Nursing in Katowice (the one that carries lectures in English), Faculty of Medicine and Division of Dentistry in Zabrze and Faculty of Pharmacy and Division of Medical Analytics in Sosnowiec.
	www.ceebd.co.uk /ceeed/un/po/po059.htm (750 words)

	Proto-industrialization and demesne lordship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although it is widely held that the noble landlords were important proto-industrial entrepreneurs, a systematic analysis of the relationship between the feudal landlords and their rural subjects’ proto-industrial activities has never been attempted.
		The entrepreneurial role of the Eastern European feudal lords and their direct earnings from feudal rents have thus been exaggerated, while the economic significance of their feudal monopolies over the consumption activities of their rural proto-industrial subjects has been all but ignored.
		It provides the first general overview of the literature on Eastern European proto-industrial development, advances new arguments on the basis of a detailed regional study, and compares regional findings with those from other Eastern European societies.
	www.univie.ac.at /Wirtschaftsgeschichte/P_CermanE2.html (769 words)

	Holocaust of WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was located 37 miles west of Krakow (Cracow), near the prewar German-Polish border in Eastern Upper Silesia, an area annexed to Germany in 1939.
		Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march to the city of Wodzislaw in the western part of Upper Silesia.
		SS General prominently involved in the Murder of Eastern European Jews, including Atrocities in Estonia, Minsk, and Mogilev and the Suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
	child2him.tripod.com /id9.html (5521 words)

	GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland) - Online Information article about GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lusatia (Lausitz), the eastern portion of the kingdom of Saxony and the adjacent portion of Prussia watered by the upper See also:
		This hollow is shut in on the east by the Sudetic group, in which the Altvater rises to almost 4900 ft. The eastern portion of the group, called the Gesenke, slopes gently away to the valley of the Oder, which affords an open route for the inter-See also:
		Jurassic beds dipping towards the Danube; and at its eastern extremity this band is continuous with a synclinal -of Jurassic beds, running parallel to the western border of the Bohemian massif, but separated from it by a narrow See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GERMANY_Ger_Deutschland_.html (5121 words)

	Eastern Sudety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This part of the eastern Sudety is recommended only for tougher walkers and cross-country skiers, due to the size of the territory and small number of refuges or mountain huts.
		Of particular fascination for Dutch visitors is the story of Princess Marianne van Nassau-Oranje (1810-1883), who owing to tragic circumstances was forced to leave her homeland and make a new home for herself here in Lower Silesia.
		Ladek Zdroj is the oldest health resort in Lower Silesia with six springs rich in sulphur and radium, one of which was named after the Dutch princess Marianne, although this is now called "Dabrowka".
	www.przewodnikdolnyslask.wroclaw.pl /Pliki/English/eastern.htm (1217 words)

	Chronology 1922
		The British government appealed to the Dominions for support in the Near Eastern crisis (the British strongly supported the Greek government), a request rejected by most of the Dominion governments.
		Under the terms of the agreement, the Allies agreed to return Eastern Thrace and Adrianople to Turkey and Turkey accepted the neutralization of the Straits under international control.
		With the evacuation of Japanese forces from eastern Siberia, the Soviet Russian government was free to eliminate the buffer zone formed by the Far Eastern Republic and annexed the territory.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1922.htm (2036 words)

	Eisenhower Telegram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the conclusion of World War II more than fifteen million Germans were driven from their homes in central and eastern Europe.
		Detailed reports from reliable observers including an officer from G 2 Div confirm indications of critical situation developing in area Silesia and eastern Germany.
		In Silesia, Polish administration and methods are causing a mass exodus westward of German inhabitants.
	www.codoh.com /incon/inconevac.sht (451 words)

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