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 Teschen Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Teschen (Czech: Těšín, Polish: Cieszyn) is a former principality and its capital.
It shared history of Silesia and after the feudal division of Poland in 1138 was ruled by Piast dukes from Silesian line.
It became a direct apanage of the Bohemian crown in 1625 at the extinction of the male line of its dukes, and since 1766 it bore the name of Saxe-Teschen, owing to the fact that Prince Albert of Saxony, who married a daughter of Maria Theresa, received it as part of his wife's dowry.
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 Cieszyn - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cieszyn 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.
It is also the site of the Olza Cieszyn sweets factory (where the famous Prince Polo wafers are being made) and a brewery.
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 Cieszyn info here at en.along-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cieszyn (Czech: Těšín, German: Teschen) is a city in southern Poland with 37,300 inhabitants (1995), situated in the Silesian Voivodeship 'n seat of powiat of Cieszyn (since 1999), one shot in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975-1998).
Cieszyn was the capital of the Duchy of Cieszyn 'n shared its history over the ages.
Following the Czech invasion of Cieszyn Silesia in January 1919, the urban was divided in 1920 by the Conference of Ambassadors, a chassis formed by the Versailles Treaty, leaving a sizeable Polish minority on the Czechoslovak side.
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 CIESZYN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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 Czech Republic - HISTORY
Its importance to Czechoslovak history is that it united in a single state the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks.
But whatever its longrange implications for Czech history, it is important to remember that the Bohemian Kingdom was a medieval state in which ethnic or national questions were far overshadowed by dynastic politics.
Tesin, an industrial area also claimed by Poland, was divided between Czechoslovakia (Cesky Tesin) and Poland (Cieszyn).
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 Tesin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Until 1918 it was called Saska Kępa (local dialect: Sasko Kympa, German: Sachsenberg) and was a suburb of the town of Cieszyn (German: Teschen) in the Duchy of Cieszyn, within Cieszyn Silesia in Austria-Hungary.
The area was divided along the previous 1920 border again in 1945, and the Communist Government of Poland returned the disputed area to Czechoslovakia.
Before the war there was a sizeable Jewish minority in the town, about 1500 in Cieszyn and 1300 in Český Těšín [1].
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 League of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cieszyn (German Teschen, Czech Těšín) is a region between Poland and today's Czech Republic, important for its coal mines.
Czechoslovakian troops fought moved to Cieszyn in 1919 to take over control of the region while Poland was defending itself from invasion of Bolshevik Russia.
Though both countries shared centuries of common history in the Polish-Lithuanian Union and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, rising Lithuanian nationalism prevented the recreation of the former federated state.
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 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.
One of the elements of the rich history of the towns, which at one time were undivided, is the tramline.
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.
www.muzeum-cieszyn.ox.pl /tramwaje/indexen.html   (189 words)

  
 Cieszyn.pl - serwis informacyjny
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.
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 Zaolzie - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Zaolzie (Czech Záolší (Zaolží), Slezsko zaolšanské, Polish Zaolzie, Śląsk zaolziański meaning Trans-Olza river) was the area disputed between Poland and Czechoslovakia West of Cieszyn with approximately 906 km² and 258,000 inhabitants.
In October 1918, following the end of First World War and the fall of Austro-Hungary, the area was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia by two local self-government councils (Czech Narodni Vybor pro Slezsko and Polish Rada Narodowa).
You can find it there under the keyword Zaolzie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaolzie)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zaolzieandaction=history).
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 Czech and Slovak History: An Annotated Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Hungary at the Peace Conference: The Diplomatic History of the Treaty of Trianon.
Bruegel, Johann W. "The Germans in Pre-war Czechoslovakia." In A History of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948, 1973 [Chapter 4, Mamatey and Luza]: 167-87.
The Shaping of the Czechoslovak State: Diplomatic History of the Boundaries of Czechoslovakia, 1914-1920.
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 AllRefer.com - Teschen, Czech Republic & Slovakia (Czech And Slovak Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cieszyn, former principality (c.850 sq mi/2,200 sq km), now divided between the Czech Republic and Poland.
A part of Silesia, the principality was under Bohemia from 1292 to 1625, when it came under Hapsburg rule.
The town of Teschen also was divided into a Polish section, Cieszyn, and a Czech section, CeskY TesIn.
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 JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1... - Online Information article about JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1... (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
History) and it was only with the aid of the See also:
Turks that king John was able to exhaust his opponent and compel him to come to terms.
Vienna, 1895) ; Ignacz Acsady, History of the Hungarian Realm, vol.
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This noble interest was used by Czech scholars to research their people's history, while the Enlightenment spurred development of the Czech language, and literature.
The founder of Czech positivist historiography, Jaroslav Goll (1846-1929) was right in commenting that Palacky’s History of the Czech Nation was as much a mirror of the author and his time as of the Czech past.
The most recent history of the Czechs is a book stressing cultural history, written by Canadian Sociologist, Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia.
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 lecture1&2spring2000ver2
World War I broke out in August 1914 in the Balkans, after the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia, by a young Serb fanatic, Gavrilo Princip, in the Bosnian capital of SARAJEVO on June 28, 1914.
We should note that by 1572, most Polish nobles were Calvinists, but this did not last long for the Jesuits had the best schools and so the nobles soon returned to the R.C. faith which became a hallmark of Polishness.
A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, New York, Oxford, 1992, 2nd edition 2001.
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 Czech Republic
The ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks were first noted in recorded history in the fifth century, when the ancient Czech tribes settled in Bohemia and Moravia and when Slovak tribes settled in what was to become Slovakia.
The folk culture of the Czechs and Slovaks remained close to that of their fellow Slavs in the East, but their intellectual and political development was profoundly influenced by western Europe.
Early in its history, the Bohemian Kingdom became part of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Czech people were subjected to strong German and Roman Catholic influence (see
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 Index of /wiki/en/hi/
History of anatomy in the 17th and 18th centuries
History of the west coast of North America
History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina
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 League of Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cieszyn (German Teschen, Czech Tesin) is a small town between Poland and Czechoslovakia, important for its coal mines.
The city was divided into Polish Cieszyn and Czech Cesky Tesin.
After World War I, Poland and Lithuania both regained the independence that they had lost during the partitions of Poland in 1795.
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 Bibliography, Pt II: 1914-1939
Boguslaw Kozusznik (1901-1998), was a Polish native of Teschen (Tesin, Cieszyn) Silesia.
Diplomatic History of the Boundaries of Czecho-slovakia, 1914-1920, Leiden, 1962.
Sakmyster is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.
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Czechoslovakian troops moved to Cieszyn in 1919 to take over control of the region while Poland was defending itself from invasion of Bolshevik Russia.
Walters, F.P. "A History of the League of Nations".
History (1919-1946) from the United Nations Office at Geneva
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 Freefire Zone Forums - The Last Gasp: Bzura River, 1939
As early as 1936 Hitler had ordered plans for an invasion of Poland, and as early as April 1939 he was setting dates for that invasion, after he renounced the 1935 Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact.
Such was the level of Polish-Czech animosity in the interbellum years that Beck felt confident in seizing Cieszyn and two of the other Carpathian passes from the dying Czechoslovakia in 1938.
During the war the Germans liquidated most of Cieszyn's Polish population, but after the war the town was finally divided along the traditional ethnic boundaries (the ACC of course deported the town's German population), roughly similarly to the agreement the town's Polish and Czech elders drew up in 1918.
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 Colin Seymour's Tram Pages - World Cz - The Czech Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tramways were opened here in 1909, same as in Cesky Tesin to connect city with railway station.
Few new lines is already planned now, in 2001 there ought to be new line to Barrandow, in 2002 into Komorany (with new depot) and in 2004 new bridge accross the river Vltava.
History of Czech tramways cannot be completed without Tramway manufacturers.
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On the German-Czech problem in history and in interwar Czechoslovakia, see: Elizabeth Wiskemann, Czechs and Germans.
The Czechoslovak State shall be a republic, and its constitution a democratic one.
The Czech point of view is to be found in: Dagmar Perman, The Shaping of the Czechoslovak State: Diplomatic History of the Boundaries of Czechoslovakia, 1914-1920, Leiden, 1962, ch.
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 AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
Operated as a model camp, the inmates were issued special stamps for the free franking of parcels; the stamps were forwarded to internee family and / or friends for free-franking use on parcels; parcels not franked with these stamps were not delivered.
Czechoslovakia and Poland disputed the territory, known as Eastern Silesia (q.v.), with portions being occupied in 1919 by the Czechs.
After the 1920 division, the capital city of Teschen, divided by the Olsa River, was renamed, with the Czech city being Cesky Tesín, and the Polish city being Cieszyn; see Celistvosti - SO 1920.
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 nij 200
Four years later, in the summer of 1995, I had to remind then-Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus of Havel's words after Klaus wrote an article stating that Czech republic was skeptical towards the so-called Visegrad group and the motives behind it from the very beginning.
The history of the three-country group officially began on February 15, 1991 in Visegrad, a town in northern Hungary.
Presidents Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa of Czechoslovakia and Poland as well as Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antal met there to sign a declaration about cooperation of their three countries.
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 Chudek / Chudek Background
Here is a modern map (385-Kb) of the Cesky Tesin, Hradek, Jablunkov region in the eastern area of the Czech Republic, along the west border of Poland.
Using the Family History Library at the local Chapter of the LDS Mormon Church.
She told me her parents were married the 16th of June in 1913 and there were 13 children in her family.
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 Poland Asks for Apology Over Pact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As far as Cieszyn (or - as you prefer Teschen, wich is probably a German name, Czechs would say Tesin) is concerned - see dfwgator's #8.
It was one of the most cowardly, disgraceful capitulations in history and the Poles were all too happy to lick Nazi boots if it meant a piece of Czechoslovakia for them.
You've been taught a sanitized version of your history which makes little or no mention of your own complicity in the diaster which befell your country.
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