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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)

	Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silesia (2086 words)

	Silesia
		Eastern Silesia Eastern Silesia was formerly the Poland.
		Lower Silesia Lower Silesia (Polish Dolny Śląsk, German Niederschlesien) is the north-western part of the hist...
		Upper Silesia plebiscite Upper Silesia plebiscite was the form of self-determination for Upper Silesia on demand of one...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/silesia.html (193 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silesia
		In the earliest period Silesia was inhabited by Germans, the tribes being the Lygii and the Silingii.
		In 999 Silesia was conquered by the Poles.
		During the decade of the forties the sect of "German Catholics" developed from Silesia as the starting-point; this sect was founded at Laurahutte in Upper Silesia by the ex-chaplain, John Ronge.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13790b.htm (1426 words)

	Silesia
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast 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.
		Silesia was inhabited by various peoples belonging to changing archeological cultures in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
		Czech Silesia is inhabited by the Czechs, Moravians and Poles.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/silesia (1865 words)

	Province of Posen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia (1846-1918).
		However, shortly after the outbreak of the November Uprising Prussia broke the Vienna peace congress arrangements, ignored the autonomy and in 1846 the province was renamed to Province of Posen.
		With the unification of Germany, the province of Posen became part of the German Empire (1871-1918) and the city of Posen was officially named an imperial residence city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinz_Posen (1254 words)

	Encyclopedia: Province of Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From that time Silesia indirectly became a part of the Holy Roman Empire, as Bohemia was itself an autonomous part of the empire.
		In 1945 all of Silesia was occupied by Soviet troops; by then a large proportion of the German population had fled Silesia, but many returned after the German capitulation.
		The industry of Silesia was after rebuilt after the war, and the region was populated by Poles from other areas (mostly by Poles who were themselves expelled from lands annexed by the Soviet Union).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Province-of-Silesia (2020 words)

	Silesia Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		'''Silesia''' (Polish languagePolish ''Śląsk'', German languageGerman ''Schlesien'', Czech languageCzech ''Slezsko'') is a Historical regions of Central Europehistorical region in central Europe.
		According to Gaius Cornelius TacitusTacitus, in the 1st century Silesia was inhabited by a multi-ethnic league dominated by the LugiiLugii/Lygii.
		About 990 Silesia was incorporated into Poland by Mieszko I of PolandMieszko I (although some historians are moving the date to 999 and the rule of Boleslaus I of PolandBoleslaus I, duke of the Polanie and later king of Poland).
	www.echostatic.com /index.php?title=Silesia (2018 words)

	Lower Silesia (Prussian province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lower Silesia (German Niederschlesien) was a province of Prussia which together with Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) formed most of the historical region Silesia until the end of World War II.
		Silesia was ceded by Austria to Prussia in 1742, and in 1919 divided into Upper and Lower Silesia.
		Now Lower Silesia lies mainly in Poland (see Lower Silesian Voivodship) and with parts in the German state of Saxony; the Görlitz, Rothenburg and Hoyerswerda areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Silesia_(Prussian_province) (138 words)

	.:: Województwo Dolnośląskie - Lower Silesia ::.
		Despite that, the climate of Lower Silesia is mild, and the lowlands of the Province are the warmest area of Poland.
		The Lower Silesia Province is divided into 30 counties (powiat), including four municipal counties, and 169 communes (36 municipal communes, 54 communes of mixed municipal and rural character and 79 rural communes).
		The Lower Silesia Province is among Poland’s leading regions in terms of the number of companies with foreign capital and the amount of the foreign capital invested.
	www.umwd.pl /index.php?strona=informacja_en (3977 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Breslau
		The new bishop devoted himself to repairing the damage inflicted on the Church in Silesia by the despotic procedure of the Emperor Wenzel.
		The Diocese of Breslau includes the whole Prussian Province of Silesia with the exception of a part of the districts of Ratibor and Leobschütz, which belong to the Archdiocese of Olmütz, and the Countship (Grafschaft) of Glatz, also in Prussian Silesia, which is subject to the Archbishop of Prague.
		There was also a strong desire in Silesia for a university embracing all faculties, and King Frederick William III gave his consent, 3 August, 1811, to a "plan for uniting the University of Frankfort with the University of Breslau".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02761a.htm (6267 words)

	Silesia - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The small portion in the Czech Republic is joined with northern part of Moravia to form the Moravian-Silesian Region of that country, while the Görlitz area now is a part of the German state of Saxony.
		The last independent Piast duchies in Silesia ceased to exist in 1368, however the Silesian branch of the Piast dynasty went extinct only in 1675.
		In October 1938 Cieszyn Silesia (the disputed area West of Olza river, so called Zaolzie - 906km2 258,000 inhabitants) was retaken by Poland from Czechoslovakia, in accord with the Munich Agreement.
	www.free-definition.com /Silesia.html (1894 words)

	BRESLAU - LoveToKnow Article on BRESLAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The business streets of the city converge upon the Ring, the market square, in which is the town-hall, a fine Gothic building, begun in the middle of the 14th and completed in the 16th century.
		Within is the FUrstensaal, in which the diets of Silesia were formerly held, while beneath is the famous Schweidnitzer Keller, used continuously since 1355 as a beer and wine house.
		Its situation, close to the extensive coal and iron fields of Upper Silesia, in proximity to the Austrian and Russian frontiers, at the centre of a network of railways directly communicating both with these countries and with the chief towns of northern and central Germany, and on.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRESLAU.htm (1344 words)

	Silesia -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Silesia was originally a Polish province that became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335, passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526, was taken by Prussia in 1742, and was returned to Poland in 1945.
		Silesia consists largely of the basin of the upper and middle Oder River, which flows from southeast to northwest.
		Silesia consists largely of the basin of the upper and middle Oder River, which flows from southeast...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9067752 (603 words)

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		Silesia was then independent, and following the policy of the Royal and Masovian branches, encouraged German settlement of their extensive lands.
		By the end of the 14th century, Silesia consisted of fourteen separate principalities, and the planned emigration was producing the desired prosperity; swamplands were reclaimed, the weaving industry developed, and Breslau, re-established in 1250 as German city, became a trading center between East and West.
		Up to 1500, Silesia was a dependency of Bohemia, and as such eventually came under the control of the house of Hapsburg in 1526, who were rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
	www.intricatearticles.com /personal/hilliker2.html (1040 words)

	Province of Silesia Definition / Province of Silesia Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Polish portion of Silesia, which forms the bulk of the region, is now divided into the voivodshipsA Voivodship (Romanian: Voievodat, Polish: Województwo, Serbian: Vojvodstvo or Vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod.
		The latter two are sometimes named Upper SilesiaUpper Silesia (Polish Górny Śląsk, German Oberschlesien, Czech Horní Slezsko) is the south-eastern part of Silesia, a historical and geographical region of Poland (Opole Voivodship and Silesian Voivodship) and of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region).
		Silesia lies directly adjacent to Saxony, Little Poland, Greater PolandGreater Poland (also Great Poland; Polish: Wielkopolska, German: Grosspolen, Latin: Polonia Maior) is one of the historical regions of Poland.
	www.elresearch.com /Province_of_Silesia (474 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Wladyslaw II the Exile of Cracow
		He controlled the high-duke province of Kraków and Gniezno and also his hereditary province of Silesia.
		In 1163 the province of Silesia was granted to his sons by the Polish duke Boleslaus Kedzierzawy.
		Subsequenly Silesia was divided among his descendants and successors (going up to 17 duchies), until they died out in 1675.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/4238.htm (161 words)

	Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) Province, Poland
		The region of Lower Silesia (Dolny Slasky) covers an area of around 20,000 sq km and is populated by approximately 3 million people.
		It is bordered by Lubuskie and Wiekopolskie to the north, the Opole province to the east, Germany to the west and the Czech republic to the south.
		Lower Silesia is also home to lots of geological curiosities such as caves; rocky labyrinths; and several long-extinct volcanoes.
	polandpoland.com /dolnoslaskie.html (295 words)

	Province of Posen
		The province was renamed in 1846 to Province of Posen.
		The part remaining in Germany formed Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen with Schneidemühl as capital, until 1938, when it was divided between Silesia, Pomerania and Brandenburg.
		Due to the large number of resident Germans (first as settlers and then as occupiers) and the presence of powerful, warring nations on all sides and the internal strife between three major religious faiths, the area was often a battleground of ethnic conflict.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/province_of_posen (1226 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Silesia was the first region in which the idea of emigration emerged.
		The book is organized by date of emigration, then by province, district and village emigrated from and then family names are listed along with first names and ages.
		Her family stayed in Silesia longer than some and her descriptions of occupied Glatz and surrounding villages were very interesting.
	members.aol.com /BeallComp/biblio.htm (522 words)

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		A study of the map will show that Galicia is neither the Galician province of Spain, nor ancient Galatia in Asia Minor, but the most northern province of Austria, stretching, with its neighbor, the Bukowina, around the northeastern edge of the Kingdom of Hungary, with Russia on the north.
		Of the three chief nationalities of the province, Poles, Ruthenians, and Jews, the Poles and the Ruthenians are about equal in numbers, and the Jews a scant ten per cent of the whole population, but a mighty factor, after all, in the commercial world of Galicia.
		The Poles occupy the western end of this queer shaped, jagged province, the Ruthenians the eastern end; and though there is some overlapping territorially, there is, to put it mildly, no love lost between the races.
	www.voicenet.com /~pmargush/galicia.htm (638 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)

	Warsaw Voice - Speaking Together
		Together with the mayor and province chairman we are considering creating a climate favorable for investors by the city and province local government.
		Although constructing a beltway lies in the hands of the province chairman, both the mayor and myself are hoping to support the initiative.
		Another important topic for both the province and Wrocław local governments as well as the province governor is the extension of Wrocław's airport.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/2976 (1605 words)

	LAUBAN - LoveToKnow Article on LAUBAN
		, a town of Germany in the Prussian province of Silesia, is situated in a picturesque valley, at the junction of the lines of railway from Gorlitz and Sorau, 16 m.
		Lauban has a Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a town hall, dating from 1541, a conventual house of the order of St Magdalene, dating from the I4th century, a municipal, library and museum, two hospitals, an orphanage and several schools.
		LAUBE, HEINRICH (1806-1884), German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Sprottau in Silesia on the i8th of September 1806.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAUBAN.htm (875 words)

	Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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).
		Small fragments of Middle Silesia (marked in cyan) were also incorporated into Poland and a little area in the south (marked in magenta) - into Czechoslovakia.
		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.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/sil.htm (290 words)

	Re: Breslau, Silesia, Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mark, Breslau was the capital of what was until 1945 the Prussian province of Silesia.
		SILESIA (in German: SCHLESIEN) was until the 1740s a province of AUSTRIA.
		Silesia's capital, Breslau, which in 1939 had about 630,000 people, is now known by the Polish name WROCLAW.
	genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?germany::43144.html (427 words)

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