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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silesia
		Prussian Silesia, the largest province of Prussia, has an area of 15,557 square miles, and is traversed in its entire length by the River Oder.
		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.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13790b.htm (1418 words)

	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.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/breslau.html (6273 words)

	The Provinces of Prussia quiz -- free game
		This province was a vassal of Poland from 1466.
		All of this province except for the extreme south-east was ceded to Prussia from Austria in 1742.
		It was reorganized by the Congress of Vienna and became a province of Prussia in 1816.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=192904 (447 words)

	Silesia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		According to Tacitus, in the 1st century Silesia was inhabited by a multi-ethnic league dominated by the Lugii/Lygii.
		Czech Silesia is inhabited by the Czechs, Moravians and Poles.
	silesia.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1990 words)

	Past and Present Regions of Poland
		Originally the province was a Slavic settlement, and Opole, the capital of the region, was the seat of the dukes of Opole of the Piast dynasty (1163-1532).
		Opole province is the smallest province in Poland.
		A province of inter-war (1919-1939) Germany separated from the contiguous German provinces by the 70 mile-wide Polish province of Pomorze.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/regions.html (4149 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lower Silesia (Niederschlesien in German) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945.
		Between 1938 and 1941 it was united with Upper Silesia as the Province of Silesia.
		Silesia had been ceded by the Austrian Monarchy to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742.
	www.goupstate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lower_Silesia_(Prussian_province) (113 words)

	Prussia 1911
		Another sign that the Prussian state was becoming gradually involved in the affairs of western Europe was the fact that as a second wife the Great Elector married a Guelph, to which family the wives both of his son and grandson belonged.
		In like manner in his internal administration he deliberately neglected his western provinces, although it was just this part of his kingdom that lay in the centre of the rising economic life of Europe, and contained, along with Silesia, the mineral treasures that in the future were to make the country and its population rich.
		The restlessness was increased by economic distress, especially among the weavers of Silesia, by contradictory ordinances issued by the Government, and by the discovery of a national Polish conspiracy in the province of Posen.
	polishpoland.com /prussia_1911.htm (14678 words)

	Lower Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polish Lower Silesia, the bulk of the historical region, is administratively part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in western Poland, while a small region west of the Lusatian Neisse added to Silesia in 1815 is divided between Görlitz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in eastern Germany.
		Silesia was split into Lower and Upper parts in 1172 during the period of Poland's feudal fragmentation, when the land was divided between two sons of High Duke Władysław II: Bolesław the Tall ruling over Lower Silesia with his capital in Wrocław and Mieszko Plątonogi ruling over Upper Silesia with his capital in Opole.
		Most of Silesia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 after the First Silesian War and was turned into the Province of Silesia, divided into the districts of Lower Silesia (Liegnitz), Middle Silesia (Breslau), and Upper Silesia (Oppeln).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Silesia (708 words)

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		The eastern part of Prussian Silesia (called East Upper Silesia) came to the new re-founded state of Poland after WWI in consequence of the contract of Versailles.
		After WWII the whole Prussian Silesia came to Poland as it was decided at the conference of Potsdam in August 1945.
		The ethnic cleansing and expulsion of the Germans was a consequence of the conference of Potsdam in 1945.
	members.aol.com /BeallComp/history.htm (1610 words)

	How To Germany - Genealogy
		Genealogical research once was mainly the province of snobbish bluebloods seeking to connect their families to the nobility or the Mayflower.
		Prussian province of Westfalen, northern portion of Prussian Rheinprovinz, Principality of Lippe-Detmold.
		Former Duchy of Anhalt, Prussian province of Sachsen.
	www.howtogermany.com /pages/genealogy.html (1648 words)

	Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Landesfarben were granted by the Prussian state ministry to the province on the 9th September 1923 and lasted until 1940, although all the flags of the Länder and provinces were already abolished in 1935.
		Like Lower Silesia 1920-1935, but with coat of arms, consisting of a silver field with a fl Silesian eagle (with cross and crescent pattern on breast), at the center.
		After the [Second World] War, the association in West Germany of people coming from the former province, used the former banner of the Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen with the coat of arms of this province in the center of the first quartering of the flag (that is one-third from the top).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-pr19-.html (757 words)

	Regional Maps of Germany
		Province of Silesia (adr 3), published by A. Scobel, Leipzig in 1903; cartography by Velhagen and Klasing.
		Portions of the neighboring states of Bohemia, Silesia, and Prussian Saxony are shown in more detail than on the maps of those territories from this same atlas.
		Province of Saxony (Prussia) and the Duchy of Anhalt (adr 6), published by A. Scobel, Leipzig in 1903; cartography by Velhagen and Klasing.
	www.generationspress.com /catalogs/germany-regional.html (1590 words)

	Political & administrative status
		The division of the Province into administrative regions, though important in the structure of the Prussian administration is not pertinent to genealogical research.
		The Polish part of the former Province became the new voivodship of Poznan (although the North-Eastern districts of Bydgoszcz, Mogilno, Strzelno, Inowroclaw, Wyrzysk, Szubin and Znin were later incorporated into the voivodship of Polish Pomerania with the capital seat in Torun/Thorn).
		The German part was included into a new Prussian province named Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen (Borderland of Posen and West Prussia) with the capital in Pila/Schneidemühl.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/distr.htm (510 words)

	Lower Silesian Voivodship
		The noun is Dolny Śląsk, which is Polish for "Lower Silesia".
		It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wroclaw, Legnica, Walbrzych and Jelenia Gora voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998.
		History: Silesia (Prussian Province) from 1870 to 1945.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/lo/lower_silesian_voivodship.html (158 words)

	Silesian Workshops of Documentary Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The XIX century is also a time of great social change.The farmers, freed from serfdom in 1807, leave their villages and start to move into settlements surrounding factories and mines, while their former feudal lords invest their capital in industry, giving rise to even larger fortunes.
		By 1763 German was taught in all schools across Upper Silesia, and only a year later all teachers that did not speak the language were dismissed.
		Finally in 1871 the polish language was removed from schools throughout the province.
	www.silesiadocument.com /slask_e_2.php (508 words)

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		As a result of the First World War, the Prussian province Silesia suddenly found itself in an exposed border situation, "surrounded" from the north, the east and the south by the foreign or even hostile states of Poland and Czechoslovakia.
		Since the seat of the governement of the Prussian Province was Oppeln (Opole) and the Bishop resided in Breslau (Wroclaw) and Neisse (Nysa), in the German industrial era of Upper Silesia no buildings comparable in splendor to the Silesian Parliament or the Cathedral arose.
		In 1931 in Oppeln (Opole), there was erected a new seat for the government of the Prussian province Upper Silesia, and this occurred according to a modern architectural scheme presented by the governmental architect Lehmann.
	www.artmargins.com /content/feature/stortkuhl.html (4333 words)

	Schlesien
		Silesia was initially an Austrian and later a Prussian province, but used never the Austrian or Prussian colors.
		The colors White and Yellow could be the colors of the house of Piaste, the ancient sovereigns of the Duchy of Silesia, which existed until 1327.
		1938 · unification of the Provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia to the Province of Silesia, re-affiliation of the Hultshin Land
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /fdtschle.htm (487 words)

	The Province of Posen (Poznan)
		Together with the western districts of the former West Prussia, those areas were included in a new province called Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen which existed until 1938 (then dissolved into the neighboring Prussian provinces).
		The parts of historical Silesia which were incorporated into the Poznan voivodship after 1920 are shown in cyan.
		Political and administrative status of the territory of the Province (incl.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/pos.htm (631 words)

	Lowenberg - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LOWENBERG, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Bober, 39 m.
		It is one of the oldest towns in Silesia; its town hall dates from the 16th century, and it has a Roman Catholic church built in the 13th century and restored in 1862.
		The town has sandstone and gypsum quarries, breweries and woollen mills, and cultivates fruit and vegetables.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lowenberg (135 words)

	General von Steuben
		A Prussian force, commanded by Hereditary Prince Leopold I (“Old Dessauer”), soundly defeated the Saxons at the battle of Kesseldorf, on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Dresden, on December 15th.
		Steuben was enaged in the battle of Liegnitz (in Silesia) on August 15, 1760, where Frederick’s troops, exhausted and outnumbered, defeated a poorly led Austrian army and was thus able to prevent the union of the Russian and Austrian armies.
		The professional Prussian trooper was supposedly appalled and nearly discouraged by the sight of naked troops bearing rusty muskets.
	www.bergencountyhistory.org /Pages/gnsteuben.html (8973 words)

	Fredrick (Friedrich) William (Wilhelm) KUSS
		Rogasen on the 1800's Prussian Map became Rogazno on the 1998 map of Poland in Province Pozan.
		The Prussian province of Posen (Poznan) was established in 1815 and comprised the major part of the Polish region called
		Prussian Province of Poznan before WWI but belonged then to the Kingdom of Poland ruled by the Russians.
	www.uslink.net /~insight/PS01/PS01_027.HTM (4242 words)

	Upper Silesia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		'''Upper Silesia''' (Polish Górny &346;l&261;sk, 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).
		The region is situated in the Silesian highlands, between the Upper Oder and Upper Vistula rivers.
		Upper Silesia was formerly a province of Prussia, later the Autonomous Silesian Voivodship.
	upper-silesia.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (155 words)

	Silesia, Rustical Alliance (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The "rustical alliance" in Silesia was credited with being the most important association of the rural population in the German revolution of 1848/49.
		At a congress on September 22 and 23 in Breslau, with almost all districts of the province being represented, the Silesian "Central Rustical Alliance" was formally constituted with the adoption of the statute and the election of a central committee.
		During the November crisis the "rustical alliance" supported the Prussian parliament in its resistance to the preparation for and carrying-out of the counter-revolution in Prussia by its participation in the tax refusal campaign and the call for the arming of the people.
	cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~Chastain/rz/silecia.htm (625 words)

	Saxony (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The inhabitants of the part of Saxony which belonged to Lower Silesia in the past can fly the flag of this former province.
		The Constitution of Saxony [says that] the inhabitants of the part of Saxony which belonged to Lower Silesia in the past can fly the flag of this former province (white on yellow), and can use the former arms of Lower Silesia.
		Silesia [Schlesien] (Silesian German exiles from South-West Poland) Horizontal white-yellow".
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-sn.html (970 words)

	1./Infanterieregiment „von Winterfeldt“ (2.Oberschlesisches) Nr.23
		) in the Prussian province of Upper Silesia.
		The Prussian Army was very proud of its rich heritage of tradition and service, having been not only an important part of the state, but also of society in the Kaiserzeit and before.
		Since the days of the campaigns of Frederick the Great, the Prussian army had been known world wide, and its uniforms, drill, ideas, and style were copied on a global scale.
	www.reenactor.net /units/ir23/1c-ir23home.html (647 words)

	Province of Lower Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1740: Silesia 1773: East Prussia
		1822: Rhine Province 1829: Prussia ; 1850: Hohenzollern 1867: Hanover
		Upper Silesia 1920: Berlin 1922: Posen-West Prussia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Silesia_(Prussian_province) (178 words)

	German Genealogy: Silesia
		In 1919 Silesia has been divided into two provinces: Lower Silesia (Niederschlesien) with the districts (Regierungsbezirke) Breslau and Liegnitz and Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) beeing the former province Oppeln.
		Some of the church records from the former Prussian provinces on the eastern side of the Oder-Neisse-border (East Prussia, West Prussia, eastern Pommerian, Posen, Silesia, and the eastern portion of the Brandenburg) can be found at the Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin, Jebensstrasse 3, D-10623 Berlin.
		Since Silesia enjoyed a special status in the Prussian monarchy, all state records remained in the province with no records transfered to the Berlin archives.
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/SCI/sil-e.html (692 words)

	FAQ Schlesien / Silesia in Prussia
		In 1919 the province was divided into two provinces: Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia) being the districts of Breslau and Liegnitz and Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) being the Oppeln district.
		In 1945 the German population suffered the same ethnic cleansing as the rest of Silesia and East Germany.
		A14: Neuschlesien (New Silesia) was a province annexed from the third partition of Poland (1795-1807).
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faq.schl.html (2366 words)

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