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	Upper Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upper Silesia (Czech: Horní Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien; Latin: Silesia Superior; Polish: Górny Śląsk; Silesian: Górny Sloonsk) is the southeastern 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 Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Silesia (265 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).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Silesia (602 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast Duchy, which subsequently became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire and passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526.
		B br (Czech Bobr) is a river in the northern Czech Republic and southwestern Poland, a tributary of the Oder River, with a length of 272 kilometres (2 in Czech Republic, 270 in Poland, 10th longest Polish river) and the basin area of 5,876 sq.
		In 1335, Duke Henry VI of Wrocław and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of the king of Bohemia, John of Luxemburg.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Silesia (9968 words)

	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 (1426 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Third Silesian Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Upper Silesia (Polish: GÃ³rny ÅšlÄ…sk, German: Oberschlesien, Czech: HornÃ 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).
		Prussian Silesia, 1871, outlined in yellow; Silesia at the close of the Seven Years War in 1763, outlined in cyan (areas now in Czech Republic were Austrian-ruled at that time) Silesia (-Latin, Polish: ÅšlÄ…sk, German: Schlesien, Czech: Slezsko) is a historical region in central Europe.
		Agreements between the Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia and appeals issued by both sides, as well as the despatch of six battalions of Allied troops and the disbandment of the local guards, contributed markedly to the pacification of the district.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Third-Silesian-Uprising (2067 words)

	Silesians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		This part of Silesia constituted the Province of Silesia (later the Prussian provinces of Upper and Lower Silesia) until 1945.
		Millions of Silesia's ethnic German inhabitants were subsequently expelled, but those Silesians classified by the Polish authorities as "autochthons" or "ethnic Poles insufficiently aware of their Polishness" were allowed to remain, after being were sifted out from the ethnic Germans by a process of "national verification".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silesians (531 words)

	Silesia: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Silesia, with Moravia, was temporarily detached from the Bohemian crown and was ruled by Hungary.
		By the Treaty of Berlin (1742), Maria Theresa ceded all of Silesia except Teschen and present Czech Silesia to Prussia; this cession was ratified by the Treaty of Dresden (1745).
		Germany--Boundaries--Poland, Poland--Boundaries--Germany, Silesia, Upper (Poland And Czech Republic)--History--Partition, 1919-1922
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	Silesia - Wikimedia Commons
		Silesia is a region in Central Europe, north of Bohemia and Moravia, west of Galizia, south of Greater Poland, east of Saxony.
		Until 1945, Silesia used to be a province of the german state of Prussia.
		Silesia stretches along the Odra (Oder) river, its border with Bohemia is marked by the Giant Mountains (Karkonosze, Riesengebirge, Krkonoše) whose highest mountain (1602 m) is the Snow Mountain (Śnieżka, Schneekoppe, Sněžka), also the highest point in the Czech Republic.
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	math lessons - 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.
		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.
		A small part of Silesia surrounding the city of Görlitz remained part of the German Democratic Republic and is now part of the Federal State of Saxony in the Federal Republic of Germany.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Silesia (2010 words)

	Lower Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lower Silesia was formerly the name of a Prussian province.
		Silesia was split into Lower and Upper in 1172 during the period of Poland's fragmentation when the land was divided between sons of Ladislaus the Exile (Władysław Wygnaniec): Bolesław the Tall ruling over the Silesia with the capital in Wroclaw and Mieszko Plątonogi ruling over Upper with the capital in Opole.
		Most of Silesia became Prussian in 1742 after the First Silesian War and turned into the Silesian province into the districts of Lower Silesia (Liegnitz) Middle Silesia (Breslau) and Upper Silesia (Oppeln).
	www.freeglossary.com /Lower_Silesia (555 words)

	Schlesien
		Silesia was initially an Austrian and later a Prussian province, but used never the Austrian or Prussian colors.
		1815 · annexation of the from the Kingdom of Saxony ceded Upper Lausitz
		1938 · unification of the Provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia to the Province of Silesia, re-affiliation of the Hultshin Land
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	Silesia - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast province that became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the
		990 Silesia was incorporated into Poland by Mieszko I (although some historians are moving the date to 999 and rule of Boleslaus I, duke of the Polanie and later king of Poland).
		Since that time Silesia indirectly became a part of the Holy Roman Empire, as Bohemia was itself an autonomous part of the empire.
	www.gurupedia.com /s/si/silesia.htm (1766 words)

	Upper Silesia info here at en.52of100d.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Upper Silesia (Czech: HornÃ Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien; Latin: Silesia Superior; Polish: GÃ³rny ÅlÄsk; Silesian: GÃ³rny Sloonsk) is the southeastern gob of Silesia, a historical und geographical ward of Poland (Opole Voivodship und Silesian Voivodship) und of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region).
		The ward is situated in the Silesian highlands, halfway the upper Oder und upper Vistula rivers.
		Opole nowadays is a ultra gob of Opole Voivodship.
	en.52of100d.info /Upper_Silesia (470 words)

	Prussia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before 1919 it consisted of 13 provinces: Berlin, Brandenburg, East Prussia (separated after 1919 from the rest of Prussia by the Polish Corridor), Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (see Hesse), Hohenzollern (a Prussian enclave between Württemberg and Baden in SW Germany), Pomerania, Rhine Province, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, and Westphalia.
		His scheme for a German Union under Prussian leadership and excluding Austria was punctured in the Convention of Olomouc (1850), and Prussia returned to the restored German Confederation.
		The Prussian constitution was liberalized after Prussia became a republic in 1918, and the Junkers lost many of their estates through the cession of Prussian territory to Poland.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-prussia.html (2054 words)

	Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany)
		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.
		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).
		Like Upper Silesia 1920-1935, but with coat of arms, consisting of a blue field with a yellow eagle above a scythe and crossed hammers, at the center.
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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.
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		When (initially class-based) provincial parliaments were established in the Prussian provinces in 1823, two of them were established in Pomerania: one communal parliament for the governmental districts of Stettin and Koeslin and a separate communal parliament for the governmental district of Stralsund, New Hither Pomerania (until 1881).
		At the head of the province stood the representative of the Crown, the Provincial President, who resided in the palace in Stettin and until 1882 also functioned as the governmental president for the district of Stettin.
		As a result of Prussian administrative reforms in 1932, the small government district of Stralsund was dissolved and included in the Stettin district.
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		The reason for the paranormal effects of discussing Silesia is not known; even the West Bank is not capable of matching its effects.
		It was chiefly its wealth that tempted Frederick II the Great of Prussia to wrest Silesia from the Habsburg heiress Maria Teresa in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48).
		The Ostflucht (flight from the East) was a movement by residents of the eastern German regions of East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia and Province of Posen beginning around 1850, to the more industrialized Rhine and Ruhr provinces.
	www.lycos.com /info/silesia--west-germany.html (399 words)

	Upper Silesia info here at en.23of100e.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Upper Silesia, southern Poland, people living in the vicinity of the birds' nesting sites are frequently bitten by A. reflexus.
		Upper Silesia (Czech: HornÃ Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien; Latin: Silesia Superior; Polish: GÃ³rny ÅlÄsk; Silesian: GÃ³rny Sloonsk) is the southeastern unit of Silesia, a historical & geographical environs of Poland (Opole Voivodship & Silesian Voivodship) & of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region).
		The environs is situated in the Silesian highlands, betwixt the upper Oder & upper Vistula rivers.
	en.23of100e.info /Upper_Silesia (444 words)

	Upper silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/upper_silesia (168 words)

	Warta oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		- Meuse - principal river of the southern provinces of the Netherlands and eastern Belgium.
		Upper Silesia was formerly a province of Poland, then Czech, Austrian,Prussia, later the Autonomous Silesian Voivodship in Poland.
		In 1815 it returned to Prussian rule as part of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznan and capital of one of its districts, Bromberg district.
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	Lower Silesian Voivodship
		Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny ЕљlД…sk, Latin: Silesia Inferior, German: Niederschlesien) is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia in Poland, located along the middle Odra River and organized into Lower Silesian Voivodship, (Polish: wojewГіdztwo dolnoЕ›lД…skie) with capital WrocЕ‚aw.
		In 1526 Silesia fell to Austrian rule under the Habsburg dynasty.
		In 1945 after World War II most of Lower Silesia was assigned to Poland by the Allies and reorganized into WrocЕ‚aw Voivodship (1945-1975).
	www.governpub.com /Capitals-L/Lower_Silesian_Voivodship.php (482 words)

	Lower silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/lower_silesia (168 words)

	Upper Silesia
		Even after the conclusion of the Versailles Peace Treaty the Polish minority in Upper Silesia protested against the political and territorial dominance of the...
		The Polish portion comprises most of the former Prussian provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, both of which were transferred to Polish administration at the Potsdam Conference of 1945; the...
		In the western and central regions practically only German was spoken, while in the eastern part of Silesia (Upper Silesia) the Polish language was predominant.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Upper_Silesia (289 words)

	Silesia Biography,info
		It has been suggested that Silesia (1911 EB) be merged into this article or section.
		In the second half of the 13th century, various knightly orders settled in Silesia — the Knights of the Red Star were the first, soon followed by the Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights.
		By war's end, the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost all of Silesia, while some parts of Silesia in the extreme southeast, like the Duchy of Cieszyn and Duchy of Opava, remained possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Silesia (3395 words)

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