Lower Silesia is located mostly in the basin of the middle Oder River with its historic capital in Wrocław.. The southern border of Lower Silesia is mapped by the mountain ridge of the Western and Central Sudetes, which since the High Middle Ages formed the border between Polish Silesia and the historic Bohemian region of the present-day Czech Republic. . The Bóbr and Kwisa …

The Province of Lower Silesia (German: Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Niederschläsing; Polish: Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with Upper Silesia as the Province of Silesia.The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (now …

Silesians (Silesian: Ślōnzŏki or Ślůnzoki; Silesian German: Schläsinger or Schläsier; German: Schlesier; Polish: Ślązacy; Czech: Slezané) is a geographical term for the inhabitants of Silesia, a historical region in Central Europe divided by the current national boundaries of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.Historically, the region of Silesia (Lower and Upper) has been ...

The Polish-speaking parts of Lower and Middle Silesia, commonly described until the late 19th century as the Polish side, were mostly Germanised in the 18th and 19th centuries, except for a few patches and a larger area along the northeastern frontier. East ...

Wrocław (Polish: [ˈvrɔt͡swaf] (); German: Breslau, pronounced [ˈbʁɛslaʊ̯] (); Silesian German: Brassel) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.. Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia.Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.The history of the city dates back over a thousand years; at various ...

It is currently split into a larger Polish and the smaller Czech Silesian part, which is located within the Czech regions of Moravia-Silesia and Olomouc.The Polish Upper Silesian territory covers most of the Opole Voivodeship, except for the Lower Silesian counties of Brzeg and Namysłów, and the western half of the Silesian Voivodeship (except for the Lesser Polish counties of …

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province, in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrzych and Jelenia Góra Voivodeships, following the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. It covers an area of 19,946 …

Jelenia Góra (pron. Yeh-lenia-Goorah; Polish: [jɛˈlɛɲa ˈɡura] (); German: Hirschberg im Riesengebirge; Exonym: Deer Mountain; Silesian: Jelyniŏ Gōra) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia.Jelenia Góra is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border …

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature at which it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point at which work hardening no longer occurs. The metal (known as the "workpiece") is transported to and from the forge using tongs, which …

Legnica (Polish: [lɛɡˈɲit͡sa] (); German: Liegnitz, Silesian: Lignica, Czech: Lehnice, Latin: Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda.Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship.It is currently the seat of the county …