The Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was then divided into the provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia. Meanwhile, Austrian Silesia , the small portion of Silesia retained by Austria after the Silesian Wars , was mostly awarded to the new Czechoslovakia (becoming known as Czech Silesia and Zaolzie ), although most of Cieszyn and ...

Silesia, Polish Śląsk, Czech Slezsko, German Schlesien, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland. Silesia was originally a Polish province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335, passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526, and was taken by Prussia in 1742. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Silesia was ...

The Province of Silesia (German: Provinz Schlesien; Polish: Prowincja Śląska; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1740 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871.

The Province of Upper Silesia (German: Provinz Oberschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Oberschläsing; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Gōrny Ślōnsk; Polish: Prowincja Górny Śląsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. It comprised much of the region of Upper Silesia and was eventually d

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Province of Silesia: 37,013 km²; 4,846,333 inhabitants (May 1939) Term after 1945. The use of the landscape name Silesia or Lower Silesia for the areas west of the Lusatian Neisse was not officially desired in the GDR until 1989/1990 and was only used in the name of the Evangelical Church of Silesia until 1968 . After that, the GDR leadership prohibited the regional church from …

The main article for this category is Province of Silesia. The Kingdom of Prussia acquired most of Silesia during the 18th century Silesian Wars; the territory existed as a formal province from 1815-1918 and 1938-1941.

08/06/2004 · SILESIA (in German: SCHLESIEN) was until the 1740s a province of AUSTRIA. Following Austria's defeat by Prussia in the Silesian Wars, Silesia became a province of PRUSSIA and remained a Prussian province for 200 years, until 1945. As mentioned, Silesia's capital was the city of BRESLAU.