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 …

Bohemia, Czech Čechy, German Böhmen, historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. Bohemia was bounded on the south by Austria, on the west by Bavaria, on the north by Saxony and Lusatia, on the northeast by Silesia, and on the east by Moravia. From 1918 to 1939 and …

North America: Former Country Name: Today: Newfoundland (island, with mainland area, and a province of): Canada See: Administrative Map of Canada New Spain (Nueva España) colonial territories of the Spanish Empire in North and Central America, including : Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and parts of South-West USA: New …