The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province...

Province of Silesia and became part of the newly reborn Poland as a result of the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, the Geneva Conventions, three Upper Silesian...

Austrian Silesia, officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804...

Battle of Annaberg was fought in the region in 1921. In the Upper Silesia plebiscite of March 1921, a majority of 59.4% voted against merging with Poland and...

Regierungsbezirk Oppeln). After three Silesian Uprisings and the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, the East Upper Silesian part of the province around the industrial...

Battle of Annaberg was fought in the region in 1921. In the Upper Silesia plebiscite of March 1921, 59,4% voted against merging with Poland and 40,6% voted...

and legal future of Upper Silesia, part of which became Polish territory after the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite. Upper Silesia, with its mixed Polish...

200 km² and about 3.5 million people. The Upper Silesian Industrial Region is located in the province of Upper Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland...

Upper Silesia (Fana Gůrnygo Ślůnska [ˈfa.na gur.ˈnɪgo ˈɕlonska]) serves as the symbol of the historical and geographical region of the Upper Silesia in...

of Upper Silesia became again part of Poland by the decision of the Entente Powers after insurrections by Poles and the Upper Silesian plebiscite, while...

("Territorial Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia", "Homeland Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia") is an organization of Germans...

Polenaufstände) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time. Ethnic Polish...

known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region...

Prussian Province of Silesia and later Lower Silesia from 1813 to 1945. It comprised the eastern parts of the historic Lower Silesia region and the former...

New Silesia (German: Neuschlesien or Neu-Schlesien) was a small province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807, created after the Third Partition...

Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with Upper Silesia as the Province of Silesia. The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland). The...

Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny Śląsk [ˈdɔlnɨ ˈɕlɔ̃sk]; Czech: Dolní Slezsko; German: Niederschlesien [ˈniːdɐˌʃleːzi̯ən] ; Silesian: Dolny Ślōnsk; Upper Sorbian:...

control of the Bohemian crown and as such were known as the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia until 1918. In the (vain) hope to prevent an inheritance dispute...

David Lloyd George's suggestion, the Upper Silesia plebiscite was organized. Before it took place on 20 March 1921, two Silesian Insurrections instigated...

In 1945, Lower Silesia was made again part of Poland as agreed at the post-war Potsdam Conference. As a consequence, Lower Silesia suffered a nearly...

Silesia national football team (Polish: Reprezentacja Śląska w piłce nożnej), also known as Upper Silesia, Upper Silesia, Poland, Polish Silesia or Polish...

region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the historical region of Silesia. The region borders the Olomouc Region to the west and the Zlín Region...

The Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB; Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland...

around 5 million inhabitants. Geographically, it is located mainly in Upper Silesia, with small parts of the area also in the historical regions of Moravia...

East Upper Silesia (German: Ostoberschlesien) is the easternmost extremity of Silesia, the eastern part of the Upper Silesian region around the city of...

difference than variation; Silesia) żymlok (a variation of Krupniok based on cut bread roll instead of buckwheat; Silesia) Pinkel (Northwest Germany)...

of Poland's Council of Ministers which expanded the earlier existing Upper Silesia Metropolitan Union (Polish: Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny). That...

Wehrmacht out of Silesia. According to Soviet information, the Germans lost 54,000 soldiers: 40,000 dead and 14,000 captured in the Upper Silesian offensive...

output and military recruits, Silesia held great geostrategic importance to multiple parties. The valley of the Upper Oder formed a natural military...

and eastern parts of the country Silesian and Kashubian, spoken in Upper Silesia and Pomerania respectively, are thought of as either Polish dialects...