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    The Olza /ˈɔːlzə/ (Czech: Olše, German: Olsa) is a river in Poland and the Czech Republic, a right (eastern) tributary of the River Oder. It flows from...
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  • Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period. Its name comes from the Olza River. The history of the Trans-Olza region began in 1918, when, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian...
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  • Olza may refer to: Olza (river), a river in the Czech Republic and Poland Olza, Silesian Voivodeship, a village in Poland Cendea de Olza/Oltza Zendea,...
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    has about 23,000 inhabitants. Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza river, in the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Until the 1920...
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    centered on the towns of Cieszyn and Český Těšín and bisected by the Olza River. Since 1920 it has been divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia, and...
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    Silesian: Ćeszyn) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship....
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    of the Czech Republic. It has about 50,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Olza River in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Karviná is known as an industrial...
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    Beskids and floated on the Olza River in spring when the snow melted and the water level in the river rose. The Olza River was the most important means...
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    Czechoslovakia in the region later called Trans-Olza because the demarcation line ran through the Olza river. The events, including later Czechoslovak policies...
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    The Cieszyn parkrun course includes a section that crosses over the Olza river which marks the border with neighbouring Czech Republic and is therefore...
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    Louky, formerly a separate municipality. It lies on the left bank of the Olza River, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It has a population of 453...
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    lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia on the banks of the Olza River. The municipality has a significant Polish minority. The name of Vendryně...
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    Ambassadors in Spa, Belgium on 28 July 1920. Cieszyn was divided along the Olza river between the two newly created states of Poland and Czechoslovakia. The...
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    of Hungary, along the Olza and upper Vistula rivers to the border with Prussian Silesia in the north. In the east the Biała river at Bielsko separated...
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    Tyra (stream) (category Tributaries of the Olza)
    called Tyrka) is a stream in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Olza River. It flows through Třinec in the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is 13.2 km...
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    War II. Owned by the Żegluga Polska company, she was named after the Olza River which flows through Cieszyn Silesia. In 1918 Poland regained independence...
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    Tessin). Around the castle a town grew up on a fortified headland above the Olza River with the center around what is nowadays Plac Teatralny (Theater Square)...
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    Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is the right tributary of the Olza River, to which it enters in Závada (part of Petrovice u Karviné). It begins...
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    historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It is the left tributary of the Olza River, to which it enters in Jablunkov (Jabłonków). It originates near the border...
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  • truce on the power of which Czechoslovakia occupied areas to the west of Olza River. The Czech claim to Lusatia, which had been part of the Bohemian Kingdom...
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    Polish minority in the Czech Republic (category Polish minority in Trans-Olza)
    Czech Republic is a Polish national minority living mainly in the Trans-Olza region of western Cieszyn Silesia. The Polish community is the only national...
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    the Czech Republic. Until 1948 it was a separate town. It lies on the Olza River, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in...
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    Republic and Slovakia, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The Olza River flows through the village. The name is cultural in origin, derived from...
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    locally called Darkov Bridge) is a reinforced concrete road bridge over the Olza River in Karviná-Darkov, Czech Republic. It is a distinctive dominant of Darkov...
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    785 ft) above sea level. Jablunkov lies at the confluence of the Lomná and Olza rivers. According to historians, the predecessor of Jablunkov is to be found...
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    offers a panoramic view of Cieszyn and Czech Cieszyn on the both banks of Olza river. Visibility permitting, one can admire an interesting panorama of Silesian...
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  • held in Cieszyn, with its headquarters to be located in this town on the Olza river, where it was decided that individual associations from the Polish and...
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    Płyniesz Olzo po dolinie (category Polish minority in Trans-Olza)
    lyrics are centered on the Olza River, symbol of Cieszyn Silesia and Trans-Olza. It was published in 1889 as Nad Olzą (On the Olza), part of Śpiewy starego...
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    Kristallnacht of 1938. In October 1938, Trans-Olza (part of Cieszyn Silesia, the disputed area west of the Olza River: 876 km2 or 338 sq mi with 258,000 inhabitants)...
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    Republic. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, on the Olza River. The village was first mentioned in 1333 as Kaczyce(?). It was probably...
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