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    wealth in the 19th century. From 1816 to 1922, the town was the seat of Kreis Pleß [de]. During the Polish January Uprising in 1863 Poles smuggled large...
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    Kreis Leobschütz Kreis Lublinitz Kreis Neiße Kreis Neustadt Kreis Oppeln Kreis Pleß Kreis Ratibor Kreis Rosenberg Kreis Rybnik Kreis Tarnowitz Kreis Tost-Gleiwitz...
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    fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" (in Latin). Retrieved 13 July 2014. Kreis Pless Archived 2015-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Czembor, Henryk (1993). Ewangelicki...
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    718 inhabitants in 1885. From 1818 to 1922 it was part of the Kreis (district) of Pless until it was turned over to Poland in 1922. Near Kosztowy there...
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  • (Landkreis) of Bendsburg, Beuthen-Tarnowitz, Bielitz, Kattowitz, Krenau, Ilkenau, Pless, Rybnik, Saybusch, Teschen, and Toszek-Gleiwitz. In the spring of 1945,...
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    County of Bytom became a Prussian district - District of Beuthen (German: Kreis Beuthen). In 1873 the Beuthen District was divided up: The Kattowitz, Tarnowitz...
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    Canaris Karl Plagge (1897–1957), Wehrmacht officer, acted alone Philipp Pless [de] (1906–1973), Communist Party Opposition Sepp Plieseis (1913–1966),...
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    Weinstadt (category Rems-Murr-Kreis)
    city of Weinstadt in 1975. Today, the city is the 6th largest in Rems-Murr-Kreis. As the name implies, Weinstadt is best known for its vineyards and production...
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    in 1564 only the bishop of Breslau, the rulers and lordships of Loslau, Pleß and Trachenberg and 10% of the population remained Catholic. Silesia became...
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