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La Slesia (in slesiano Ślōnsk ɕlonsk; in polacco: Śląsk; in antico polacco Ślążsk[o]; in tedesco: Schlesien; in ceco: Slezsko; in slovacco Sliezsko; in tedesco slesiano Schläsing; in lusaziano superiore Šleska; in lusaziano inferiore Šlazyńska; in latino Silesia) è una regione storica dell'Europa centrale, appartenente ...
Silesia (/ s aɪ ˈ l iː ʒ ə, s aɪ ˈ l iː ʃ i ə /, also UK: /-iː z i ə /, US: /-iː ʒ i ə,-iː ʃ ə, s ɪ ˈ-/; see below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population ...
- 40,400 km² (15,600 sq mi)
- Wrocław
- c. 8,000,000
- Prehistory
- Ancient History
- Early Medieval Slavic Tribes
- Great Moravia and Duchy of Bohemia
- Kingdom of Poland
- Silesian Duchies
- Kingdom of Bohemia
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Ethnolinguistic Structure of Prussian Silesia
The first signs of humans in Silesia date to between 230,000 and 100,000 years ago. The Silesian region between the upper Vistula and upper Oder was the northern extreme of the human penetration at the time of the last glaciation. The anatomically modern human is estimated to have arrived in Silesia about 35,000 years ago. Subsequently, Silesia was...
The first written sources about Silesia came from the Egyptian Ptolemy (Magna Germania) and the Roman Tacitus (Germania). According to Tacitus, the 1st century AD Silesia was inhabited by a multi-ethnic league dominated by the Lugii. The Silingi were also part of this federation, and most likely a Vandalic people (Germanic) that lived south of the ...
Sources describing Silesia of the 9th and 10th centuries, such as the Bavarian Geographer (c.AD 845) or Thietmar's Chronicle, indicate that the area which later became known as Silesia, was back then inhabited by several Lechitic tribes, known from written sources under their Latinised names. The Sleenzane (Slenzans; Ślężanie) lived in lands near m...
In the 9th century, parts of Silesia's territory came under the influence of Great Moravia, the first historically attested state in the region. After Great Moravia's decline one of its successors, Bohemia, gradually conquered Silesia. At the beginning of the 10th century Vratislaus I subdued the Golensize and soon afterwards seized Middle Silesia....
At the end of the 9th century Silesia came within the sphere of influence of two neighbours, the Holy Roman Empire and Poland. In 971, in order to proselytise Silesia to Christianity, Holy Roman emperor Otto I donated the tithe of the Dziadoszyce area to the Diocese of Meissen, and in 996 Otto III defined the Oder up to the spring as the border of ...
After the death of Henry II the Pious his realm was divided between various Piast dukes. In the second half of the 13th century, Henry II's grandson, Henryk IV Probus of Silesia, made an attempt to gain the Polish crown, but he died in 1290 before realizing his goal. Duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland united two of the original provinces and was cr...
Despite formal papal consent for the coronation, Wladyslaw's right to the crown was disputed by successors of Wenceslaus III (a king of both Bohemia and Poland) on the Bohemian throne. In 1327 John of Bohemia invaded. In 1327/29 the majority of the dukes of Silesia became dukes of Bohemia, while in 1331 the Duchy of Głogów and in 1336 the Duchy of ...
After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in 1526, Ferdinand I of Austria was elected King of Bohemia and thus ruler of the Crown of Bohemia (including Silesia). In 1537, the Piast Duke Frederick II of Brieg concluded the Treaty of Brieg with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, whereby the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg would inherit the...
In 1740, the annexation of Silesia by King Frederick II the Great of Prussia was welcomed by many Silesians, not only by Protestants or Germans. Frederick based his claims on the Treaty of Brieg, and his 1740 invasion began the First Silesian War (part of the War of the Austrian Succession). By war's end, the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost...
The earliest exact census figures on ethnolinguistic or national structure (Nationalverschiedenheit) of the Prussian-ruled part of Upper Silesia, come from year 1819. The last pre-WW1 general census figures available, are from 1910 (if not including the 1911 census of school children - Sprachzählung unter den Schulkindern - which revealed a higher ...
La storia della Slesia riguarda gli eventi storici inerenti a questa regione geografica dell' Europa centrale. Nella seconda metà del II millennio a.C. (tarda età del bronzo ), la Slesia apparteneva alla cultura lusaziana.
Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląsk ⓘ ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Czech: Horní Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien ⓘ ; Silesian German: Oberschläsing; Latin: Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the ...
11 mar 2024 · Silesia, 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.
In 1919, as part of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany, Silesia was divided into the provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia. Silesia was reunified briefly from 1 April 1938 to 27 January 1941 as a province of Nazi Germany before being divided back into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia.
