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3 days ago · The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Katowice metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava and the German city of Görlitz are within Silesia's borders.
- Silesians
Silesians in the Opole and Silesian Voivodeships of Poland...
- Silesian Language
Distribution. Silesian speakers currently live in the region...
- Lower Silesia
Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny Śląsk [ˈdɔlnɨ ˈɕlɔ̃sk]; Czech:...
- Sudeten Mountains
The Sudetes (/ s uː ˈ d iː t iː z / soo-DEE-teez), also...
- Province of Silesia
The Province of Silesia (German: Provinz Schlesien; Polish:...
- Silesians
May 31, 2024 · Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
2 days ago · The Katowice metropolitan area consists of about 40 adjacent cities and towns, the whole Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area (mostly within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin) over 50 cities or towns and a population of 5,008,000.
1 day ago · Bielsko-Biała is the administrative, economic, academic and cultural centre for the Silesian-Lesser Polish border region, sometimes colloquially referred to as Podbeskidzie. [notes 1] It is also an important commercial and industrial hub, as well as a road and railway junction.
May 20, 2024 · A part of German Prussia since the mid-eighteenth century, Upper Silesia differed from other areas of Prussian Poland in that it was never a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The area was ethnically and linguistically mixed but religiously homogenous, with Catholics comprising 90 percent of the population.
2 days ago · Territorial history[edit] In 1492, the territory of Poland-Lithuania – not counting the fiefs of Mazovia, Moldavia, and Prussia – covered 1,115,000 km 2 (431,000 sq mi), making it the largest territory in Europe; by 1793, it had fallen to 215,000 km 2 (83,000 sq mi), the same size as Great Britain, and in 1795, it disappeared completely. [4]
2 days ago · Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship . The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting, a shrine to the Virgin Mary.
