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Austrian Silesia, [a] officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, [b] was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire, and from 1867 the Cisleithanian portion of Austria-Hungary ). It is largely coterminous with the present-day region of Czech Silesia (with a smaller part in ...
- Silesia
The Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was then...
- History of Silesia
The Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was divided...
- Silesia
Mar 11, 2024 · Silesia, historical region located mainly in what is now Poland, shown before the First Silesian War, 1740. 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 ...
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For Austria the most serious loss was Silesia, which Maria Theresa found necessary to cede to Prussia first in 1742 and again in 1745. Losing Silesia opened the way to the rise of Prussia as the most serious rival of the Habsburgs in Germany. It also meant a considerable decrease in the proportion of Germans living within Habsburg lands, with ...
Silesian Wars, 18th-century contests between Austria and Prussia for the possession of Silesia. The First Silesian War (1740–42) and the Second Silesian War (1744–45) formed parts of the great European struggle called the War of the Austrian Succession (see Austrian Succession, War of the).
Silesia went to Austrian control with the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War. The Habsburgs encouraged Catholicism and succeeded in reconverting 60 percent of the population of Silesia, with massive assistance of Jesuits, who funded schools for the privileged and non-privileged classes alike.
