The Duchy of Silesia (Polish: Księstwo śląskie, German: Herzogtum Schlesien, Czech: Slezské knížectví) with its capital at Wrocław was a medieval provincial duchy of Poland located in the region of Silesia. Soon after it was formed under the Piast dynasty in 1138, it fragmented into various Silesian duchies.

Silesia is situated along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, …

In 1742, most of Silesia was seized by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession and subsequently made the Prussian Province of Silesia. After World War I, Lower Silesia, having by far a German majority, remained with Germany while Upper Silesia, after a series of insurrections by the Polish inhabitants, was split.

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.

Silesia is a historical region in central Europe spanning the territory named Magna Germania by Tacitus. It is encircled by the upper and middle Oder (Odra) River, upper Vistula River, and the Sudeten and Carpathian mountain ranges. It consists largely of the river basin and is bound by the Kraków-Wielun plateau to the northeast.

Silesia entered the historical record as a province of the kingdom of Poland, in the 11th and 12th centuries. As the Polish monarchy and the seniorate had fallen apart by the early 13th century, Silesia (Lower Silesia) and Opole (Upper Silesia) became independent duchies.

From 1550, Silesia passed almost completely under foreign administration, first under the Habsburgs, who had united the kingship of Bohemia with Austria and the imperial crown. The …

Silesia , Polish Śląsk German Schlesien, Historic region, east-central Europe. It now lies mainly in southwestern Poland, with parts in Germany and the Czech Republic. It was originally a Polish province that became a possession of the Bohemian crown, and thus part of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1335.

2025年1月23日 · Guide to Silesia (Schlesien) ancestry, family history, and genealogy before 1945: birth records, marriage records, death records. In this region, part of Germany which was lost to other countries after World War II, many records, both church/parish registers and civil registration records, were damaged, destroyed, or misplaced.

The Duchies of Silesia were the more than twenty divisions of the region of Silesia formed between the 12th and 14th centuries by the breakup of the Duchy of Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1335, the duchies were ceded to the Kingdom of Bohemia under the Treaty of Trentschin.