Autonomous region of Bohemia and Austria (1742–1918)
Not to be confused with Duchies of Silesia or Duchy of Silesia.
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Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia
Herzogtum Ober- und Niederschlesien(German) Vévodství Horní a Dolní Slezsko(Czech) Księstwo Górnego i Dolnego Śląska(Polish)
1742–1918
Flag
Coat of arms
Austrian Silesia (shown in red) within Austria-Hungary until 1918
Status
Crown land of the Kingdom of Bohemia and:
Habsburg monarchy (until 1804)
Austrian Empire (1804–1867)
Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary (from 1867)
Capital
Troppau (Opava)
Common languages
German
Polish
Czech
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Lutheranism
Government
Principality
History
• Division of Silesia
1742
• Part of Austrian Empire
1804
• Crown land of Cisleithania
1867
• Disestablished
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchies of Silesia
Province of Silesia
Czech Silesia
Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship
Today part of
Czech Republic
Poland
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 Poland) and was, historically, part of the larger Silesia region.
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Austrian Empire, and from 1867 the Cisleithanian portion of Austria-Hungary). It is largely coterminous with the present-day region of Czech Silesia (with...
estimated at 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture...
and Lower Silesia as well as the adjacent County of Kladsko, which the Prussian King Frederick the Great had all conquered from the Austrian Habsburg monarchy...
Region. It is almost identical in extent with AustrianSilesia (also known as the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia), before 1918; between 1938 and 1945, part...
Jaworzno and Sosnowiec). Divided Cieszyn Silesia as well as former AustrianSilesia are historical parts of Upper Silesia. According to the 9th century Bavarian...
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Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was divided into the Provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia. AustrianSilesia (officially: Duchy of...
fought mainly in Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia (the lands of the Bohemian Crown) and formed one theatre of the wider War of the Austrian Succession. It was...
part of Silesia was lost in the mid-18th century, but the rest of the Lands passed to the Austrian Empire and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary...
of Silesia was under Prussian control, and the remaining Austrian strongholds of Glogau, Brieg and Neisse were besieged. In late March an Austrian force...
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...
under Habsburg sovereignty were ruled as Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia (AustrianSilesia). Lusatia, was ceded to Saxony in 1635. Upper Lusatia Lower Lusatia...
Silesia, the Province of Lower Silesia, and by the authorities of the Austrian Empire in the coat of arms of an autonomous region of AustrianSilesia...
between Prussia and Austria (together with its allies) that lasted from 1756 to 1763 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in south-western...
Kingdom of Hungary, it fell to the Austrian Habsburg monarchy in 1526. In 1742, Austria ceded nearly all of Lower Silesia to the Kingdom of Prussia in the...
Eastern Silesia was formerly the Austrian crownland AustrianSilesia, which was occupied by Czechoslovakia after World War I. It had an area of 1,987 sq...
the symbol of the historical and geographical regions of the Silesia, and Lower Silesia, and as one of the symbols of the Silesian people, is divided...
The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Bohemia, and Upper Saxony and formed one theatre of the wider War of the Austrian Succession. It was the second...
losing most of historic Silesia to Prussia in the Silesian Wars, the Habsburgs consolidated what remained into AustrianSilesia. Maria Beatrice Ricciarda...
Saxony, Sweden, and Russia. Prussia occupied the Austrian province of Silesia in 1740, although Austria and Sardinia defeated Spanish attacks in Northern...
and took the affluent Habsburg province of Silesia in the eight-year conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession. In defiance of the grave situation...
1742, the remaining lands of the Bohemian Crown—Bohemia, Moravia and AustrianSilesia—have been more or less co-extensive with the territory of the modern-day...
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Krnov and Nysa remained with the Habsburg monarchy and merged into the AustrianSilesia crown land in 1849. The so-called "commander line" of the Habsburg-Lorraine...
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