Górny Śląsk(Polish) Gůrny Ślůnsk(Silesian) Horní Slezsko(Czech) Oberschlesien(German)
Historical region
From top, left to right: Opole Old Town
Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry
Gliwice Old Town
Cieszyn Old Town
Flag
Coat of arms
Location of Upper Silesia on the map of Poland
Contemporary map of Upper Silesia in English
Countries
Poland Czech Republic
Historical capital
Opole
Largest city
Katowice
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Highways
Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)
Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląskⓘ ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk;[1] 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 Czech Republic. The area is predominantly known for its heavy industry (mining and metallurgy).
^This is two leading ways of writing of Silesian alphabet, e.i. used on Silesian Wikipedia and various Silesian websites: http://www.wachtyrz.eu/ Archived 2021-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, http://silling.org Archived 2021-02-28 at the Wayback Machine.
estimated at 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and UpperSilesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture...
The Province of UpperSilesia (German: Provinz Oberschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Oberschläsing; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Gōrny Ślōnsk; Polish: Prowincja...
of the Prussian Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into UpperSilesia and Lower Silesia on 27 January 1941. The Gau...
Austrian Silesia, officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804...
The UpperSilesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province...
East UpperSilesia (German: Ostoberschlesien) is the easternmost extremity of Silesia, the eastern part of the Upper Silesian region around the city of...
serves as the symbol of the historical and geographical region of the UpperSilesia, and as one of the symbols of the Silesian people, is divided horizontally...
1289–1292 Bohemian king Wenceslaus II became suzerain of some Upper Silesian duchies. Silesia subsequently became a possession of the Crown of Bohemia under...
of Prussia within Weimar Germany, Silesia was divided into the provinces of UpperSilesia and Lower Silesia. Silesia was reunified briefly from 1 April...
Silesian or Upper Silesian is a West Slavic ethnolect of the Lechitic group spoken by a small percentage of people in UpperSilesia. Its vocabulary was...
Polenaufstände) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in UpperSilesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time. Ethnic Polish and...
known as UpperSilesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region...
of Poland's Council of Ministers which expanded the earlier existing UpperSilesia Metropolitan Union (Polish: Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny). That...
Germany, and the Czech Republic. Historically, the region of Silesia (Lower and Upper) has been inhabited by Polish (West Slavic Lechitic people), Czechs...
control of the Bohemian crown and as such were known as the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia until 1918. In the (vain) hope to prevent an inheritance dispute...
The Holocaust in East UpperSilesia resulted in the murder of most of the Jews living in East UpperSilesia during World War II. It is best known as the...
arms and colors of Lower Silesia are simultaneously used as symbols of Silesia as a whole. The coat of arms of UpperSilesia shows a golden eagle on a...
having been recognized as a City of Music. The area around Katowice, in UpperSilesia, has been inhabited by ethnic Silesian tribes from its earliest documented...
Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with UpperSilesia as the Province of Silesia. The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland). The...
voiced a claim to UpperSilesia, which had been part of Prussia. The Treaty of Versailles had recommended a plebiscite in UpperSilesia to determine whether...
Bracht (18 January 1899 – 9 May 1945) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau UpperSilesia. After training as a gardener, Bracht entered military service in 1917...
Cieszyn, Bytom, Niemodlin, Opole, Strzelce, Racibórz and Opava in UpperSilesia and the ecclesiastical Duchy of Nysa. Between 1327 and 1329 most dukes...
the biggest city in German-ruled western UpperSilesia and the second biggest city in German-ruled Silesia after Wrocław (then Breslau). Nevertheless...
around 5 million inhabitants. Geographically, it is located mainly in UpperSilesia, with small parts of the area also in the historical regions of Moravia...
the political movement for UpperSilesia and Cieszyn Silesia to become a sovereign state. Since the 9th century, UpperSilesia has been part of Greater...
Silesian people in the state of Saxony in Germany. The Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, an autonomous region of Kingdom of Bohemia, within Austria-Hungary...
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