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Austrian Silesia

See also Duchy of Silesia
Duchy of Silesia

The Duchy of Silesia was a Middle Ages duchy located in Silesia. Soon after it was formed in 1163, it fragmented into various Duchies of Silesia....
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The Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia was an autonomous

Autonomy

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region of the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
and part of the Kingdom of Bohemia

Kingdom of Bohemia

The Kingdom of Bohemia was a country in Central Europe. It was formally established in 1212 by the Golden Bull of Sicily issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, by promoting the Duchy of Bohemia to the kingdom status, although some former rulers of Bohemia enjoyed a non-hereditary royal title....
. It is also known as Austrian Silesia (; ; ), and despite the official name it only included parts of Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Lower Silesia is to the northwest. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, Kingdom of Bohemia, Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, and later of unified German Reich....
, while none of Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast. Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of medieval Poland, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, and German Reich, and after 1945 was split between Poland and Germany....
was within its borders. It is largely coterminous with the region of Czech Silesia

Czech Silesia

Czech Silesia is one of the three Czech lands and a section of the Silesia historical region. It is located in the north-east of the Czech Republic, predominantly in Moravian-Silesian Region, with a section in northern Olomouc Region....
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As part of the Kingdom of Bohemia

Bohemia

History...
, Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
was inherited by the House of Habsburg in 1526 after the death of the Bohemian king, Louis II

Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia

Louis Jagiellon was List of Hungarian rulers and King of List of rulers of Bohemia from 1516 to 1526....
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See also Duchy of Silesia
Duchy of Silesia

The Duchy of Silesia was a Middle Ages duchy located in Silesia. Soon after it was formed in 1163, it fragmented into various Duchies of Silesia....
.

The Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia was an autonomous

Autonomy

Austrian Empire

Kingdom of Bohemia

Upper Silesia

Lower Silesia

Czech Silesia

Bohemia

History...
, Silesia

Silesia

Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia

Louis Jagiellon was List of Hungarian rulers and King of List of rulers of Bohemia from 1516 to 1526....
. The First Silesian War, part of the War of the Austrian Succession

War of the Austrian Succession

The War of the Austrian Succession involved nearly all the Power in international relations of Europe. The war began under the pretext that Maria Theresa of Austria was ineligible to succeed to the House of Habsburg throne, because Salic law precluded royal inheritance by a woman, though in reality this was a convenient excuse put forward by...
, was concluded in 1742 with the Treaty of Breslau

Treaty of Breslau

The Treaty of Breslau was signed on June 11, 1742 in Wroclaw , between Austrians archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria and Frederick II of Prussia....
, in which Silesia was divided. The Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a Germany monarchy from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire....
received most of the territory, while a small part of southern Silesia remained with the Habsburg Monarchy

Habsburg Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austria branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918....
as the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia.

In 1918, the Austrian monarchy

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
was abolished and the duchy was partly ceded to the newly-created state of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
, with the exception of Cieszyn Silesia

Cieszyn Silesia

Cieszyn Silesia or Teschen Silesia is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered around the city of Cieszyn and bisected by the Olza River....
, which was split in 1920 between Poland

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
and Czechoslovakia. Smaller parts of the duchy also became a part of Poland and a part of former Prussian Silesia went to Czechoslovakia (the area of Hlucín

Hlucín

Hluc?n is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is the center of the Hluc?n Region. The population was 14,500 as of 2004....
).

Major towns

Towns with more than 5,000 people in 1880:

Cities	German name	Population
Opava Opava Opava is a city in the northern Czech Republic on the Opava River, located to the north-west of Ostrava. The historical capital of Czech Silesia, Opava is now in the Moravian-Silesian Region and has a population of 59,843 as of January 1 2005....	Troppau	20,563
Bielsko Bielsko Bielsko was until 1950 an independent town situated in Cieszyn Silesia, Poland. In 1951 it was joined with Biala Krakowska to form the new town of Bielsko-Biala....	Bielitz	13,060
Cieszyn Cieszyn Cieszyn is a town and the seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has 36,109 inhabitants . Cieszyn lies on the Olza River, a tributary of the Oder river, opposite Cesk? Te??n.... /Tešín Ceský Tešín Cesk? Te??n is a town in the Karvin? District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. The town is commonly known in the region as just Te??n ....	Teschen	13,004
Krnov Krnov Krnov is an Upper Silesian city in the northeastern Czech Republic, in Moravian-Silesian Region, in the District of Brunt?l, on the Opava River near the Polish border....	Jägerndorf	11,792
Bruntál Bruntál Brunt?l is a town located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region. A suitable position in the middle of the Jesen?ky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the town....	Freudenthal	7,595
Frýdek Frýdek-Místek Fr?dek-M?stek is a city in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is the administrative center of Fr?dek-M?stek District. It comprises two formerly independent towns, Fr?dek and M?stek, divided by the Ostravice River....	Frydek	7,374 - 1890

Demographics

Austrian Silesia in 1910 was home to 756,949 people of the following nationalities:

43 % - Germans
Germans

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31 % - Poles
Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
26 % - Czechs