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3 unusual facts about Silesian


Giesche

Thus they made some attempts to take over full stock capital of Silesian-American (Spolka’s parent company), although unsuccessful – compare Silesian-American Corporation.

Nick Nostitz

Nick Nostitz (born 1968) is the professional name of 'Nikolaus Freiherr von Nostitz' - a German photographer who is a member of the aristocratic Silesian Nostitz family and has lived and worked in Bangkok since 1993.

The Shadow of a Mine

Using a docudrama format, the film hightlights the hardships faced by Silesian coal miners in Waldenburg.


Bartniki

Bartniki, Milicz County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Białków

Białków, Wołów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Bílá Voda

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, the later Bishop of Olomouc, established a Piarist college on his inherited Bílá Voda estates in 1723, a response to the 1707 Convention of Altranstädt granting religious freedom to the Silesian Protestants.

Bolesławice

Bolesławice, Bolesławiec County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Bukowice

Bukowice, Milicz County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Duchy of Greater Poland

His succession was claimed by his Kuyavian cousin Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had to deal with his rivaling Silesian relative Duke Henry III of Głogów, while the Brandenburgers finally conquered the strategically important fortress of Santok on the Warta River.

Franciscus Pahr

In the 1550s, together with his father and Dominicus, Pahr contributed to building the Silesian Brzeg Castle of Brzeg and supervised the construction of fortifications at Rostock and Schwerin.

Glinica

Glinica, Wrocław County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Grabownica

Grabownica, Gmina Krośnice in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Grabownica, Gmina Milicz in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Grafenort

The German name for the village of Gorzanów, in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Grochowa

Grochowa, Ząbkowice Śląskie County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Henryków Lubański

The St. Nicholas Church is a stop on the Lower Silesian route of the Way of St. James.

Iwiny

Iwiny, Wrocław County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Janiszów

Janiszów, Trzebnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Janiszów, Kamienna Góra County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Jędrzejowice

Jędrzejowice, Dzierżoniów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Jędrzychowice

Jędrzychowice, Strzelin County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Kłębanowice

Kłębanowice, Legnica County in Gmina Legnickie Pole, Legnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, (SW Poland)

Konradswaldau

Kondratów, Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Mrowiny, Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Kopacz

Kopacz, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, a village in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-west Poland

Korytów

Korytów, Polkowice County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Korytów, Kłodzko County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Kostomłoty

Gmina Kostomłoty, a gmina in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, (south-west Poland)

Ligota Wielka

Ligota Wielka, Dzierżoniów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Lisowice

Lisowice, Legnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Lisowice, Środa Śląska County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Lubnów

Lubnów, Ząbkowice Śląskie County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Małuszów

Małuszów, Jawor County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Maniów

Maniów, Głogów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Marcinowice

Marcinowice, Świdnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Milicz

Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707.

Nowa Kuźnia

Nowa Kuźnia, Bolesławiec County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Piotrówek

Piotrówek, Wrocław County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Podiebrad family

He increased his property with the Lordship of County of Glatz, which he raised to a county in 1459, as well as the Silesian Duchy of Münsterberg.

Powiat bielski

Bielsko County, in Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland), the county seat being Bielsko-Biała

Raczyce

Raczyce, Jawor County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Rogówek

Rogówek, Kłodzko County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Rudawa

Rudawa, Wołów County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Silesian dialect

Silesian German, or Lower Silesian, a nearly extinct dialect of East Central German

Stanowice

Stanowice, Góra County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Stanowice, Oława County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Sulisławice

Sulisławice, Świdnica County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte (How the Silesians became, were and are Christians: a contribution to Silesian cultural history) is a 2011 book by German theologian Wolfgang Nastainczyk published by Schnell & Steiner.

Wilczków

Wilczków, Środa Śląska County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Wilczyce

Wilczyce, Wrocław County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Żabice

Żabice, Gmina Grębocice in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)


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