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  2. Strzelin - Wikipedia

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    Strzelin [ˈstʂɛlʲin] (German: Strehlen, [2] Czech: Střelín) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. [3] It is located on the Oława river, a tributary of the Oder, about 39 kilometres (24 miles) south of the region's capital Wrocław. It is part of the Wrocław metropolitan area.

  3. Upper Silesia - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to the situation in Lower Silesia, where almost the totality of the pre-war population that was expelled was exclusively German-speaking (only about 50-60% of the population of Upper Silesia was displaced to Germany, while over 95-97% of population of Lower Silesia was displaced), the pre-war population of Upper Silesia was in ...

  4. Province of Silesia - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Silesia (German: Provinz Schlesien; Polish: Prowincja Śląska; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1742 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871.

  5. History of Silesia - Wikipedia

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    In the Treaty of Versailles, after the defeat of Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, it was decided that the population of Upper Silesia should hold a plebiscite to determine the division of the province between Poland and Germany, with the exception of a 333 km 2 (129 sq mi) area around Hlučín (Hultschiner Ländchen), which ...

  6. Silesia - Wikipedia

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    Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.

  7. Landkreis Ohlau - Wikipedia

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    On October 1, 1933, the Ohlau district was re-established, but did not include the part that had fallen to the Strehlen district in 1932. On April 1, 1938, the provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia were merged to form the new Province of Silesia. On January 18, 1941, the Province of Silesia was dissolved again and the Province of Lower ...

  8. Province of Upper Silesia - Wikipedia

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    Before the war, German Upper Silesia was home to a very large ethnically Polish/Silesian minority in Germany, so the flight and expulsion of Germans did not affect the region as much. In 1950, most of the region's population were its autochthons , who had had German citizenship before World War II , and were granted Polish citizenship after 1945.

  9. Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939) - Wikipedia

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    After the First World War a dispute arose about the future of Upper Silesia.This part of the Silesia region was the least affected by centuries of Germanisation.The population was predominantly Slavic, especially in rural areas, although over the years the percentage of the German population increased and in many cities Germans constituted the majority.