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Strzelin [ˈstʂɛlʲin] (German: Strehlen, [2] Czech: Střelín) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. 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.
Upper Silesia is situated on the upper Oder River, north of the Eastern Sudetes mountain range and the Moravian Gate, which form the southern border with the historic Moravia region. Within the adjacent Silesian Beskids to the east, the Vistula River rises and turns eastwards, the Biała and Przemsza tributaries mark the eastern border with ...
List of Polish exonyms for places in Germany; List of European exonyms; List of cities and towns in East Prussia; List of places in Cieszyn Silesia; List of placenames in the Province of Pomerania; Commission for the Determination of Place Names
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 ...
Silesia was reunified briefly from 1 April 1938 to 27 January 1941 as a province of Nazi Germany before being divided back into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia. Breslau (present-day Wrocław, Poland ) was the provincial capital.
This list may not reflect recent changes. German toponyms (Upper Silesia) List of the German exonyms in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship; B. Będzin; Bielsko-Biała;
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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.