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Ryszard Piec (313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lost 5–6. During the Second World War, German occupiers allowed Upper Silesians to participate in sports tournaments. Piec's club, Naprzód Lipiny, was

Opole (4,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Poland again in 1945 after the end of World War II. Many German Upper Silesians and Poles of ethnic German ancestry still reside in the Opole region;

List of people from Silesia (3,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of notable people from Silesia. Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also External links Theodor Mommsen

Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1526–1648) (1,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Habsburg rule, they followed different paths of development. Moravians and Silesians had accepted the hereditary right of the Austrian Habsburgs to rule and

Kazimierz Kutz (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of that part of Poland, he was considered by some the spokesman of all Silesians. In a plebiscite organised by Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper he was chosen

Mausoleum in Wałbrzych (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Schlesier-Ehrenmal (Silesian Monument of Glory) is a cenotaph commemorating 170,000 Silesians who died during World War I, victims of accidents in mines, and 25 local

Lists of people by nationality (495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malayali Malays Meitei Moravians Nagas Native Hawaiians Punjabis Roma Samis Silesians Sindhis Sinhalese Sorbs Syriacs Tamils Tatars Telugus Tulus Tutsis Uyghurs

Johann Georg von Brandenburg (512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in demanding religious tolerance from Rudolf II on 25 June 1609. The Silesians received the Letter of Majesty, granting the request, on 20 August. When

Religion in the Czech Republic (3,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mystical paths. The Christianisation of the Czechs (Bohemians, Moravians and Silesians) occurred in the 9th and 10th centuries, when they were incorporated into

Flag of Saxony (694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flags equality alongside the Saxon state flag. Flag of Silesians (with eagle) Flag of Silesians Flag of Sorbs Previous versions First Saxon flag of Old

Sorbian Americans (74 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Related ethnic groups Other Sorbs • Czech Americans • Slovak Americans • Kashubian Americans • Polish Americans • Texan Silesians • German Americans

Chorzów (3,948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in January 1945 with the subsequent persecution of many ethnic Polish Silesians and Germans. At the end of World War II, Chorzów was given to Poland.

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte (How the Silesians Became, Were and Are Christians: A Contribution to Silesian Cultural History)

Freimersheim (631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

driven out of Germany’s former eastern territories, foremost among these, Silesians, came to settle in this rural idyll, many of whom have stayed until today

West Slavic languages (1,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 16th century, thus uniting the Bohemians, Moravians, Slovaks, and Silesians under a single ruler. While Lusatia was lost to Saxony in 1635 and most

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte (How the Silesians Became, Were and Are Christians: A Contribution to Silesian Cultural History)

Mettmann (952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

now comprises communities of Turks, Kurds, Kashubians, Old Prussians, Silesians, Poles, Greeks, Croatians, Serbs, Albanians, Bosnians and Lebanese heritage

St. Hedwig, Texas (736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

area from his native Silesia (modern day Poland). In 1856, four more Silesians immigrated to the area and built the site's first Catholic Church, Annunciation

5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) (927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

five days earlier. The personnel of the division was mainly made up of Silesians and Sudeten Germans, the Sudetenland having been annexed by Germany shortly

Skała (666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prince Henry I the Bearded and Mazovian duke Konrad I of Masovia. The Silesians won, forcing Mazovian units to retreat from Lesser Poland. Skala received

Leszek I the White (3,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the battle was decisively won by the Silesians, but with the escape of Mieszko III to Greater Poland, the Silesians also decided to retreat, taking with

Śląsk Świętochłowice (1,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Junak Drohobycz (0–0). During the war, the German occupiers allowed those Silesians who signed the Volksliste to participate in the games of the Gauliga Schlesien

Gerard Cieślik (487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sport und Politik in Oberschlesien im 20. Jahrhundert covering Upper Silesians who played for the Poland national team and/or the Germany national team

Slovak Americans (1,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Catholicism Lutheranism Related ethnic groups Other Slovaks • Czech Americans • Polish Americans • Kashubian Americans • Texan Silesians • Sorbian Americans

List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names (820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anhaltish Saxons Anhalters Silesia (ancient German territory) Silesian Silesians Schleswig-Holstein (federated state) Schleswig Holstein Schleswigish Holsteinish

Knurów (1,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

captured by the Soviets, who established a transit camp for local Polish Silesians who were deported to the Soviet Union (see Soviet repressions of Polish

President of Poland's Football Cup (767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Łódź – Upper Silesia 2–4. The home team fielded Antoni Gałecki, and the Silesians brought a score of top-class players, such as Ernest Wilimowski, Ryszard

Police nad Metují (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

onset of the Hussite Wars, Police was sacked and burnt by the Catholic Silesians on 27 May 1421. In 1469, the army under command of Matthias Corvinus looted

Peter Crüger (461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Praecepta logicalia. At the time of the Thirty Years' War a number of Silesians took refuge in Danzig from the ravages of war in their towns, among them

Przyszowice massacre (983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

killed by the Soviets in Silesia, many of whom were ethnic Poles and Silesians; most of these deaths, about 800, occurred in the Gliwice massacre. Soviet

Panna Maria, Texas (308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Franciscan missionary, Father Leopold Moczygemba, started recruiting Upper Silesians in 1852, when Silesia belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. The immigrants

Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Prussian Province of Silesia. As a result of their impoverished status, many Silesians would die homeless or spend their final days in poorhouses. Maria and

Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie (571 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hithero almost uninhabited regio pedemontana was settled by German-speaking Silesians and soon abounded in large Waldhufendorfer with Frankish hides and in

Demonym (2,078 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Sards") Saskatchewan → Saskatchewanians (also "Saskatchewanite") Silesia → Silesians Slavonia → Slavonians South Australia → South Australians South Dakota

Hedwig of Silesia (1,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Berlin. After the expulsion of almost all Germans from Silesia, German Silesians carried Hedwig's veneration to all over remaining Germany. In March 2020

Gerhard Wagner (physician) (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Oberschlesiens) and was chief of Munich's division of the Loyal Upper Silesians ("Verbände heimattreuer Oberschlesier"). In May 1929, he switched to the

Gauliga Generalgouvernement (951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in occupied Poland. Among them were some national players. The Upper Silesians who had played in Polish clubs before the war had also been drafted into

Kashubian Americans (401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Religion Christianity Related ethnic groups Other Kashubians • Polish Americans • Texan Silesians • Czech Americans • Slovak Americans • Sorbian Americans

Sudeten Germans (7,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bohemians), Deutschmährer (German Moravians) and Deutschschlesier (German Silesians). Even in German the broader use of "Bohemian" is also found. The term

Hans of Warnsdorf (845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acquired Žacléř Castle, from where he raided the Silesian cities, until the Silesians captured the castle. In 1441, Queen Barbara of Cilli of Bohemia pledged

Mieszko IV Tanglefoot (1,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

palatine Goworek [pl], who also arrived to help Leszek's troops, the Silesians obtained a great victory; however, because Mieszko III was not present

Góra Świętej Anny (hill) (3,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which in addition to the cultural importance of the monastery for German Silesians, had strategic importance since it dominates the Oder valley, from the

Football in occupied Poland (1939–1945) (4,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Team of Poland were from Upper Silesia; in some games there were eight Silesians in the starting lineup. Most popular football star of interwar Poland

High Prussian dialect (2,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1842. Thereafter, it was considered obvious that Warmia was settled by Silesians, who brought their dialect with them. Based on a comparison of toponymy

Polenlager (1,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

homes to make way for new settlers (see: Action Saybusch). Some of the Silesians who were imprisoned there, refused to sign the Volksliste (DVL) or claim

Lesser Poland (16,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dąbrowskie are known for their dislike of Upper Silesians, whom they call hanysy, while the Silesians call them gorole. In recent years, more inhabitants

Stem duchy (2,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

include the Märker, Lausitzer, Mecklenburger, Upper Saxons, Pomeranians, Silesians, and East Prussians, roughly reflecting German settlement activity during

Jakub Świnka (1,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ruler adopted a pro-German position and started promoting Germanized Silesians over Polish-speaking priests and politicians. Since 1304 king Wenceslaus

Oświęcim (3,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hitlerjugend, and BDM, as well as German civilians, the Volksdeutsche, and Upper Silesians who were disloyal to Poland. After World War II, new housing complexes

Sanok, Poland (3,370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hithero almost uninhabited regio pedemontana was settled by German-speaking Silesians and soon abounded in large Waldhufendorfer with Frankish hides and in

Ministry of Public Security (Poland) (3,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Milicja Obywatelska (MO) Zgoda labour camp, a concentration camp for Silesians, Germans, and Poles, operated in 1945 by the Polish secret police Piotrowski

Dialects of Polish (2,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

classify it as a separate regional language, distinct from Polish. Many Silesians consider themselves a separate ethnicity and have been advocating the

Volksdeutsche (5,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

marrying a Polish partner or through working relationships (especially Silesians and Kashubians). Category IV: Persons of German ancestry who had become

Franciszek Bajorek (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Great Britain after 1945, where he established the Association of Cieszyn Silesians, being its chairman for 40 years. Franciszek Bajorek was considered the

Corps Guestphalia Halle (1,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

united the associations of the Pomeranians, Märkers, Guestphalians and Silesians into a cartel and regulated their behavior towards each other as well

Charles University (5,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

natives of Franconia and of the Rhine provinces; the Polish included Silesians, Poles, Ruthenians; the Saxon included inhabitants of the Margravate of

Adolf Bertram (2,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Silesian population would vote for Poland. In the end, almost 60% of Upper Silesians voted for Germany. The Polish government protested Bertram's decision

Pogoń Lwów (3,812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

propaganda exercise, with its main purpose to show Polish-speaking Upper Silesians the strength of Polish sports. Two games were of special importance –

Mirosław Sekuła (819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the War in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, noting the strong connections Silesians had with the Donbas region. In September 2014, Sekuła announced his resignation

Święta wojna (892 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

local xenophobe who passionately hates anything related to "gorols" (non-Silesians), specifically to those from Warsaw or the nearby Sosnowiec. He lives

Boleslaus, son of Děpolt (387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and his Czech retinue at the Battle of Legnica, alongside the Poles and Silesians. During the battle, he was shot by an arrow hitting below his ear. "Królewska"

Zgoda labour camp (2,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Most camp inmates were over 40 years old. The majority consisted of Silesians from the Volksliste category I and II as well as ethnic Germans, with