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| | SILESIA - LoveToKnow Article on SILESIA |
 | | At the census of 1905 the population of Silesia was 4,942,611, of whom 2,120,361 were Protestants, 2,765,394 Catholics and 46,845 Jews. | | | The province sends thirty-five members to the Reichstag and sixty-five to the Prussian chamber of deputies. | | | Their defection, which was terminated by a capitulation in 1621, was not punished severely, but in spite of their attempt to maintain neutrality henceforth they were quite unable to secure peace. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SI/SILESIA.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Breslau |
| | After the suppression of the Jesuits the king established a Catholic-Schools Institute which included the Jesuits living in Silesia, and in which the candidates for the secular priesthood were to receive their training. | | | His scheme was a national Silesian university, endowed with all the academic privileges, which should be open to students irrespective of their religious beliefs. | | | About a century later, under the quickening impulse of Humanism, the project was again taken up by the city of Breslau in conjuction with the bishop, Johann Roth, and his coadjutor, Johann Turzo, and a "generale literarum gymnasium" to contain all four faculties was planned. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02761a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silesia |
| | During the decade of the forties the sect of "German Catholics" developed from Silesia as the starting-point; this sect was founded at Laurahutte in Upper Silesia by the ex-chaplain, John Ronge. | | | In 1905 the province had 4,942,612 inhabitants, of whom 2,765,394 were Catholics, 2,120,361 Lutherans, and 46,845 Jews; 72.3 per cent were Germans and nearly 25 per cent Poles. | | | Silesia came under the suzerainty of the kings of Bohemia in 1327-29. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13790b.htm
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| | Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Silesian Poles were massively killed or deported, and new German settlers were brought to their homes after these atrocities. | | | When the Silingi moved from the area during the Migration Period, they left remnants of their society behind. | | | One theory claims that the name Silesia is derived from the Silingi, which most likely were a Vandalic people, who supposedly lived south of the Baltic Sea along the Elbe, Oder, and Vistula rivers in the 2nd century. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia
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| | Silesia was then independent, and following the policy of the Royal and Masovian branches, encouraged German settlement of their extensive lands. | | | Approximately three million Germans were deported and forced to migrate to the West without compensation, a political issue that has yet to be settled to the satisfaction of the respective Polish and German governments. | | | After 1650, many Germans emigrated from their homeland in order to seek a better life in the New World. |
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http://www.intricatearticles.com/personal/hilliker2.html
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| | Prussia and Silesia in 1740: The Invasion that Changed the World |
| | Though Austria and her allies brought superior numbers to bear against the Prussian troops in Silesia, it was all for naught. | | | He would cede claim to some contested land (primarily Berg) and fully uphold the Pragmatic Sanction against any who would threaten the throne of Maria Theresa. | | | Using the confusion to his advantage, Frederick II of Prussia, named "the Great" by his friends and foes, ordered his soldiers into the neighboring province of Silesia. |
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http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbishop/frames/papers/prussia_silesia.html
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| | Of the three chief nationalities of the province, Poles, Ruthenians, and Jews, the Poles and the Ruthenians are about equal in numbers, and the Jews a scant ten per cent of the whole population, but a mighty factor, after all, in the commercial world of Galicia. | | | Author of The Continent of Oppurtunity, A New Way Around the Old World, Christian Endeavors in All Lands, etc. | | | Yet it is from just such countries that the hardiest people come; those who, other things being equal, make the best citizens. |
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http://www.voicenet.com/~pmargush/galicia.htm
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| | PolandGenWeb - Dolnośląskie ( Dolnoslaskie ) Province |
| | PolandGenWeb and its province pages are part of the World GenWeb Project. | | | German people, who lived there before WWII was expelled across the border to the Germany. | | | This page is dedicated to the province of Dolnoslaskie,southwest Poland which was created in 1999 from four old Polish provinces: Wroclawskie, Jeleniogorskie, Legnickie and Walbrzyskie. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~poldolno
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| | German Genealogy: Silesia |
| | The archive will only answer simple inquiries and does not conduct research itself. | | | Standesamt records over 100 years old are archived in Polish State Archives (see Polish Archives below). | | | See also this List of German genealogical societies. |
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http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SCI/sil-e.html
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| | The Seven Years War |
| | Frederick tried another of his famous flank attacks, but rough terrain hampered the effort and he was badly beaten at Kunersdorf, losing 19,000 of his nearly 50,000 men. | | | Frederick began the year in April by besieging Olmutz in Moravia from his base in Silesia, but the Austrians threatened his lines of communications and forced him to withdraw. | | | Frederick was unable to prevent the junction of the Austrians and Russians in Silesia, and took up a strong position at Bunzelwitz which the allies would not attack. |
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http://members.cox.net/johnahamill/sevenyears.html
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| | Polish boys clothes -- Jarostaw Boy |
| | A Polish reader confirms, "There are two Jaroslaws, one is as the other explains, but the second one is in (Lower) Silesia near Breslau. | | | Warsaw at the time was part of German Empire, if it is the town in Silesia that we believe it to be. | | | Warsaw before World war I was at the time was part of Russian Empire, but Jaroslow if it is the town in Silesia that we believe was in the German Empire. |
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| | Opolskie Province |
| | PolandGenWeb and its province pages are part of the World GenWeb Project | | | PolandGenWeb is grateful for their kind permission to use this map! | | | Others Researching in Opole Province -- a list of others researching in various towns in the Opole province; may include a list of surnames each submitter is researching |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~polopole
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| | Re: Breslau, Silesia, Prussia |
| | You will also note how vast Prussia was. | | | Silesia's capital, Breslau, which in 1939 had about 630,000 people, is now known by the Polish name WROCLAW. | | | As mentioned, Silesia's capital was the city of BRESLAU. |
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?germany::43144.html
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| | Bibliography |
| | "Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland, 1942-1949 | | | Silesia was the first region in which the idea of emigration emerged. | | | The book is organized by date of emigration, then by province, district and village emigrated from and then family names are listed along with first names and ages. |
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http://members.aol.com/BeallComp/biblio.htm
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| | Province of Posen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Known as the "cradle of the Polish nation", this region was the home to Poles, Germans, some Jews and a smattering of other peoples. | | | With the unification of Germany, the province of Posen became part of the German Empire (1871-1918) and the city of Posen was officially named an imperial residence city. | | | This was despite efforts of the government in Berlin, which established a resettlement program to buy land from Poles and make it available only to Germans. |
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| | Silesia |
| | Middle Silesia Middle Silesia the eastern part of Kluczbork. | | | Lower Silesia Lower Silesia (Polish Dolny Śląsk, German Niederschlesien) is the north-western part of the hist... | | | Upper Silesia Upper Silesia (Polish Górny Śląsk, German Oberschlesien) is the south-eastern part of Silesian V... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/silesia.html
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| | Lower Silesia (Prussian province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lower Silesia (German Niederschlesien) was a province of Prussia which together with Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) formed most of the historical region Silesia until the end of World War II. | | | This page was last modified 01:33, 18 August 2005. | | | The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (Wrocław). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Silesia_(Prussian_province)
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| | Ancestors and Family of Wladyslaw II the Exile of Cracow |
| | He controlled the high-duke province of Kraków and Gniezno and also his hereditary province of Silesia. | | | After his father's death, Wladislaus, as his oldest son, became the High-Duke of Poland. | | | Subsequenly Silesia was divided among his descendants and successors (going up to 17 duchies), until they died out in 1675. |
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| | Eastern Silesia 1918 - 1920 |
| | Because the negotiations between Czech and Polish governments have no positive result and the Polish government was not in a position to defeat the communist movement in Silesia, which had negative impact on Czechoslovak economy, the Czechoslovak government decided to occupy the territory. | | | Because at that time the tention in Czechoslovak-Hungarian relations was rising and in March the Communist had taken over the government in Hungary and set up Hungarian Soviet Republic, the Czechoslovak government immediately moved the units from Silesia to Slovakia to defend its territory. | | | At the same time a state of German population called „The Province Sudetenland" with its capital in Opava (Troppau) was founded in Northern Moravia and Bohemian part of Silesia. |
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http://czechphilatelist.tripod.com/snejdarek
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| | .:: Województwo Dolnośląskie - Lower Silesia ::. |
| | This is due to the fact that the region was settled between 1945 and 1947 by completely new inhabitants. | | | Immigrants came to Lower Silesia from different regions of pre-war Poland, mostly from its eastern territories, which after the new political division of Europe after World War II became part of the Soviet Union (nowadays Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine). | | | The Lower Silesia Province is among Poland’s leading regions in terms of the number of companies with foreign capital and the amount of the foreign capital invested. |
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| | Śląskie Voivodeship |
| | Places in Lower Silesia which are not parts of the present Śląskie Voivodeship. | | | Throughout centuries, administrative borders of Silesia underwent several changes and now it is hard to say exactly which lands are historically Silesian and which are not. | | | The name itself Upper Silesia' appeared in 15th century and its lands were in the shadow of economically predominant Lower Silesia till 18th century. |
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http://www.silesia-region.pl/ang
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| | MALOPOLSKA PROVINCE |
| | 50.6% of the province population is concentrated in 52 cities, and 26% in the capital of the province – Krakow. | | | A typical characteristic of the age distribution in the province is a share of people in the pre-production age, which is higher than the national average: 58.6% (figure for the country – 59.5%) and a share of people in the post-production age of 14.3%, which is similar to the figure for the country (14.2%). | | | In the Malopolska province, the share of people who have lost their jobs in consequence of group dismissals in the total number of the unemployed is small. |
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| | Silesia |
| | German inhabitants of the province either escaped or were expelled from Silesia after 1945 and Poles from the formerly Polish regions in the East settled there. | | | of Saxony was incoporated into Silesia, while the northernmost part of Silesia, the enclave of Swiebodzin (Schwiebus) became part of the Province of Brandenburg (marked in red on the map of Brandenburg). | | | Since the 13th century Silesia together with Bohemia has come under German cultural and political influence. |
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| | LAUBAN - LoveToKnow Article on LAUBAN |
| | LAUBE, HEINRICH (1806-1884), German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Sprottau in Silesia on the i8th of September 1806. | | | He studied theology at Halle and Breslau (1826-1829), and settled in Leipzig in 1832. | | | Lauban has a Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a town hall, dating from 1541, a conventual house of the order of St Magdalene, dating from the I4th century, a municipal, library and museum, two hospitals, an orphanage and several schools. |
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| | GDW - Biographien |
| | From the beginning of World War I he takes part in the operations of his regiment in Russia and escapes from a POW camp in Siberia in 1918. | | | He campaigns successfully for the Center Party in the Landtag elections of 1932, but in 1933 is removed from Parliament and office for political reasons. | | | Schulenburg persuades Matuschka to accept the office of regional commissioner in Silesia in the event of a successful coup. |
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http://www.gdw-berlin.de/bio/ausgabe-e.php?id=62
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| | Ten Most Important People 8-10 |
| | Austria was unable to gain Silesia back from Prussian forces at the war's end. | | | Although Maria Theresa lost her province of Silesia during the war, her internal revisions of education and medicine improved her country altogether. | | | This disrupted the balance of power in Europe and the Seven Years' War resulted. |
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http://www.absolutism-n-constitutionalism.freehomepage.com/custom2.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Silesia (Prussian province) |
| | People who viewed "Silesia (Prussian province)" also viewed: | | | Silesia was the province of Prussia since 1740 till 1918. | | | Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Silesia-(Prussian-province)
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| | Warsaw Voice - Speaking Together |
| | Lower Silesia is not only an attractive place to carry out investments, it also has a qualified labor force. | | | The Province Office is interested in this area and supports any activities which could prepare this area for investment. | | | A very important issue for local governments of the city and the province is the 2006 Program for Oder. |
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http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/2976
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| | Home Page - 10 Most Important Events |
| | This came at the expense of Maria Theresa and her country of Austria. | | | This alliance of nations was too much for Austria to bear, so Maria Theresa was forced to sign a peace treaty with Frederick, giving him the province of Silesia. | | | Soon after this was established, Bavaria, Spain, Saxony, and France joined Prussia in the war against Austria. |
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http://www.absolutism-n-constitutionalism.freehomepage.com
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| | RootsWeb: CZECH-L [CZ] Comments re Silesia |
| | Prior to WW I there were 3 Silesias. | | | Hi to all, Just a small note to clear up the Silesia confusion : | | | With the permission of Ingolf Vogel I am posting this information about |
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http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/CZECH/2000-07/0962901620
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| | BRESLAU - LoveToKnow Article on BRESLAU |
| | The business streets of the city converge upon the Ring, the market square, in which is the town-hall, a fine Gothic building, begun in the middle of the 14th and completed in the 16th century. | | | Within is the FUrstensaal, in which the diets of Silesia were formerly held, while beneath is the famous Schweidnitzer Keller, used continuously since 1355 as a beer and wine house. | | | It is, however, as a commercial and industrial city that Breslau is most widely known. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BR/BRESLAU.htm
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| | Silesia -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The community was founded as Reichenbach in the 12th century and received town rights in the 13th. | | | Maria Theresa would not accept the loss of Silesia. | | | The line was never accepted as the official border but provided a basis for compromise that made the post-World War I Polish state economically viable. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9067752
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| | Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) Province, Poland |
| | The capital and perhaps major tourist attraction of the province is the city of Wroclaw (Breslaw / Breslau). | | | The region of Lower Silesia (Dolny Slasky) covers an area of around 20,000 sq km and is populated by approximately 3 million people. | | | There are a number of tourist attactions in the Lower Silesia region including: the Sudetan, Stolowe, Karkonosze and Rudawy Janowickie mountains; the Klodzko spas; a large number of castles; and many other architectural monuments. |
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http://polandpoland.com/dolnoslaskie.html
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| | Seven Years War 2005 : History |
| | However, Frederick II believed Austria would i inevitably attempt to recover Silesia with the help of France and Russia. | | | Hoping to surprise his enemies before they were prepared to attack him, he preemptively struck first. | | | Winning this war, Silesia was annexed to Prussia. |
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http://www.frob.net/syw05/history.html
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| | Silesia, Rustical Alliance |
| | The "rustical alliance" in Silesia was credited with being the most important association of the rural population in the German revolution of 1848/49. | | | The most important demands put forward by the meeting were the rescission of the feudal loads without compensation, the immediate legal fixation of this demand and the refusal of all related services together with, ultimately, the elimination of the tax privileges for the landowners. | | | At a congress on September 22 and 23 in Breslau, with almost all districts of the province being represented, the Silesian "Central Rustical Alliance" was formally constituted with the adoption of the statute and the election of a central committee. |
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http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/rz/silecia.htm
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| | Subnational Flags 1815-1918 (Prussia, Germany) |
| | Having grown to an enormous state scattered over most of the German Empire, Prussia found it convenient to organize administrative subdivisions called provinces. | | | Each of these had "land colors" or Landesfarben. | | | Provincial flags for the provinces of Prussia were prescribed from 1882 onwards. |
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http://flagspot.net/flags/de-pr-.html
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| | Winker.net - Florian & Theresia Lux |
| | Theresia died in the 1878 at age 54. | | | Florian and Theresia (may be Terese or Trease) Lux were apparently from the province of Silesia, Prussia, now located in the southern part of Poland. | | | Her first husband was Richard John, and they lived in the district of Frankenstein, province of Silesia, Prussia. |
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http://www.winker.net/lux/lux_florian.htm
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| | Görlitz (1911EB) |
| | GÖRLITZ, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the left bank of the Neisse, 62 m. | | | Görlitz, next to Breslau, is the largest and most flourishing commercial town of Silesia, and is also regarded as classic ground for the study of German Renaissance architecture. | | | Near the town is the chapel of the Holy Cross, where there is a model of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem made during the 15th century. |
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| | This, our favorite stoneware, is handmade at Poland's Ceramika Artystyczna company by craftsmen carrying on a time-honored European Bunzlauer tradition, which originated nearly 200 years ago in the German province of Silesia. | | | The long tradition of this stoneware doesn't rule out modern manufacturing methods, however. |
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http://www.hawaiian-gift-baskets.net/kwp/polish_jewelry_boxes.html
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| | The Regional Forum of Health Promotion |
| | The Regional Forum of Health Promotion is a regular meeting of local government representatives, health protection units and institutions dealing with health promotion in the Province of Silesia. | | | The Regional Council of Health Promotion should be a co-ordinator of all health promotion actions which will improve health situation of the Silesian People. | | | The Regional Forum of Health Promotion is held every year, beginning from 1996. |
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| | A few parish registers from the part of Silesia east of the Neisse are preserved in Görlitz in the | | | The Church Province of Silesia adjoins in the east with Saxony and Brandenburg; in the south it | | | The larger part of Silesia extends east of the Neisse River and to- |
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| | Regional Maps of Austria-Hungary |
| | Also shown in some detail are the Italian provinces of Lombardy and Venice, formerly under the control of Austria. | | | This map shows the boundaries of the Austrian provinces of Bohemia and Moravia (today the Czech Republic), the Prussian province of Silesia and the Kingdom of Saxony. | | | The map also includes Austrian Silesia and parts of neighboring areas. |
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http://www.generationspress.com/catalogs/austria-hungary.html
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| | Mirago : Regional: Europe: Poland: Voivodships: Upper Silesia |
| | This site is intended to give you a glimpse of the most industrialised region of Poland and to provide you with some practical business-related information | | | The Silesian Center of Public Health - in Katowice is an organ of the government administration submitted directly to the Silesian Governor | | | Slaskie Province Genealogy - Family history related to the province. |
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http://www.miragorobot.com/scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Regional/Europe/Poland/Voivodships/Upper_Silesia
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| | Glogau, Silesia |
| | Here is a selection of images of the former German town of Glogau in Lower Silesia, Prussia. | | | We hope that by making these old postcards available online that they will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of Glogau (Glogow) or researching their ancestry. | | | - the famous Schiefer Church Tower in Glogau, Silesia |
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http://www.prussianpoland.com/glogau.html
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| | Breslaw/ Breslau / Wrocław |
| | Breslaw upon the Oder, Capital of Silesia, and of particular Duchy, with a Bishoprick Suffragant of Guesn, about 1033 or 35. | | | The Inhabitants themselves keep Guard in it; and though it depends on the Emperor, with the rest of Silesia, yet it is governed as a Common-Wealth. | | | Edmond Halley, “An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind, drawn from curious Tables of the Births and Funerals at the City of Breslaw; with an Attempt to ascertain the Price of Annuities upon Lives”, Philosophical Transactions, 196 (London, 1693), p.596-610, ed. |
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http://www.pierre-marteau.com/resources/breslaw.html
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| | Family Origins Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: August KLUSKE - Silesia to South Australia 1850 |
| | This is what I understand of the family so far and is not to be taken as absolutely correct, because anybody researching family history will tell that there is rarely any definites involved: | | | August KLUSKE and Marie KLUSKE arrived in South Australia from Laesgen, Silesia in 1850 on the ship 'Reiherstieg' from Hamburg, Germany. | | | Family Origins Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: August KLUSKE - Silesia to South Australia 1850 |
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http://www.familyorigins.com/users/k/l/u/Pauline-M-Kluske
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