Silesia

Examples

• All

• Blucher's Army of Silesia and Schwartzenburg's Army of Bohemia.

• At 16, she moved to Silesia, where she attended a college preparatory school.

• My father is a miner in Silesia.

  Copying Beethoven (2006)

• Poland would have been easier to reform if its exhausted industrial regions, like Silesia, could have been abandoned.

  Academic text (1996)

• But we look in particular to the young Polish generation now living in Pomerania, Silesia, and elsewhere, and we call to them: "We want peace."

  Academic text (1990)

• Masur was born in Brieg, Silesia, which is now a part of Poland.

  Academic text (1998)

• Their suspicion of outsiders made Silesia a hotbed of opposition to communist rule, especially after the imposition of martial law in December 1981.

  Academic text (1998)

• I am actually from Silesia, a historical region located in modern-day Poland.

Synonyms

S

Schlesien

vsSilesia

9.9

The German name for a historical region in central Europe now mostly in Poland

is the English description noting the 1742 annexation and current national location

S

Slezsko

vsSilesia

9.9

A historical region in central Europe now mostly in Poland, known for coal and iron

is the English description noting the 1742 annexation and current national location

S

Slask

vsSilesia

9.1

A historical region in central Europe rich in coal and iron now mostly in the southwest of Poland

adds the specific annexation date and broader historic detail

Surface Forms

Etymology