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Upper Silesia
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Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia
(;
Silesian
:
Gurny Slunsk
; ; ;
Silesian German
:
Oberschläsing
; ) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of
Silesia
. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of (chronologically)
Greater Moravia
, the Duchy of
Bohemia
, the
Piast Kingdom of Poland
, again of the
Lands of the Bohemian Crown
and the
Holy Roman Empire
, as well as of the
Habsburg Monarchy
from 1526. In 1742 the bulk of Upper Silesia was annexed by the
Kingdom of Prussia
, and in 1871 became part of the
German Empire
. These became part of the
Republic of Poland
in 1945.
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