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September 2004
by M. M.
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![[Silesianflag]](http://krnov.webpark.cz/cz-siles.bmp)
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this website
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Info to Czech-Silesian flag: http://www.svedomi.cz/svedomi/2003/cej_0301_vlajka.htm
Silesia (Polish, lšsk; German, Schlesien; Czech Slezsko), historic region of central Europe, mostly in what is now south-west Poland, comprising the Silesian, Opole and Lower Silesian Voivodships and part of Lubusz Voivodship. Silesia also included sections of the present-day Moravian-Silesian and Olomouc Regions or of North Moravian Region (from year 1960) of Czechia and of the states of Brandenburg and Saxony in eastern Germany. In the Middle Ages, Silesia was settled by a mixed German and Polish population. It became part of the kingdom of Poland in the 11th century and was acquired by Bohemia in the 14th century. The region was ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs from 1526 to 1742, when most of it was annexed by Prussia. In the 19th century it became a centre for the textile and coal-mining industries. After World War II, almost all of Prussian Silesia reverted to Poland, and the German population was expelled.
Silesia was in 1742 divorced into Austrian Silesia and Prussian Silesia. Austrian Silesia was consisted of present Czech Silesia with all Teschen Silesia (Bezirk Teschen and Bezirk Bielitz), but without Hultschin Silesia.
Map of Austria-Hungary with Austrian Silesia:
Map of Austrian Silesia:
Map of Hultschin Silesia:
Sudeten-Silesia is present Czech Silesia without Czech Teschen Silesia (Olsa Territory) and without Hultschin Silesia.
Czech Silesia (or Bohemian Silesia too) consists of Český Těín Silesia, Opava Silesia, Hlučín Silesia, Krnov Silesia, Bruntál Silesia and Jeseník (Frývaldov) Silesia.
Map of Czech Silesia: 
In other languages:
Austrian Silesia (en), rakouské Slezsko (cs), lšsk Austriacki (pl), Österreichisch Schlesien, k. k. Schlesien (de)
Sudeten-Silesia (en), sudetské Slezsko (cs), lšsk Sudecki (pl), Sudetenschlesien (de)
Czech Silesia, Bohemian Silesia (en), české Slezsko (cs), lšsk Czeski (pl), Tschechisch Schlesien, Böhmisch Schlesien (de)
History of Austrian Silesia:
http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~db723152/OeSchlesien.htm
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/kuk_schlesien.htm
History of Czech Silesia:
http://bruntal.net/view.php?cisloclanku=2004030404
Moravian Enclaves in (Czech) Silesia:
http://bruntal.net/view.php?cisloclanku=2004033105
History of Hultschin Silesia:
http://www.kozmice.cz/historie/hlucin.php3
History of Olsa Territory (Zaolzie (pl), Záolí (cs), Olsa Gebiet (de)):
http://wiem.onet.pl/wiem/00b883.html
http://skrabis.kdu.cz/text/historie.htm
Place names: http://sweb.cz/martin.markovic/links.htm
The German-stylized Eagle with colors of (Lower) Silesia.
Silesian Eagle 1st Class
from this
web-site and this
web-sites
Silesian Eagle 1st Class an award to member of Freikorps (semi formal military body formed by veterans of the German Army), who fought against annexation of eastern German region of Silesian by predatory Germany's eastern neighbours, notably Poland. The words read "Für Schlesien" (For Silesia)
![[HSMS flag]](http://flagspot.net/images/c/cz}hsms.gif)
by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 25 Apr 2001, after
image from this website, reported
by Jarig Bakker, 8 May 2000 CoA of HSMS
from this website
from this website
from this website
National Liberation Initiative for Independence of Moravia-Silesia (colors of Moravia-Silesia)
from this website
Colours of Moravia-Silesia. National Liberation Initiative for Independence of Moravia-Silesia (Národně osvobozenecká iniciativa za nezávislost Moravy a Slezska) - the blue colour symbolyze the background of the CoA of Moravia, the yellow colour symbolyze the background of the CoA of Silesia.
from
this website
MoDS - Moravian Democratic Party (Moravská demokratická strana)
Association of Industrial Concerns of Moravia and Silesia, (Společenství průmyslových podniků Moravy a Slezska, URL: http://www.sppmas.cz
from this
site
This is Sudeten-German Moravian-Silesian Eagle CoA of part of CoA of the Reich District of Sudetenland (en) (District of Sudetenland (en) Sudeten District (en); Reichsgau Sudetenland (de), Gau Sudetenland (de), Sudetengau (de); Říská upa Sudety (cs), upa Sudety (cs), Sudetská upa (cs)) from 1938 year. The German-stylized Eagle with colors of Moravia and Silesia.
from this website
This is CoA of the Province of Sudetenland (the regions North Moravia and Sudeten-Silesia, proclaimed a Land of the new German Austrian State in October 1918) the of the part of the Great CoA of German-Austria from 1918. (Three fields, upper red field with silver Bohemian Lion with golden crown, bottom left golden field with black (Silesian ?) Eagle with golden crown, bottom right blue field with red-gold checked (Moravian ?) Eagle with golden crown.)
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Flags and CoAs of:
Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, separatistic Republic of Silesia, here: http://krnov.webpark.cz/republikasilesia.htm
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