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Si·le·sia

(sī-lē′zhə, -shə, sĭ-)
A region of central Europe primarily in southwest Poland and the northern Czech Republic. Settled by Slavic peoples c. ad 500, the region was long contested by various states and principalities. After World War I Silesia was partitioned among Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Much of the Czechoslovakian section passed to Germany and Poland after the signing of the Munich Pact in 1938. Germany occupied Polish Silesia from 1939 to 1945, and after World War II Poland annexed most of German Silesia. Upper Silesia, in southern Poland, is an important industrialized area.
Si·le′sian adj. & n.

si·le·sia

(sī-lē′zhə, -shə, sĭ-)
n.
A sturdy twilled cotton fabric used for linings and pockets.
[After Silesia.]
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Silesia

(saɪˈliːʃɪə)
n
(Placename) a region of central Europe around the upper and middle Oder valley: mostly annexed by Prussia in 1742 but became almost wholly Polish in 1945; rich coal and iron-ore deposits. Polish name: Śląsk Czech name: Slezsko German name: Schlesien

silesia

(saɪˈliːʃɪə)
n
(Textiles) a twill-weave fabric of cotton or other fibre, used esp for pockets, linings, etc
[C17: Latinized form of German Schlesien Silesia]
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Si•le•sia

(sɪˈli ʒə, -ʃə, saɪ-)

n.
a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic.
Si•le′sian, adj., n.
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Noun 1. [画像:Silesia - a region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore]Silesia - a region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by Prussia in 1742 but now largely in Poland
Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
2. silesia - a sturdy twill-weave cotton fabric; used for pockets and linings
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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Translations
Slezsko
Sleesia
Silésie
Śląsk

Silesia

n → Schlesien nt
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Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine.
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In sharing their memories of the homeland, Catholic Silesians engaged in a still more ambitious project: reassembling the remnants of their shattered society.
Earlier we encountered such a claim to victimhood in the comparisons Kaps drew, without a trace of irony, between the Silesians and the ancient Israelites.
Silesians typically spoke German with a distinctive lilt that reinforced the sense of difference between them and the indigenous population of West Germany, which sometimes complicated the process of integration.
My analysis is based on a variety of texts written by and for Silesian Catholic expellees in the first two decades after the war.
Like the rest of the expellee population, in the early postwar years Silesian Catholics found themselves strewn widely across West Germany, mired in poverty, and generally alienated from the native population.
By defending the prewar boundaries and character of the archdiocese, Silesian Catholics sought to buttress the view that Silesia remained an indelible part of Germany.
In their defense of the prewar archdiocese, Silesian Catholic expellee leaders in West Germany and their allies in the German Catholic hierarchy challenged the canonical legitimacy of Hlond's administrative changes in Germany's lost eastern provinces.
A determined effort to present the twentieth-century history of Upper Silesia from the point of view of those Upper Silesians who consider themselves members of a separate (Silesian) nationality.
Czaja and Hupka, two Silesians who emigrated to West Germany from Soviet-occupied Poland.
All this adds up to a cosmopolitan existence in a city where only Catholicism unites Poles with German-speaking Silesians. As for the (often harrowing) experiences described in Dysharmonia caelestis, which include stories both from Nazi concentration camps and communist abuses, they are presented in a lively, colorful style with close attention to language.
A portrait of Silesian society of the recent past would have been enough to hold our interest, but Netz also introduces surrealistic dream sequences and the (symbolic?) vision of a dinosaur attack on the center of Katowice.

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