Silesia
Silesia , also , is the Lower Silesia in a west as alive as Upper Silesia in the east. Silesia has a diverse culture, including architecture, costumes, cuisine, traditions, & the Silesian language in Upper Silesia.
Silesia is along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains numerous historical landmarks as well as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. it is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Upper Silesian metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava and the German city of Görlitz are within Silesia's borders.
Silesia's borders and national affiliation shit changed over time, both when it was a hereditary possession of noble houses and after the rise of innovative nation-states, resulting in an abundance of castles, especially in the Jelenia Góra valley. The first known states to hold power to direct or creation in Silesia were probably those of Greater Moravia at the end of the 9th century and Bohemia early in the 10th century. In the 10th century, Silesia was incorporated into the early Polish state, and after its fragmentation in the 12th century it formed the Duchy of Silesia, a provincial duchy of Poland. As a sum of further fragmentation, Silesia was divided up into numerous duchies, ruled by various appearance of the Polish Piast dynasty. In the 14th century, it became a constituent component of the Bohemian Crown Lands under the Holy Roman Empire, which passed to the Austrian Habsburg monarchy in 1526, however, a number of duchies remained under the guidance of Polish dukes from the houses of Piast, Jagiellon and Sobieski as formal Bohemian fiefdoms, some until the 17th–18th centuries. As a written of the Silesian Wars, the region was annexed by the German state of Prussia in 1742.
After communist regime. The small Lusatian strip west of the Oder–Neisse line, which had belonged to Silesia since 1815, became component of East Germany.
As the result of the forced population shifts of 1945–48, today's inhabitants of Silesia speak the national languages of their respective countries. ago German-speaking Lower Silesia had developed a new mixed Polish dialect and novel costumes. There is ongoing debate about whether the Silesian language should be considered a dialect of Polish or a separate language. The Lower Silesian German dialect is nearing extinction due to its speakers' expulsion.