Province of Upper Silesia
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Upper Silesia (German: Oberschlesien; Polish: Górny Śląsk; Silesian: Górny Ślonsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. It was reunited with Lower Silesia as the Province of Silesia between 1938 and 1941. The capital of Upper Silesia was Oppeln (Opole). The province was further divided into two administrative regions (Regierungsbezirke), Kattowitz and Oppeln.
Upper Silesia now lies mainly in Poland (Opole and Silesian Voivodeships), with parts in the Czech Republic (the Český Těšín area).
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[edit] Administrative regions
[edit] Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz
[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise
- City of Beuthen
- City of Gleiwitz
- City of Hindenburg im Oberschlesien
- City of Kattowitz
- City of Königshütte
[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise
- Landkreis Bendsburg
- Landkreis Beuthen-Tarnowitz
- Landkreis Bielitz
- Landkreis Kattowitz
- Landkreis Krenau
- Landkreis Ilkenau
- Landkreis Pless
- Landkreis Rybnik
- Landkreis Saybusch
- Landkreis Teschen
- Landkreis Tost-Gleiwitz
[edit] Regierungsbezirk Oppeln
[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise
[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise
- Landkreis Blachstädt
- Landkreis Cosel
- Landkreis Falkenberg in Oberschleisen
- Landkreis Gross Strehlitz
- Landkreis Grottkau
- Landkreis Guttentag
- Landkreis Kreuzburg in Oberschlesien
- Landkreis Leobschütz
- Landkreis Lublinitz
- Landkreis Neisse
- Landkreis Neustadt in Oberschlesien
- Landkreis Oppeln
- Landkreis Ratibor
- Landkreis Rosenberg
- Landkreis Warthenau
[edit] See also
Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525 – 1947)
Before 1701: Prussia | Brandenburg | Farther Pomerania | Magdeburg | Halberstadt | Cleves | Mark | Ravensberg | Minden |
Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg | Arguin | Crab Island | Tertholen
After 1701: Neuchâtel | Hither Pomerania | East Frisia | Silesia (1740) | Glatz (1763) | Polish Prussia, Netze District (1772) |
South Prussia (1793) | New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–5: East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Prussia) | Brandenburg | Pomerania | Posen | Saxony | Silesia | Westphalia | Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) | Hohenzollern (1850, Hohenzollern-Hechingen & Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) | Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–8)
Later administrational reforms: Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) | Greater Berlin, West Prussia (district) (1920) | Posen-West Prussia (1922) |
Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Electoral Hesse, Nassau (1944)
