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Silesia
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...late Middle Ages the seemingly marginal Silesian territory demonstrated its economic and...clear turn took place in the policy of Silesian princes and estates in their relations...found expression in nearly all of the Silesian principalities, and as a result the...
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War of the Austrian Succession
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...part of the province of Silesia . First Silesian War Frederick II began the war by invading...this conflict, often called the First Silesian War. Saxony also made peace and joined...French at Dettingen (1743). Second Silesian War In 1744 Frederick II, fearing the...
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Silesians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...in the plundering and burning of many Silesian cities and towns. In 1526, Silesia...of rebuilding. The First and Second Silesian Wars (1740-1745) resulted in the...Silesia, now a part of Poland. "Silesian," in today's literature, has come...
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Hauptmann, Gerhart
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...who in 1912 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . A Silesian by birth, he often used his native dialect to heighten the...Die Weber ( The Weavers , 1892), based on the revolt of the Silesian weavers in 1844, was unusual in having as its hero a group...
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Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...overshadows the personal—machines are replacing the handwork of the weavers—and the mass of exploited Silesian workers emerges as "hero, " taking on a character and identity of its own: a novelty in German drama. The workers' revolt...
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Joy Adamson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...preservationist Joy Adamson was born Friederike Victoria Gessner, in 1910, to a wealthy Austrian family; her birthplace in the Silesian region of Austria is now part of Slovakia. In her autobiography, The Searching Spirit, Adamson tells of a childhood game...
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Martin Opitz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Martin Opitz , 1597-1639, leader of the Silesian school of German poetry. His influence as poet, critic, and metrical reformer was widely recognized during his time; he was...
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Dresden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was the residence of the dukes, then the electors, and later the kings, of Saxony. Prussia occupied Dresden in the Second Silesian War (see Austrian Succession, War of the ), but withdrew after the Treaty of Dresden (1745). In the Seven Years War...
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Czech Republic
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia
...percent Czech, 13.2 percent Moravian, 3.1 percent Slovak, and less than 1 percent each of the Roma, Polish, German, Silesian, Hungarian, and other minorities. Since these estimates the size and proportion of ethnic groups has changed to some extent...
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Czech Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...13.2 percent are Moravian; and the remaining 4.5 percent belong to other groups, notably Slovak, Polish, German, Silesian, Romany (Gypsy), Hungarian, or Ukrainian. The majority of Czechs (39.2 percent) are Roman Catholic, with a smaller...
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