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Silesians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Silesians ETHNONYMS: Schlesien (German...plundering and burning of many Silesian cities and towns. In 1526...rebuilding. The First and Second Silesian Wars (1740-1745) resulted...now a part of Poland. "Silesian," in today's literature...
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Silesia
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Ages the seemingly marginal Silesian territory demonstrated its...of the Czech state. Many Silesians wielded extraordinary political...took place in the policy of Silesian princes and estates in their...expression in nearly all of the Silesian principalities, and as a...
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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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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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Czech Republic
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...178,576) government: Multiparty republic ethnic groups: Czech 81%, Moravian 13%, Slovak 3%, Polish, German, Silesian, Gypsy, Hungarian, Ukrainian languages: Czech (official) religions: Christianity (Roman Catholic 39%, Protestant...
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Carboniferous
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Upper and Lower) and five series. A previous division of the system into a lower part, the Dinantian, and an upper, the Silesian, was based upon the succession in western Europe. These two divisions have not been retained in the global stratigraphic...
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Maria Theresa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...end of strengthening Austria so that one day in the not too distant future Silesia might be recovered, was turned over to a Silesian exile, Count Frederick William Haugwitz. The key to Haugwitz's reform program was centralization. Bohemia and Austria...
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Leipzig, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...He concentrated 122,000 men against the Bohemian army, and 50,000 under the command of marshal Michel Ney against the Silesian army (60,000 men, commanded by the Prussian general Gebhardt Bl ü cher), attacking from the north. The opposing...
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Slovakia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...some experts estimating as many as 500,000 Romany living in Slovakia. There are also small numbers of Czechs, Moravians, Silesians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, and Poles. Approximately 60 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, about 10 percent is...
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Otto Klemperer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...enabled him to overcome personal and historical challenges. Otto Klemperer was born on May 14, 1885, in what was then the Silesian city of Breslau during a period when the area was ruled by the Germans. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Poland...
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