Cieszyn Silesia

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borderland region historical region

Cieszyn Silesia is a historical and ethnically diverse borderland region centered around the city of Cieszyn, spanning areas of present-day Poland and the Czech Republic.

Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form As subject As object
Cieszyn Silesians 0 1
Cieszyn folk costume 0 1
Cieszyn–Český Těšín urban area 0 1
Teschen 0 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf borderland region →
historical region →
borderDisputeBetween Czechoslovakia →
Poland →
country Czech Republic →
Poland →
crossedBy Poland–Czech Republic border →
divisionArbitratedBy Conference of Ambassadors →
ethnicallyDiverse true →
formerPoliticalEntity Duchy of Teschen →
hasCapital Cieszyn →
hasCulturalFeature Cieszyn Silesia self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Cieszyn folk costume

Cieszyn lace →
regional wooden architecture →
hasEconomicActivity coal mining →
steel industry →
tourism →
hasEthnicGroup Czechs →
Germans →
Jews →
Poles →
Silesians →
Slovaks →
hasHistoricalEvent Polish–Czechoslovak War →
Zaolzie annexation of 1938 →
hasMajorCity Cieszyn →
Jastrzębie-Zdrój →
Karviná →
Třinec →
Český Těšín →
hasMajorRiver Olza River →
Vistula River →
hasMinority Czech minority in Poland →
Polish minority in the Czech Republic →
hasMountainRange Silesian Beskids →
hasTraditionalDialect Cieszyn Silesian dialect →
hasTraditionalReligion Lutheranism →
Roman Catholicism →
hasTwinTownStructure Cieszyn Silesia self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Cieszyn–Český Těšín urban area
historicalCenter Duchy of Teschen →
historicallyRuledBy Austrian Silesia →
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy →
surface form: Habsburg Monarchy

Piast dynasty →
locatedIn Central Europe →
partOf Silesia →
Upper Silesia →
wasDividedInYear 1920 →
wasPartOf Austro-Hungarian Empire →
Bohemia →
surface form: Kingdom of Bohemia

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Teschen
Cieszyn Silesia → hasCulturalFeature → Cieszyn Silesia self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Cieszyn folk costume
Silesian language → hasEthnicGroup → Cieszyn Silesia →
this entity surface form: Cieszyn Silesians
Silesia → hasPart → Cieszyn Silesia →
subject surface form: Silesia
Cieszyn Silesia → hasTwinTownStructure → Cieszyn Silesia self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Cieszyn–Český Těšín urban area
Lachians → traditionalRegion → Cieszyn Silesia →