• the Silesian-born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi?
• the Ślężanie were a tribe of West Slavs of the Polish group, inhabiting territories of Silesia, which is named after them, near Ślęża mountain and river, up to the area of modern city of Wrocław?
• the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD, USPD and the Austrian SDAP?
• a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?
• Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland?
• Silesian socialist politician Józef Biniszkiewicz died at Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II?
• Bolko II of Świdnica was the last independent duke of the Piast dynasty in Silesia?
• counter-reformation in Silesia was stopped by the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1707?

Facts on topics related to Silesia

Province of Silesia

• the wine industry in the Barossa Valley (pictured) was founded by German immigrants fleeing persecution from the Prussian province of Silesia?

Silesian Uprisings

• Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland?
• the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the Silesian Uprisings?
• the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany?