Silesian

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Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia.

Silesian may also refer to:

People and languages

• Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West Slavic (for example Ślężanie), or Germanic people (Schlesier or Silingi)
• Silesian language, West Slavic language/dialect
• Silesian German language, a German dialect

Political divisions

• Province of Silesia, 1815–1919 and 1938 to 1941, a province of Prussia within Germany
• Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939), an autonomous territorial unit of Poland (1920–1939)
• Silesian Voivodeship, a present-day division of Poland (see also Lower Silesian Voivodeship)
• Moravian-Silesian Region, a present-day division of Czech Republic

Other

• Silesian (series), a European subdivision of the Carboniferous period of the geological timescale
• Silesian horse

See also

• Silesia (disambiguation)
• Upper Silesian (disambiguation)
• Lower Silesian (disambiguation)
• Schlesinger
• Angelus Silesius, a baroque mystic from Silesia

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