Peterski
05-21-2018, 07:32 AM
Modern Silesian Voivodeship is much larger than its pre-WW2 counterpart (green area in the map below).
Some eastern parts of pre-WW2 German Upper Silesia were added to it, but also some Non-Silesian neighbouring areas, including Częstochowa, Żywiec and Dąbrowa Coal Basin (including Sosnowiec), have been added to it. On other hand, part of Czech Silesia west of Cieszyn with mostly Polish population - so called Zaolzie - added to it in 1938, was later lost after WW2:
https://i.imgur.com/bmHNg4y.png
Western part of Upper Silesia, as well as eastern strip of Lower Silesia (area of Brzeg), now form Opole Voivodeship:
https://i1.wp.com/mapy.net.pl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/woj_slaskie-i-opolskie.jpg
https://d-pt.ppstatic.pl/k/r/10/b6/6f/4fc7a1051303c_p.jpg?1353387372
Thick pink line shows borders of Oppeln region, German Upper Silesia (it didn't include Brieg/Brzeg) in 1921-1939:
https://www.flaggenlexikon.de/schlesien.jpg
Some eastern parts of pre-WW2 German Upper Silesia were added to it, but also some Non-Silesian neighbouring areas, including Częstochowa, Żywiec and Dąbrowa Coal Basin (including Sosnowiec), have been added to it. On other hand, part of Czech Silesia west of Cieszyn with mostly Polish population - so called Zaolzie - added to it in 1938, was later lost after WW2:
https://i.imgur.com/bmHNg4y.png
Western part of Upper Silesia, as well as eastern strip of Lower Silesia (area of Brzeg), now form Opole Voivodeship:
https://i1.wp.com/mapy.net.pl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/woj_slaskie-i-opolskie.jpg
https://d-pt.ppstatic.pl/k/r/10/b6/6f/4fc7a1051303c_p.jpg?1353387372
Thick pink line shows borders of Oppeln region, German Upper Silesia (it didn't include Brieg/Brzeg) in 1921-1939:
https://www.flaggenlexikon.de/schlesien.jpg