Nine million people live within 100 km of Silesian Stadium in Chorzów.

The Silesian Stadium

* Silesian Stadium, the largest sports stadium in Poland

The most important gig of 2004 was at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, where the band opened for Metallica in front of 50, 000 people.

* Stadion Śląski ( Silesian Stadium ) in Chorzów ( football )-this stadium is designated by Polish Football Association as Poland national football team's official national stadium.

Silesian Stadium () is a sport stadium located between Chorzów and Katowice, Silesia, Poland.

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Chojnów () is a small town in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

Today, Lesser Poland is divided between several voivodeships, as seen on the map on the right – whole Lesser Poland Voivodeship, whole Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, western half of Lublin Voivodeship, western part of Subcarpathian Voivodeship, eastern half of Silesian Voivodeship, southern part of Mazovian Voivodeship and southeastern corner of Łódź Voivodeship ( around Opoczno ).

Currently, the region is divided between Polish voivodeships – Lesser Poland Voivodeship ( whole ), Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship ( whole ), Silesian Voivodeship ( eastern half ), Subcarpathian Voivodeship ( western part ), Masovian Voivodeship ( southern part ), Łódź Voivodeship ( southeastern corner ), and Lublin Voivodeship ( western part ).

In Silesian Voivodeship, the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland is easy to draw, because with few exceptions, it goes along boundaries of local counties.

Bielsko-Biała is a city made of two parts – Lesser Poland's Biala ( also called Biala Krakowska ), makes eastern half of the city, and only in 1951 it merged with Silesian Bielsko.

Politically it is bordered by Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship to the north, Subcarpathian Voivodeship to the east, and Slovakia to the south.

Opole Voivodeship is bordered by Lower Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Greater Poland and Łódź Voivodeships to the north, Silesian Voivodeship to the east, and the Czech Republic to the south.

# The Silesian language is spoken in the Upper Silesia region, mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship in Poland and also in the Moravian – Silesian Region in Czech Republic.

In the European subdivision, the Carboniferous is divided into two epochs: Dinantian ( early ) and Silesian ( late ).

The Silesian starts earlier than the Pennsylvanian and is divided in three ages:

Slovak (, slovenčina, not to be confused with slovenski jezik or slovenščina, the native name of the Slovene language ), is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages ( together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and

Silesia ( or ; ; ; Silesian German: Schläsing ; ; Silesian: Ślůnsk ; ) is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.

There is an ongoing debate whether a local Silesian speech should be considered a Polish dialect or a separate language.

There also exists a Silesian German or Lower Silesian language, although this form of German is almost extinct.

This interpretation is given official sanction in the use of the name Silesian Voivodeship ( województwo śląskie ) for the province covering this area.

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( in Polish, województwo śląskie ), is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ( Górny Śląsk ), with the capital in Katowice.

Contrary to the name, however, eastern half of Silesian Voivodeship is not historical Silesia, but Lesser Poland.

The current administrative unit of Silesian Voivodeship is just a fraction of the historical Silesia which is within the borders of today's Poland ( there are also fragments of Silesia in the Czech Republic and Germany ).

On the other hand, a large part of the current administrative unit of the Silesian Voivodeship is not part of historical Silesia ( e. g., Częstochowa, Zawiercie, Myszków, Jaworzno, Sosnowiec, Żywiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Będzin and east part of Bielsko-Biała, which are historically Lesser Poland ).

Breslau became the centre of German Baroque literature and was home to the First and Second Silesian school of poets.

The newly established Duchy of Silesia became the ancestral homeland of the Silesian Piasts, descendants of Bolesław's eldest son Władysław II the Exile, who nevertheless saw themselves barred from the succession to the Polish throne and only were able to regain their Silesian home territory with the aid of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Opava is home to the only public university in the country not situated in a regional capital, the Silesian University of Opava.

She invited numerous German religious people from the Holy Roman Empire into the Silesian lands, as well as German settlers who founded numerous cities, towns and villages in the course of the Ostsiedlung, while cultivating barren parts of Silesia for agriculture.

In 1773 King Frederick II of Prussia, having conquered and annexed Silesia in 1742, had St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin built for the Catholic Upper Silesian immigrants, now the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin.

Opole Province's geographic location, economic potential, and its population's level of education make it an attractive business partner for other Polish regions ( especially Lower Silesian and Silesian Voivodeships ) and for foreign investors.

The cession included the former Free City of Danzig and the seaport of Stettin on the mouth of the Oder River ( Szczecin Lagoon ), vital for the Upper Silesian Industrial Region.

Many Silesian residents not only resented the Germans for their invasion in 1939, but now also the newly formed Polish communist government for their population shifting and interference in agricultural, as well as industrial, affairs.

Henryk IV Probus ( Latin for the Righteous ) ( or Prawy ; ) ( c. 1258 – 23 June 1290 ) was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty.

In order to normalize the situation in February of the next year Henry IV organized a meeting in Sądowel, a village located in the Duchy of Wroclaw, for the purpose to find ways of mutual cooperation between the Silesian dukes.

Only the testament to the Church ( who wasn't count with the return of Kłodzko to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia as an excuse for mixing in the Silesian affairs ) was fully implemented.

Some sources say, that his father Giovanni Sarto ( in polish Jan Krawiec, in german Jan Krawietz ) was a Pole, who emigrated to today's Italy from Boguszyce-a village in the district of Toszek within Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland ; located exactly in Upper Silesia " for a better life ".

Another reason for the expedition was the fact that Svatopluk, who owed Bolesław III his throne, did not honor his accord in which he promised to return Silesian cities seized from Poland ( Raciborz, Kamieniec, Kozle among others ) by his predecessors.

Henry didn't wait for the promised aid from Western rulers and began to concentrate the surviving troops of Lesser Poland and his own Silesian and Greater Poland forcea in Legnica.

Upon his death, the line of the Silesian Piasts fragmented into numerous Dukes of Silesia, who ( except for Henry's grandson Henry IV Probus ) were no longer able to prevail as Polish High Dukes and subsequently came under the influence of the neighbouring Kingdom of Bohemia.

Gliwice is a major applied science hub for the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.

Tychy is the largest of the so-called " new towns " in Poland and was built from 1950 to 1985 to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of the Upper Silesian industrial region.

Hajduki ( German Heiduk ): the name etymology is ambiguous and is interpreted as either ( 1 ) related to the German word for moorland ( German: die Heide ), or ( 2 ) adopted from the German / Polish / Silesian term for hajduk ( s ) ( Polish ( plural ): Hajduki ; German ( singular ): Heiduck ), which locally meant bandits.

In 1742, the area was conquered by the Prussian Hohenzollerns in Silesian Wars, setting the stage for the Prussian industrial might.