Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia (Polish
Gorny Slask) is a region containing actual
Opole Voivodship and
Silesian Voivodship (partly also
Lesser Poland Voivodship and Northern
Moravia county of the
Czech Republic with its towns Ostrava,
Cieszy/Cesky Tesin, Karvina, Frydek-Mistek). Historically the capital of Upper Silesia was Opole, nowadays the most important is
Katowice, the capital of
Silesian Voivodship, while also the meaning of "Upper Silesia" is being shortened to
Silesian Voivodship. Major cities:
Katowice,
Chorzow,
Opole, Raciborz,
Rybnik,
Bytom,
Jastrzebie Zdroj, Mikolow,
Gliwice,
Zabrze, Myslowice,
Bielsko-Biala, Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Lubliniec,
Cieszyn,
Oswiecim.
