In 1742, The Peace of Berlin between Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Prussia ended the first Silesian War.

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The text and melody of the final movement are drawn from a Silesian folk song, again from the perspective of a grieving mother.

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Other Silesian regionalists have been getting advice from Catalans and Basques.

ECONOMIST: Poland

Silesian, it added, is a mere dialect of Polish.

ECONOMIST: Poland

Rafine, who is now 12, is one of many previously trafficked young girls who are being looked after in a Catholic children's home run by Silesian Sisters in the country's biggest city, Cotonou.

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His mother is a one-time Silesian aristocrat who aspires to be regarded as an intellectual and an aesthete to help make up for the knowledge that she has come down in the world.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Silesian autonomy is still but a dream.

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Securing important ecclesiastical commissions in the medieval Upper Silesian towns of Oppeln and Neisse, Fey und Sohn were in urgent need of an assistant by 1936, when a twenty-four-year-old house painter named Lothar Malskat came asking for work.

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