Upper Silesia

American  

noun

1. a highly industrialized region divided between Germany and Poland after World War I.

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Upper Silesia British  

noun

1. a region of SW Poland, formerly ruled by Germany: coal mining and other heavy industry

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Example Sentences

In Upper Silesia, Poland’s coal basin, bright yellow buses display signs that boast they run on 100 percent electric, courtesy of a grant from the European Union.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

“I’m always against weapons,” said Kramer, who as a 1-year-old in Upper Silesia, now part of Poland, was among those fleeing an invading Russian army.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2022

In the mid-1800s, he began a government-commissioned investigation into outbreaks of typhus in Upper Silesia, a coal-rich region in what is now Poland.

From Scientific American • May 13, 2021

The outbreak of World War II found Wodehouse in France, and he was interned by the Germans in Upper Silesia.

From Time • Nov. 23, 2011

The girls’ work was soon expanded to include the Danzig area in West Prussia and Upper Silesia.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti