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Upper Silesia

noun

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


Upper Silesia

noun

  1. a region of SW Poland, formerly ruled by Germany: coal mining and other heavy industry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The whole proposal was contingent on the retention of Upper Silesia and the removal of all impediments to German trade.

The province of Upper Silesia was asked for on grounds which the Poles, at any rate, thought convincing.

It is the most extensive foundry in Upper Silesia, and was only erected in 1839.

The argument in the text assumes that Upper Silesia will cease to be German.

The workshop of the great rail-forge of Knigshtte in Upper Silesia is full of heat and steam.

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