New Silesia

New Silesia
New Silesia may also refer to the Barossa Valley in Australia.
Neuschlesien (de)
Nowy Śląsk (pl)
New Silesia
Province of Prussia
Duchy of Siewierz
 
Kraków Voivodeship
1795-1807 Duchy of Warsaw
Location of New Silesia
New Silesia among the Polish territories annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition (light blue)
Capital Siewierz (Sewerien)
History
 - 3nd Polish Partition 24 October 1795
 - Treaties of Tilsit 9 July 1807

New Silesia (German: Neuschlesien or Neu-Schlesien) was a small province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807, created after the Third Partition of Poland. It was located northwest of Kraków and southeast of Częstochowa, in the lands that had been part of the Silesian Duchy of Siewierz and the adjacent Polish historical province of Lesser Poland (the Kraków Voivodeship), including the towns of Żarki, Pilica, Będzin, and Sławków.

New Silesia had its capital at Siewierz. However, it was originally to be governed by the Silesian capital Breslau (Wrocław) and later largely administered by South Prussia. After the defeat of Prussia in the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806, the province was dissolved and the territory was made part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw in the Treaties of Tilsit of 1807.

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Coordinates: 50°28′N 19°13′E / 50.467°N 19.217°E / 50.467; 19.217


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