Duchies of Silesia

Duchies of Silesia Slezská knížectví (Czech) Księstwa śląskie (Polish) Herzogtümer Schlesien (German)
1335–1742
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Duchies of Silesia within the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
Status	Crown land of the Bohemian Crown
Capital	Wrocław, Opole, Opava, various others
Common languages	Czech, Polish, German
Religion	Roman Catholicism Lutheranism Hussitism, later Bohemian Reformed (Utraquism, Brethren) Judaism (Jews)
Demonym(s)	Silesian
Government	Monarchy
King
• 1335–1378	Charles I (first)
• 1916–1918	Charles III (last)
History
• Joined Kingdom of Bohemia	1335
• Hungarian rule	1469–1490
• Dissolution of the Piast dynasty	1675
• Austrian Silesia formed	1742
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Silesia Austrian Silesia Prussian Silesia
Today part of	Czech Republic Poland Germany

The Duchies of Silesia were the more than twenty divisions of the region of Silesia formed between the 12th and 14th centuries by the breakup of the Duchy of Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1335, the duchies were ceded to the Kingdom of Bohemia under the Treaty of Trentschin. Thereafter until 1742, Silesia was one of the Bohemian crown lands and lay within the Holy Roman Empire. Most of Silesia was annexed by the King of Prussia under the Treaty of Berlin in 1742. Only the Duchy of Teschen, the Duchy of Troppau and the Duchy of Nysa remained under the control of the Bohemian crown and as such were known as the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia until 1918.