New Silesia
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- New Silesia may also refer to the Barossa Valley in Australia.
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.
New Silesia was originally to be governed by the Silesian capital Breslau (Wrocław), but was 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 Duchy of Warsaw in the Treaties of Tilsit of 1807.
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- Neu-Schlesien at Genealogy.net (German)
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