Austrian Silesia

Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia
*Herzogtum Ober- und Niederschlesien* (German)
*Vévodství Horní a Dolní Slezsko* (Czech)
*Księstwo Górnego i Dolnego Śląska* (Polish)
Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia Herzogtum Ober- und Niederschlesien (German); Vévodství Horní a Dolní Slezsko (Czech); Księstwo Górnego i Dolnego Śląska (Polish)
1742–1918
	Flag Coat of arms
	Austrian Silesia (shown in red) within Austria-Hungary until 1918
Status	Crown land of the Kingdom of Bohemia and: Habsburg monarchy (until 1804); Austrian Empire (1804–1867); Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary (from 1867);
Capital	Troppau (Opava)
Common languages	German; Polish; Czech;
Religion	Roman Catholicism; Lutheranism;
Government	Principality
History
• Division of Silesia	1742
• Part of Austrian Empire	1804
• Crown land of; Cisleithania	1867
• Disestablished	1918
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Duchies of Silesia
Province of Silesia
Czech Silesia
Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship
Today part of	Czech Republic; Poland;

Austrian Silesia, officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire, and from 1867 the Cisleithanian portion of Austria-Hungary). It is largely coterminous with the present-day region of Czech Silesia (with a smaller part in Poland) and was, historically, part of the larger Silesia region.

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