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Under what partition was Upper Silesia? Austrian or Prussian? This question seems to be a great test for candidates for history studies, and even at a later stage of a popular game show. From the perspective of a thousand years of Polish history, the fact that a Slavic dialect has survived in Upper Silesia can be considered a phenomenon. Because the Polish king and elites did not rule there in the 18th or even the 17th century. What's more, this region has nothing to do with the entire history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, because already in the times of the Piast dynasty it had its capital in Prague, not Wawel. The reckless loss of Silesia, one of the cradles of the Polish state, was probably the most unfortunate decision of Casimir the Great himself. In our search for Polish-Silesian history, we move to the interested parties themselves. We visit the Silesian Library and Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek. Why was Silesia really separated from the royal Piast tribe? When and why did some Silesians understand that they were closer to the forgotten Polish state than to the German Empire? Why did Silesia not become an autonomous state, but instead, against common sense, headed towards something as uncertain as an independent Poland. About this in the new six-part podcast series "History You Don't Know" In the first episode about the history of the region. How mines and factories were established and why for centuries Silesians were closer to the Czech than to Lech.