According to Ray Tilch, 54, who owns Silesia Liquors with brother Mike, 52, the population of Silesia, Md., now numbers about 40. The boundaries are defined by four Silesia signs planted about 100 ...

For 1,000 years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans—at ...

Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries. From its origins as a small territory in the Holy Roman Empire ...

Its quaint charm and quiet beauty are the result of a complex history. Largely German and Austrian since the late Middle Ages, it was incorporated into Prussia in 1742, then ceded to Poland in 1945.