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.:: Województwo Dolnośląskie - ::. (4007 words) |
 | Despite that, the climate of Lower Silesia is mild, and the lowlands of the Province are the warmest area of Poland. |
 | Lower Silesia is characterized by a high percentage of people with college and university diplomas (7.1%), while approximately 55% of its inhabitants are secondary school graduates. |
 | Timber stock of the Lower Silesian forests ise forests her sectorsocessing an are protected areas er Silesia estimated at 110 million cubic metres and it is used as raw material by the timber industry and by timberprocessing plants in other sectors. |
| Lower Silesia: Information from Answers.com (744 words) |
 | Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny Śląsk; German: Niederschlesien; Latin: Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. |
 | Polish Lower Silesia, the bulk of the historical region, is administratively part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in western Poland, while a small region west of the Lusatian Neisse added to Silesia in 1815 is divided between Görlitz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in eastern Germany. |
 | In 1945 after World War II Lower Silesia east of the Lusatian Neisse was assigned to Poland by the conquest of the Soviet Union and its Allies and its German population was forcefully expelled. |