Trans-Olza region

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The Trans-Olza region is a historically contested border area between Poland and (former) Czechoslovakia, notable for its mixed Polish-Czech population and strategic location in Cieszyn Silesia.

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Trans-Olza region canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf border region
historical region
annexedBy Czechoslovakia in 1919
Nazi Germany during World War II
Poland in 1938
borderDisputeInvolved Poland–Czechoslovakia border dispute
borderedBy Olza River on the Polish side
Poland
borderFormedBy Spa Conference decision of 1920
claimedBy First Czechoslovak Republic
Second Polish Republic
containsCity Karviná
Český Těšín
containsTown Bohumín
Orlová
Třinec
crossedBy Olza River
currentSovereignState Czech Republic
disputeIntensifiedAfter World War I
disputeRelatedTo dissolution of Austria-Hungary
hasAlternativeName Zaolzie
Zaolží
hasCulturalOrganization Polish Cultural and Educational Union in the Czech Republic
hasEthnicGroup Czechs
Poles
Silesians
hasSignificantMinority Polish minority in the Czech Republic
historicalEvent division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920
historicallyContestedBetween Czechoslovakia
Poland
knownFor coal mining industry
heavy industry
mixed Polish–Czech population
railway junctions of strategic importance
languageUsed Cieszyn Silesian dialects
Czech
Polish
locatedIn Central Europe
Cieszyn Silesia
Czech Republic
nameDerivedFrom Olza River
partOf Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic
historical region of Silesia
religionPracticed Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
returnedTo Czechoslovakia after World War II
strategicImportanceDueTo Košice–Bohumín Railway
industrial resources of Cieszyn Silesia

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Polish–Czechoslovak War relatedTo Trans-Olza region
Zaolzie partOf Trans-Olza region