Stefania Bojda (born 1938, in Cieszyn) is a Polish artist and teacher.
She finished Liceum Pedagogiczne (pedagogical high school) in Cieszyn in 1965 and plastic arts at the University of Silesia in 1978. She worked as a teacher in Bielsko-Biała from 1965 to 1969 and later in Cieszyn.
She wrote and published, with her brother Józef Golec, Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej (vol. 1, 1993; vol. 2, 1995; vol. 3, 1998).
Czechization or Czechisation is a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Czech is made to become Czech.
Stożek Wielki is a mountain on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic, in the Silesian Beskids mountain range. It reaches a height of 978 meters.
Prof. Dr Hab. Karol Daniel Kadłubiec is a Polish ethnographer, folklorist and historian from the Zaolzie region of the Czech Republic. He specializes also in ethnology, history of language and dialectology, and in a studies of culture, folklore and language of Cieszyn Silesia and Zaolzie.
Władysław Młynek was a Polish teacher, writer and poet from Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Leopold Innocenty Nepomucen Polzer was a Polish lawyer.
Samuel Ludwik Zasadius or Zasadyus, Sassadius was a Polish religious writer, pastor and author of popular sermons and prayer-books. He was also known for propagating Polishness in Cieszyn Silesia.
Oskar Zawisza was a Polish Catholic priest, composer and educational activist.
Adam Christian Agricola was an evangelical preacher.
Bobrek is a district of Cieszyn, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was a separate municipality, but became administratively a part of Cieszyn in 1932. It had an area of around 767–768 ha.
Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski was a Polish historian.
Władysław Michejda was a Polish barrister and Mayor of Cieszyn from 1929 to 1937.
Muzeum Těšínska is a regional museum in Český Těšín, Czech Republic. It focuses on the history and traditions of the region of Cieszyn Silesia. The museum was founded in 1948 by teacher Ladislav Báča.
Teofil Adamecki was a Polish lawyer and activist.
Andrzej Kotula was a Polish lawyer and activist from Cieszyn Silesia.
Viola of Teschen, later known as Elizabeth, was Queen of Bohemia and Poland by marriage to Wenceslaus III of Bohemia.
Józef Chlebowczyk was a Polish historian.
Leon Miękina was a Polish teacher, writer and translator.
Ludwik Konarzewski – junior was a Polish painter, sculptor and teacher of fine arts who worked in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia. A square in Rydułtowy is named after him. Konarzewski owed his primary artistic education to his father, Ludwik Konarzewski – senior. He started his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1938, and finished in 1948, being interrupted by the Second World War. He studied under the direction of the following colourist painters: Wladyslaw Jarocki, Fryderyk Pautsch, Jerzy Fedkowicz, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Eugeniusz Eibisch and also, temporarily, Wojciech Weiss. He studied sculpture under Xawery Dunikowski and Stanisław Horno-Popławski. He created outdoor monuments such as the sculpture of Karol Miarka in Zabrze and Silesian Insurgents in Rydułtowy. Konarzewski worked as a teacher in Rydułtowy, near Wodzisław Śląski for 30 years. He was a director of the state owned Art Centre that he set up with his father. He had an influence on the artistic and esthetic tastes of the local community – just as his father had done in Istebna in the period between the two wars.
Knajka is a stream in the Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It is a left tributary of the Vistula, which it enters just south of Strumień. Its length is either 17 kilometres (11 mi) or 19 kilometres (12 mi). It flows through Ogrodzona, Kostkowice, Dębowiec, Knaj and Bąków. Numerous fish ponds are located alongside of it.
Kornel Filipowicz was a Polish novelist, poet and screenwriter, most notable for his short stories.