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TESCHEN (Czech, Tesin; Polish, Cieszyn)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 664 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TESCHEN (Czech, Tesin; Polish, Cieszyn) , a town of Austria, in Silesia, 50 M. S.E. of Troppau by
rail
 . Pop. (1900) 19,142, of which over half is German, 43 per cent. Polish and the
remainder
  Czech. It is situated on the Olsa, a tributary of the Oder, and combines both Polish and German peculiarities in the style of its buildings. The only relic of the ancient castle is a square tower, dating from the 12th
century
 . There are several furniture factories and large saw-mills.
Teschen
  is an old town and was the
capital
  of the duchy of
Teschen
 . It was at Teschen that Maria
Theresa
  and Frederick II. signed, in May 1779, the Peace, which put an end to the war of Bavarian succession. The duchy of Teschen belonged to the dukes of Upper Silesia, and since 1298 it stood under the suzerainty of Bohemia. It became a direct apanage of the Bohemian crown in 1625 at the extinction of the male line of its dukes, and since 1766 it bore the name of Saxe-Teschen, owing to the fact that Prince Albert of Saxony, who married a daughter of Maria
Theresa
 , received it as
part
  of his wife's dowry. In 1822, it was bestowed on the Archduke Charles, the
victor
  of Aspern; it was inherited by his eldest son, and, at his death, in 1895 it passed into the hands of his nephew, the Archduke Frederick.


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