Silesian American

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Silesian Americans

Total population
339[1]
Regions with significant populations
Texas
Languages
American English, Silesian, Polish, German, Czech
Religion
Christianity

Silesian Americans are Americans of Silesian descent. Most Silesian-Americans reside in Texas.

Notable Silesian-Americans

See also

Texas Silesian

References

  1. ↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-04. 
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
(Scandinavians)
Southeast Europe3
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Other Europeans

1   Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I.

2   Russia is a transcontinental country in eastern Europe and northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

3   Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia.
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