"Upper Silesia (Polish: G\u00F3rny \u015Al\u0105sk; Silesian: G\u016Frny \u015Al\u016Fnsk; Czech: Horn\u00ED Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: Oberschl\u00E4sing; Latin: Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of (chronologically) Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1526."@en . . . .