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Alright, time for some updates on her >BD. Again, if any of the Historical informations are false, please do tell me and I will change them. The uniform is based on the Wroclawian police uniforms, as there is no form of military strenght solely for Silesian purposes. Thank you

General Information:
Country Name: Lands of Silesia, Silesia
Human Name: Suzanna Kutz
Age: about 1100 (historical); 20-23 (appearance)
Heraldry Animal: Black Eagle
Flag: horizontally blue, yellow, blue (Upper Silesian flag which is usually used); blue, yellow, black (according to the sepperatistic Silesian Socialist Republic)
Voice: somewhat of a mixture between Aki Toyosaki and Shizuka Itō (when they're not beeing all cutsey, their voice ranges rather fit though)
Birthday: 9th April (date of the Battle of Legnica)
Causual Clothes: [link]

History:
Silesia's history goes all the way back to the beginning of the 9th Century when the lands first partially, then completely have been conquered by Great Moravia.
Later, at the end of said century, Silesia was mainly influenced by the Kingdom of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Around that time the people living there have been proselytised to Christianity and mainly civilised.
During the 12th Century more and more German settlements began to exist in order to bring the 'western' civilisation to the lands.
Due to the struggles of the Kingdom of Poland and it being scattered into small pieces after the Mongol Invasion in 1941 and the Battle of Legnica (1942) a sort of colonisation in Europe by the Germans took place and the Silesian Duchies were found. In this time there were a lot of struggles for the Polish crown and two of the main noble families of Silesia, aspired to take over the throne and unite all of Poland to it's prior grandness. As one of those families lost strenght, the remaining family, the Piasts, gained on power. Due to this line also slowly dying out, the Bohemian rulers took over the lands and proclaimed it as the Silesia Province. With this take-over the Silesian economy has been stabilised and brought to a peak.
After the death of Sigismund in 1437 caused the Bohemian crown to be disputed between Albert II of Habsburg and Władysław III of Poland. as Silesia was the borderland of those kingdoms it became a constant battlegrounds for power of both of those.
The 15th century was marked by external insecurities and the lost of some Silesian duchies.
In the 16th century, Silesia adapted the Protestand Christianity as their official religion.
Upper Silesia once again belonged to the Polish, after Sigismund III Vasa started negotiations with the Habsburgian crown. The intensified trade and a long period of peace together with tolerance for the local Protestants, gained the Polish monarchs much popularity in Upper Silesia.
In 1740, the annexation of Silesia by King Frederick II the Great of Prussia was welcomed by many Silesians, not only by Protestants or Germans. Frederick based his claims on the Treaty of Brieg and began the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). By war's end, the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost all of Silesia, while some parts of Silesia in the extreme southeast remained possessions of the Crown of Bohemia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) confirmed Prussian control over most of Silesia.
Silesia's industry was in bad condition in the first decades after 1815. Especially Silesian linen weavers suffered as Prussia's free trade policy and British competitors, which already used machines, led to the non-competitiveness of Silesian linen. The situation got worse after Russia imposed an import embargo and the Silesian linen industry began to mechanize their production. In several towns this traditional craft died out altogether, and many linen weavers lost their work. As the social conditions worsened the unrest culminated in the Silesian weavers uprising of 1844.
The upswing of Silesia's industry was closely connected to the railroad which was first introduced to the land in 1842.
As a Prussian province, Silesia became part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany in 1871, bringing considerable industrialization in Upper Silesia, and many people moved there at that time. The overwhelming majority of the population of Lower Silesia was German-speaking and most were Lutheran, including the capital of Breslau.
In the Treaty of Versailles after the defeat of Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, it was decided that the population of Upper Silesia should hold a plebiscite in order to determine the future of the province. After political struggles, the borders that last up to the end of WWII were established. The part of Silesia awarded to Poland was by far the best-developed and richest region of the newly formed state, producing most of Poland's industrial output.
The major part of Silesia, remaining in Germany, was reorganised into the two provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia.
With the invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany retook mostly Polish parts of Upper Silesia. During those times, Silesia was autonomical.

After WWII most parts of Upper and Lower Silesia belong to Poland. Two, smaller, parts are devided between Germany and the Czech Republic. As the eastern part of Poland as been taken by the Soviets, the people originally living there moved to Silesia in big numbers.
There is a remarkable trend in Silesian politics that demands an autonomic right for Silesia in Poland and the recognision of the Silesian culture. Some extremist parties want Silesia to be sepperated from Poland and it to become a state on its own.

(I shorteded the History a lot, so if you are interested in that matter, I would recommend you to research on your own, there are a lot of informations I did not include)

Origin:
There are a lot of discussions if Silesia is Germanic or Slavic, although the most reliable records say, that the first civilisation in Silesia was indeed Germanic.

Personality:
positive: creative mind, ambitious, passionate, courageous, action oriented, individual, vital, charismatic, playful, (weird) sense of humour
negative: impatient, boastful at times, arrogant, stubborn, indiscipined, confrontational, tendency to leave projects mid-way

when around a person she more than just likes: She feels herself strangely drawn to them and does not understand it all that much at first. She tends to either avoid them or shoo them off with a cold glare or insults as she doesn't know how to react to the feelings that overcome her.

Official Relationships:
Poland: Silesia has a difficult relationship to Poland. She has some sort of respect towards him but despises him at the same time, due to her doing most of the work for him, never getting credit. He is kind og that annoying, younger cousin that keeps on forcing you into things.

Czech Republic: He is sort of a father figure for Silesia. He taught her most things that she knows now and she basically enjoys his company whenever they meet. She's unusually quiet around him and helps him out whenever she can out of her free will. As much as she respects him though, she would not want to be part of him again, though.

Prussia: Her little-big brother of sorts. Although he is younger, he is making more sense than her and continued her education. She loves him in a very friendly way as far as to introducing him as her little brother. In a way, her character resembles his in certain parts.

Austria: Let's say it like this: Austria and Silesia... have a past that she would want to forget. She never liked him having power over him and rebelled in all the ways possible (ex. refusing to pay taxes, converting to Protestant Cristianity...)

Hungary: Silesia finds her nice enough to be polite but nothing more than that. Some chatter is normal but more personal themes are a no-go. Sili supports her relationship to Austria.

Sweden: Sweden... she is really and utterly afraid of him. As his troops practically ran over her land and only left devastation. Whenever she sees him she either ignores him or hides behind anyone available at that time.

Mongolia: Similar to her situation with Sweden, Silesia tends to avoid Mongolia at any costs, although she loses her fear of him slowly.

Germany/Holy Roman Empire: Just as Prussia, she loves him as a younger brother, loving to tease him for his calm mind. They are polar opposites of each other, temper wise, and she admires him for his calm, logical mindset. She tries to forget what he did during WWII but eventually brings it up in arguments.

Russia: She.. is not exactly scared of him but cannot feel at ease in his company either. She becomes very jumpy whenever he's around.

Great Britain: She considers him as her economical rival and has a lot of respect for him as a role model. It might be said that she has a crush on him.

RP-based Relationships:

Kurdistan: She considers her one of her closest friends as she can just simply talk to her without having to be careful what she can say and what she can't. She feels that they are in a similar situation, although in reality, it's not quite so. As Kurdistan is rather nostalgic about her traditions, she feel somewhat of a connection.

Spain: God, she adores his personality. As he's fun-loving and just caring she feels at ease whenever she gets to spend time with him. Sometimes though.. their humour gets in the way..

Sealand: Sealand is the adorable, much younger brother she always wished to have and simply enjoy. Although, if she isn't in the mood he can just be straight out annoying to her.

Switzerland: Another person she trusts and relies on, although she tries not to get any kind of emotions involved to make him feel comfortable to be around. She loves the time she spends with him and Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein: If affection could be displayed in a simple hug, Silesia would never go of her. She adores her innocence and openness to everything and wishes to be more like her.

Description
Alright, time for some updates on her >BD. Again, if any of the Historical informations are false, please do tell me and I will change them. The uniform is based on the Wroclawian police uniforms, as there is no form of military strenght solely for Silesian purposes. Thank you

General Information:
Country Name: Lands of Silesia, Silesia
Human Name: Suzanna Kutz
Age: about 1100 (historical); 20-23 (appearance)
Heraldry Animal: Black Eagle
Flag: horizontally blue, yellow, blue (Upper Silesian flag which is usually used); blue, yellow, black (according to the sepperatistic Silesian Socialist Republic)
Voice: somewhat of a mixture between Aki Toyosaki and Shizuka Itō (when they're not beeing all cutsey, their voice ranges rather fit though)
Birthday: 9th April (date of the Battle of Legnica)
Causual Clothes: [link]

History:
Silesia's history goes all the way back to the beginning of the 9th Century when the lands first partially, then completely have been conquered by Great Moravia.
Later, at the end of said century, Silesia was mainly influenced by the Kingdom of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Around that time the people living there have been proselytised to Christianity and mainly civilised.
During the 12th Century more and more German settlements began to exist in order to bring the 'western' civilisation to the lands.
Due to the struggles of the Kingdom of Poland and it being scattered into small pieces after the Mongol Invasion in 1941 and the Battle of Legnica (1942) a sort of colonisation in Europe by the Germans took place and the Silesian Duchies were found. In this time there were a lot of struggles for the Polish crown and two of the main noble families of Silesia, aspired to take over the throne and unite all of Poland to it's prior grandness. As one of those families lost strenght, the remaining family, the Piasts, gained on power. Due to this line also slowly dying out, the Bohemian rulers took over the lands and proclaimed it as the Silesia Province. With this take-over the Silesian economy has been stabilised and brought to a peak.
After the death of Sigismund in 1437 caused the Bohemian crown to be disputed between Albert II of Habsburg and Władysław III of Poland. as Silesia was the borderland of those kingdoms it became a constant battlegrounds for power of both of those.
The 15th century was marked by external insecurities and the lost of some Silesian duchies.
In the 16th century, Silesia adapted the Protestand Christianity as their official religion.
Upper Silesia once again belonged to the Polish, after Sigismund III Vasa started negotiations with the Habsburgian crown. The intensified trade and a long period of peace together with tolerance for the local Protestants, gained the Polish monarchs much popularity in Upper Silesia.
In 1740, the annexation of Silesia by King Frederick II the Great of Prussia was welcomed by many Silesians, not only by Protestants or Germans. Frederick based his claims on the Treaty of Brieg and began the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). By war's end, the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost all of Silesia, while some parts of Silesia in the extreme southeast remained possessions of the Crown of Bohemia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) confirmed Prussian control over most of Silesia.
Silesia's industry was in bad condition in the first decades after 1815. Especially Silesian linen weavers suffered as Prussia's free trade policy and British competitors, which already used machines, led to the non-competitiveness of Silesian linen. The situation got worse after Russia imposed an import embargo and the Silesian linen industry began to mechanize their production. In several towns this traditional craft died out altogether, and many linen weavers lost their work. As the social conditions worsened the unrest culminated in the Silesian weavers uprising of 1844.
The upswing of Silesia's industry was closely connected to the railroad which was first introduced to the land in 1842.
As a Prussian province, Silesia became part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany in 1871, bringing considerable industrialization in Upper Silesia, and many people moved there at that time. The overwhelming majority of the population of Lower Silesia was German-speaking and most were Lutheran, including the capital of Breslau.
In the Treaty of Versailles after the defeat of Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, it was decided that the population of Upper Silesia should hold a plebiscite in order to determine the future of the province. After political struggles, the borders that last up to the end of WWII were established. The part of Silesia awarded to Poland was by far the best-developed and richest region of the newly formed state, producing most of Poland's industrial output.
The major part of Silesia, remaining in Germany, was reorganised into the two provinces of Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia.
With the invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany retook mostly Polish parts of Upper Silesia. During those times, Silesia was autonomical.

After WWII most parts of Upper and Lower Silesia belong to Poland. Two, smaller, parts are devided between Germany and the Czech Republic. As the eastern part of Poland as been taken by the Soviets, the people originally living there moved to Silesia in big numbers.
There is a remarkable trend in Silesian politics that demands an autonomic right for Silesia in Poland and the recognision of the Silesian culture. Some extremist parties want Silesia to be sepperated from Poland and it to become a state on its own.

(I shorteded the History a lot, so if you are interested in that matter, I would recommend you to research on your own, there are a lot of informations I did not include)

Origin:
There are a lot of discussions if Silesia is Germanic or Slavic, although the most reliable records say, that the first civilisation in Silesia was indeed Germanic.

Personality:
positive: creative mind, ambitious, passionate, courageous, action oriented, individual, vital, charismatic, playful, (weird) sense of humour
negative: impatient, boastful at times, arrogant, stubborn, indiscipined, confrontational, tendency to leave projects mid-way

when around a person she more than just likes: She feels herself strangely drawn to them and does not understand it all that much at first. She tends to either avoid them or shoo them off with a cold glare or insults as she doesn't know how to react to the feelings that overcome her.

Official Relationships:
Poland: Silesia has a difficult relationship to Poland. She has some sort of respect towards him but despises him at the same time, due to her doing most of the work for him, never getting credit. He is kind og that annoying, younger cousin that keeps on forcing you into things.

Czech Republic: He is sort of a father figure for Silesia. He taught her most things that she knows now and she basically enjoys his company whenever they meet. She's unusually quiet around him and helps him out whenever she can out of her free will. As much as she respects him though, she would not want to be part of him again, though.

Prussia: Her little-big brother of sorts. Although he is younger, he is making more sense than her and continued her education. She loves him in a very friendly way as far as to introducing him as her little brother. In a way, her character resembles his in certain parts.

Austria: Let's say it like this: Austria and Silesia... have a past that she would want to forget. She never liked him having power over him and rebelled in all the ways possible (ex. refusing to pay taxes, converting to Protestant Cristianity...)

Hungary: Silesia finds her nice enough to be polite but nothing more than that. Some chatter is normal but more personal themes are a no-go. Sili supports her relationship to Austria.

Sweden: Sweden... she is really and utterly afraid of him. As his troops practically ran over her land and only left devastation. Whenever she sees him she either ignores him or hides behind anyone available at that time.

Mongolia: Similar to her situation with Sweden, Silesia tends to avoid Mongolia at any costs, although she loses her fear of him slowly.

Germany/Holy Roman Empire: Just as Prussia, she loves him as a younger brother, loving to tease him for his calm mind. They are polar opposites of each other, temper wise, and she admires him for his calm, logical mindset. She tries to forget what he did during WWII but eventually brings it up in arguments.

Russia: She.. is not exactly scared of him but cannot feel at ease in his company either. She becomes very jumpy whenever he's around.

Great Britain: She considers him as her economical rival and has a lot of respect for him as a role model. It might be said that she has a crush on him.

RP-based Relationships:

Kurdistan: She considers her one of her closest friends as she can just simply talk to her without having to be careful what she can say and what she can't. She feels that they are in a similar situation, although in reality, it's not quite so. As Kurdistan is rather nostalgic about her traditions, she feel somewhat of a connection.

Spain: God, she adores his personality. As he's fun-loving and just caring she feels at ease whenever she gets to spend time with him. Sometimes though.. their humour gets in the way..

Sealand: Sealand is the adorable, much younger brother she always wished to have and simply enjoy. Although, if she isn't in the mood he can just be straight out annoying to her.

Switzerland: Another person she trusts and relies on, although she tries not to get any kind of emotions involved to make him feel comfortable to be around. She loves the time she spends with him and Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein: If affection could be displayed in a simple hug, Silesia would never go of her. She adores her innocence and openness to everything and wishes to be more like her.