The company quickly prospered, making its first $1 million selling West German and Korean electronic products in the Silesian town of Walbrzych.

Besides Breslau, Namslau was the only Silesian town which refused to pay homage to Ladislaus the Posthumous in 1453.

Some Silesian towns, like Gliwice, Kluczbork, Niemcza or Otmuchów, became Hussite bases for several years and were a constant threat for the surrounding regions.

The Russian sources frequently quoted citing the city's 11th century founding were misinterpreted, referring instead to a Lower Silesian town, Głogów, with a very similar name.

Martin Staszko lives in the industrial southern Silesian town of Třinec, best known for Třinec Iron and Steel Works.

The opposite to the Upper Silesian industrial small towns represented the Lower Silesian spas in the Sudetes mountain range.

Two military engagements are known as the Battle of Liegnitz after the Silesian town of Liegnitz - Legnica, in south-western Poland:

Jewish community was small before the edict of 1780 granting Jews the right to settle in Silesian towns to the east of river Oder.

Because of the associated threats, some Silesian towns voluntarily paid war funds and contributions to Duke Henry.

Schütz was born on 17 April 1912 in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz.