Cieszyn Silesia Foodways

Śląsk Cieszyński / Těšínsko

Historical period

One duchy cut in half in 1920 along the Olza: Cieszyn in Poland, Český Těšín in Czechia, one town with two names and two states. Habsburg until 1918, Lutheran in large part unlike Catholic Upper Silesia, with Goral highland foodways in the Beskids above it — sheep cheese, mutton, cabbage — and a shared dialect across the river.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

Languages: Polish, Czech

What is recorded

Cieszyn Silesia is a single historical duchy divided in 1920 between Poland and Czechoslovakia along the Olza. It is modelled as one cross-border cultural region with two modern halves, not as a Polish region with a Czech appendix or the reverse. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

part of Historical Silesia documented
One duchy divided in 1920; both halves belong to the same historical region.
related to Czech Silesian Foodways documented

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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