divided between the Ratibor district and the Tost-Gleiwitz district. According to the Prussian census of 1855, Kreis Rybnik had a population of 58,411, of which...

Silesia. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Gleiwitz was administered in the Prussian district of Tost-Gleiwitz within the Province of Silesia in 1816. The...

city of Oppeln. Other important cities in the region included Kattowitz, Gleiwitz, Beuthen, Königshütte, Hindenburg, Ratibor, Neustadt, Neisse and Kreuzburg...