Reduction Bijouterie

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The Sudetenland ( soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is a German term used by Nazi propaganda to address areas of the former Czechoslovakia with a majority of German speaking population. The reason behind the invention of this term was to ideologically establish a specific territory in order to set grounds for subsequent secession claims, as the area in question consisted of different regions which had always been an integral part of historical Bohemia - in particular its northern, southern, and western border areas. Therefore, the Sudetenland is an ideological term rather than a geographical one, as no such territory existed as a unit of any sort prior to 1938. Similarly, the term Sudeten Germans was established in order to create a standalone ethnical identity for German speaking nationals of Czechoslovakia, most of whom had lived in the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia since the Middle Ages. The word Sudetenland is a German compound of Sudeten, the name of the Sudeten Mountains, which run along the northern Czech border and Lower Silesia (now in Poland), and Land, meaning "country". The border areas inhabitated by the German speaking population encompassed territory well beyond those mountains, however. The word "Sudetenland" did not come into being until the early part of the 20th century and did not come to prominence until almost two decades into the century, after World War I, when Austria-Hungary disintegrated and the Sudeten Germans found themselves living in the new country of Czechoslovakia. The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the Pan-Germanist demands of Nazi Germany that the Sudetenland be annexed to them, which happened after the later Munich Agreement. Part of the borderland was invaded and annexed by Poland. Afterwards, the formerly unrecognized Sudetenland became an administrative division of Germany. When Czechoslovakia was reconstituted after World War II, the Sudeten Germans were expelled and the region today is inhabited almost exclusively by Czech speakers.

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Article title : Sudetenland
"industry, paper-making and toy-making industry). Sixty percent of the bijouterie and glassmaking industry were located in the Sudetenland, and 69% of employees..."
Article title : Augustus Clifford
"unique collection of paintings, sculpture, etchings, engravings, and bijouterie. He died at his residence in the House of Lords in 1877. Clifford entered..."

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