The New International Encyclopædia/Teschen

TESCHEN, tĕsh′en (Pol. Cieszyn). A town of Silesia, Austria, 63 miles west-southwest of Cracow, on the right bank of the Olsa (Map: Austria, F 2). It was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Teschen. It has manufactures of modules, carriages, clocks, screws, and furniture. There are also breweries, distilleries, flax-spinning mills, and book-binderies. Teschen is celebrated for the peace, May 13, 1799, which closed the War of the Bavarian Succession. Population, in 1900, 20,454.