Czerwionka-Leszczyny in Upper Silesia was one of the areas Prussia took from Austria during the Silesian Wars, three wars fought in the mid-1700s. Which small town in Lower Silesia, sitting at the foot of a range called the Table Mountains, was taken by Prussia's King Frederick II during the very first war?

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Radków. Radkow (called Wunschelburg in German) sits below the Table Mountains in Lower Silesia. King Frederick II of Prussia took it from Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in 1742 during the First Silesian War. Czerwionka-Leszczyny in Upper Silesia was another area Prussia took from Austria during the Silesian Wars, and both stayed under Prussian control until 1945.