Opolszczyzna w badaniach łódzkiego ośrodka geograficznego

Establishing the Łódź geographic centre preceded the emergence of a similar institution in Opole for over a decade. Although Opole Silesia was a natural research area for the Wrocław centre, it was thanks to the founder of the Łódź school of socio-economic geography, prof. Ludwik Straszewicz, that the Łódź geographic centre started the research in Opole Silesia in the 1960s, which resulted in numerous publications. Research actively in this field was continued by prof. Straszewicz’ students, mostly by S. Liszewski. The Łódź geographic centre also attracted geographers from Opole: some came to Łódź for postgraduate studies, some – like prof. K. Heffner – continued their academic work at the University of Łódź. It resulted in subsequent geographic studies of Opole Silesia, as well as the collaboration between geographers from Łódź and Opole. The majority of the publications belong to the discipline of socio-economic geography, while those devoted to Opole Silesia that deal with the region’s physical geography were incidental. The paper examines and analyses the publishing and organisational results of the Łódź geographers interested in the territory of Opole Silesia.