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Peace of Westphalia   /pis əv wˈɛstfˌeɪliə/   Listen
Peace of Westphalia

noun
1.
The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648.





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"Peace of westphalia" Quotes from Famous Books



... bankruptcy in spite of the wealth which it had been drawing from across the sea. But even when Spain had to surrender the hope of winning back the lost provinces, which now became a small but important European power, she refused formally to acknowledge their independence until 1648[315] (Peace of Westphalia). ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... the truce, Spain renewed her efforts to conquer Holland; but, after a war of twenty-seven years, the independence of the country was acknowledged in the peace of Westphalia. During this period the Dutch maintained their supremacy on the sea, attacking the Spanish possessions in all parts of the world, and especially in the East Indies, where they commenced the foundation of their empire in that ...
— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic


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