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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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... of the Lutheran or reformed Protestants were equalized with those of Catholics; henceforth the consent of a free assembly of all the Estates of the empire was necessary to make laws, raise soldiers, impose taxes, and decide peace or war. The peace of Westphalia put an end at one and the same time to the Thirty Years' War and to the supremacy of the house of ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot


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