the Peace of Westphalia

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• Peace of Westphalia — Treaties of Osnabrück and Münster Ratification of the Peace of Münster (Gerard ter Borch, Münster, 1648) Type Peace treaty …   Wikipedia

• Peace of Westphalia — noun the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648 • Instance Hypernyms: ↑peace, ↑peace treaty, ↑pacification …   Useful english dictionary

• WESTPHALIA, THE PEACE OF —    the treaty ending the Thirty Years War in 1648 which marked the beginning of European domination of the world and the birth of the modern world system which held sway until the independence of India in 1948 …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• The Thirty Years War —     The Thirty Years War     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Thirty Years War     The Thirty Years War (1618 48), though pre eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe, not only because nearly all… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Peace of Augsburg — The Peace of Augsburg was a treaty between Ferdinand I, who replaced his brother Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, on September 25, 1555, at the city of Augsburg in… …   Wikipedia

• The Reformation —     The Reformation     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Reformation     The usual term for the religious movement which made its appearance in Western Europe in the sixteenth century, and which, while ostensibly aiming at an internal renewal of the …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Peace of Münster — The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the United Netherlands and Spain signed in 1648. It was a landmark treaty for the Dutch republic and one of the key events in Dutch history; with it, the United Netherlands finally became independent from …   Wikipedia

• The General Crisis — is the term used by some historians to describe the period of widespread conflict and instability that occurred from the early 17th century to the early 18th century in Europe and in more recent historiography in the world at large. Contents 1… …   Wikipedia

• Westphalia, Peace of — (1648) European settlements that ended the Thirty Years War, negotiated in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The deliberations began in 1644 and ended in 1648 with two assemblies that produced the treaty between Spain and the Dutch… …   Universalium

• Westphalia — [ Green : Kingdom of Westphalia (1807 1813) Red : Province of Westphalia (1815 1946) Dark grey : North Rhine Westphalia (1946 )] Westphalia ( de. Westfalen IPA| [vɛstˈfaːlən] ) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum,… …   Wikipedia

• Westphalia — Westphalian, adj., n. /west fay lee euh, fayl yeuh/, n. a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years War 1648. German, Westfalen. * * * Former province of Prussia, now part of Germany. It… …   Universalium