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Definition of Peace of Westphalia

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

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Literary usage of Peace of Westphalia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"^AT On November 20, 1648, Innocent X published the memorable BuD Zelo domus Dei, in which he declared the Peace of Westphalia to be 11 null alld ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"His chief object was the aggrandizement of Brandenburg to the eastward of the Elbe, but in the Peace of Westphalia he had been compensated by new ..."

3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE Peace of Westphalia (1643-1648 AD) Plenipotentiaries from the belligerent powers had, since 1643, been assembled at Osnabrück and Münster in Westphalia, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"This was especially the case under the mild Archbishop Paris Hadrian (1619-53), and after the peace of Westphalia Protestants sentenced to exile from Roman ..."

5. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1907)
"CHAPTER XX THE Peace of Westphalia : LAST STAGE IN THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE THE Peace of Westphalia is the first, and, with the CHAP. xx. possible ..."

6. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"CHAPTER XX THE Peace of Westphalia : LAST STAGE IN THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE THE Peace of Westphalia is the first, and, with the CHAP. xx. possible ..."

7. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"CHAPTER XX THE Peace of Westphalia : LAST STAGE IN THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE THE Peace of Westphalia is the first, and, with the CHAP. xx. possible ..."

8. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1902)
"THE Peace of Westphalia: LAST STAGE IN THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE. THE Peace of Westphalia is the first, and, with the exception perhaps of the Treaties of ..."

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