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| | Ending 30 Years of War: The Peace of Westphalia (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The end of the Thirty Years' War was in 1648; it was a war which rampaged in waves, like tornadoes, for 30 years, involving many European countries, including Germany, the Hapsburg Empire, France, Sweden, Bohemia, and Denmark. |
 | | After 30 years, there was enormous destruction--on average, 40% of the population and wealth, taken together, in Germany, were destroyed. |
 | | These negotiations lasted for four years, during 1644-48, and in the end, Protestants, Catholics, monarchies, and republican forms of government, were treated as having equal status in negotiations and in the treaty.... |
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