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  1. The Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (German: Hochstift Osnabrück; Fürstbistum Osnabrück, Bistum Osnabrück) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1225 until 1803.

  2. The Peace of Westphalia ( German: Westfälischer Friede, pronounced [vɛstˈfɛːlɪʃɐ ˈfʁiːdə] ⓘ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous ...

  3. The peace was solemnly sealed here with the so-called Osnabrück handshake. This treaty was signed together with the Peace of Münster, the Instrumentum Pacis Monasteriensis, concluded between the Emperor and France on 24 October 1648 in Münster. The Spanish-Dutch Partial Peace had already been concluded in Münster on 15 May 1648.

  4. Holy Roman Empire, the Peace meant a settlement to the political and territorial disputes that had begun with the German Reformation and an end to the conflicts sparked by the Bohemian conflict of 1618 and the Swedish invasion of June 1631. The excerpt from the Treaty of Osnabrück confirmed: the Empire’s character as aristocratic-

  5. The peace negotiations were held in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, which lie about 50 kilometers apart in the present-day German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Sweden had favored Münster and Osnabrück while the French had proposed Hamburg and Cologne.

  6. About this book. Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected.

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  8. Treaty of Osnabrück (24 October 1648), which ended the war between Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire (since 1630). [1] Contents. Proclamation of the treaty of Munster by Wenceslaus Hollar. The treaty consists of a main act and two annexes. [2] . The main act is the peace treaty itself. [2] .

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