Treaties of the Dutch Republic - Military Alliances Involving the Dutch Republic, Treaties of the Dutch East India Company, Peace of Westphalia (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Military alliances involving the Dutch Republic, Treaties of the Dutch East India Company, Peace of Westphalia, Treaty of Breda, Triple Alliance, Treaty of Utrecht, Treaty of Elbing, Treaty of Axim, Treaty of Butre, Treaty of Antwerp, Treaties of Nijmegen, First League of Armed Neutrality, Treaty of Westminster, Treaty of Concordia, Treaty of Ryswick, Grand Alliance, Barrier Treaty, Treaty of Compiegne, Concert of The Hague, Treaty of Giyanti, Treaty of The Hague, Treaty of Nonsuch, Treaty of Batticaloa, Treaty of Fontainebleau, Treaty of Warsaw, Treaty of Bongaja, Kandyan Treaty of 1638, Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours, Treaty of London, Treaty of Raalte. Excerpt: The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October of 1648 in Osnabruck and Munster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The Peace of Westphalia treaties involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III of the House of Habsburg, the Kingdoms of Spain, France, Sweden, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the Free imperial cities and can be denoted by two major events. The treaties resulted from the first modern diplomatic congress, thereby initiating a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of a sovereign state governed by a sovereign. In the event, the treaties' regulations became integral to the constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire. The treaties did not restore the peace throughout Europe, however. France and Spain remained at war for the next eleven years, making peace only in the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659. Peace negotiations between France and the Habsburgs, provided by the Holy Roman ...