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  • The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty of ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...
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  • Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... the local high society and present petitions of the Jews to the ruler. ...
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  • 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...
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  • |name=Saint Lawrence of Brindisi |birth_date=July 22, 1559 ... Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559 – July 22, 1619), born Giulio ...
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  • 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from May ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...
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  • Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England ... princess, Henrietta Maria, over the objections of Parliament and public opinion ...
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  • third edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to the protagonist ... punished for his pains. He usurped the role of the gods. Shelley's novel ...
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  • Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria ... the newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern ...
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  • German and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...
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  • known for their plain dress and avoidance of modern conveniences such as ... divided into separate fellowships consisting of geographical districts or congregations ...
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  • The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...
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  • The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...
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  • The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s ...
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  • The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over nearly ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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