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The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ... The Thirty Years War was a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, social, economic, and commercial rivalries. ... At the end, the Treaty of Westphalia said that thus those who have lost their effects as aforesaid cannot recover them to the prejudice of their last Masters and Possesors… After the Thirty Years War Germany remained divided among local rulers and France emerged as the dominant great power in Europe. ...
In France, the Reformation had enkindled a civil war which, less than four reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign armies into the heart of the country, and for half a century rendered it the scene of the most mournful disorders. ... Religion alone could have rendered possible all that was accomplished, but it was far from being the sole motive of the war. ... The war as a whole may be considered a struggle of German Protestant princes and foreign powers against the unity and power of the Holy Roman Empire as represented by the Hapsburgs, allied with the Catholic princes, and against the Hapsburgs themselves.
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