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Article: Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618
–
1648)
THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618
–
1648).
The Thirty Years' War was one of the greatest and longest armed contests of the early modern period. Some historians have argued that it was a series of separate wars that happened to overlap in time and space rather than one coherent sequence of military campaigns in which a clearly defined set of issues was at stake throughout. If one looks at the Thirty Years' War in a European context, there is some truth in this argument. However, in central Europe, in particular in the Holy Roman Empire, the military and political events of the thirty years between the defenestration of Prague in May 1618 and the signing ...