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Map Description
Historical Map of Germany
Showing the Territorial Provisions of the Peace of Westphalia 1648.
Explanation
- Ceded to Brandenburg
Eastern Pomerania, Magdeburg, Halberstadt, Minden.
- Ceded to Elector of Saxony
Lusatia.
- Ceded to France
Metz, Toul, Verdun (already French, now formally ceded), Alsace, so
far as belonging to Austria, Breisach, Philipsburg.
- Ceded to Sweden
Western Pomerania, I. of Rügen, Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden,
town of Wismar.
- Ceded to Brunswick
Bishopric of Osnabrück.
- Ceded to Bavaria
Upper Palatinate.
- Ceded to Mecklenburg
Schwerin, Ratzeburg.
- Acknowledged as independent
United Netherlands, Switzerland.
Credits
University of Texas at Austin. From
The Public Schools Historical Atlas edited by C. Colbeck, 1905.
Related Links
About the Thirty Years' War
About the Peace of Westphalia
The Battles of the Thirty Years' War
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