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Westphalia

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(wĕstfāl'yӘ), Ger. Westfalen , region and former province of Prussia, W Germany. Münster was the capital of the province. After 1945 the province was incorporated into the West German state of North Rhine–Westphalia, now a state in reunified Germany. The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, a triangle formed by a line drawn eastward from the Rhine River at the Dutch border to the Weser River at Minden, a line drawn from Minden southwestward to Siegen (near the border with Hesse), and a line drawn to the northwest from Siegen and parallel to the Rhine. The region is drained by the Ems, Weser, Ruhr, and Lippe rivers; it is hilly in the east and south and forms a low plain in the northwest. The land consists partly of fertile soil and partly of sandy tracts, moors, and heaths. The Ruhr valley, in the west, is part of the great Westphalian coal basin and of the Ruhr district, one of the world's most important industrial regions. The Ruhr district is connected with the Ems River by the…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(wĕstfāl'yӘ), Ger. Westfalen , region and former province of Prussia, W Germany. Münster was the capital of the province. After 1945 the province was incorporated into the West German state of North Rhine–Westphalia, now a state in reunified Germany. The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, a…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Former province of Prussia , now part of Germany. It comprises (with the former state of Lippe) the present German state of North Rhine–Westphalia and parts of the states of Lower Saxony and Hesse. Settled by Saxons called Westphalians c. ad 700, Westphalia was created a duchy (1180), which for…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Former province of Prussia, now part of Germany. Duchy created in 12th cent.; for several centuries administered for the archbishop of Cologne. Peace of Westphalia, terminating Thirty Years' War and in large measure determining political status of modern Europe, signed at Münster Oct. 24, 1648. In…
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Full text Article Peace of Westphalia

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
Also known as: Treaty of Westphalia 1648 The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for a series of agreements reached in the 1640s that finally ended the European wars of religion, the legacy of the split between Roman Catholicism and the Protestant Reformation. The initial phase of…
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Full text Article North Rhine-Westphalia

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Administrative region (German Land ) in northwestern Germany, bordered to the north and northeast by Lower Saxony, to the east by Hesse, to the south by the Rhineland-Palatinate, and to the west by Belgium and the Netherlands; area 34,079 sq km/13,158 sq mi; population (2003 est) 17,986,700. A…
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Full text Article North Rhine–Westphalia

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(nôrth rīn-wĕstfāl'yӘ), Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen (nôrt'rīn-vĕst´´fä'lӘn), state (1994 pop. 17,759,000), 13,111 sq mi (33,957 sq km), W central Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital. The state is bounded by Belgium and the Netherlands in the west, Lower Saxony in the north and east, Hesse in the…
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Full text Article Westphalia, Peace of

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(1648) European settlements that ended the Thirty Years’ War , negotiated in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The deliberations began in 1644 and ended in 1648 with two assemblies that produced the treaty between Spain and the Dutch (signed January 30) and another between Emperor…
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Full text Article Westphalia, Congress of (1644–8)

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy
The congress at which an end to the Thirty Years' War was negotiated. It had * venues at two Westphalian towns: Catholic Münster, to which were assigned the * plenipotentiaries of France, and Protestant Osnabrück, 55 kilometres away, to which were assigned those of Sweden. The representatives of the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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