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Westphalia

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West·pha·lia  (wst-fly, -fl-)
A historical region and former duchy of west-central Germany east of the Rhine River. The duchy was created in the 12th century and was administered for many centuries by ecclesiastical princes, especially the archbishop of Cologne. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) marked the end of the Thirty Years' War. Napoleon seized the area in 1807 and designated a portion of it as the kingdom of Westphalia, to be ruled by his brother Jérôme. The region became part of Prussia after 1815.
West·phalian adj. & n.
Westphalia [wɛstˈfeɪlɪə]
n
(Placename) a historic region of NW Germany, now mostly in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia German name Westfalen
Translations
Westphalia
n → Westfalen nt


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Previous to the peace of Westphalia, Germany was desolated by a war of thirty years, in which the emperor, with one half of the empire, was on one side, and Sweden, with the other half, on the opposite side.
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