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Peace of the Pyrenees

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peace of the Pyrenees 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, had been complicated by French intervention in the revolt of the Catalans (1640-52) and by Spanish intervention in the Fronde . Together with the Peace of Westphalia, it marked the rise of France as the dominant European power. France received Roussillon and extensive territories in Flanders, while its Spanish border was set at the Pyrenees. A marriage contract between Louis XIV and Marie Thérèse, daughter of Philip IV of Spain, was included in the... Read more
Pyrenees, Peace of the
World Encyclopedia Pyrenees, Peace of the (1659) Treaty between France and Spain after the Thirty Years' War . France gained territory in Artois and Flanders, and... Read more
Pyrenees
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Spanish provinces are in the Pyrenees region. Perpignan, Bayonne...border, unchanged since the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659), generally follows...civilization reached in the Pyrenees by early humans is evidenced...the three main ranges of the Pyrenees, the central section is the... Read more

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Miracle that is the beautiful Pyrenees; Peter Woodman finds Pays Basque is unexplored.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/15/2000; 675 words ; ...the countryside: the vast Pyrenees mountains on one side and...rationed. Finally, there is the peace of the place, especially in...Basque country and the High Pyrenees still have a touch of the...the foothills of the eastern Pyrenees. We visited Foix, a lovely...Vieux Logis back in the main ... Read more
First the chunnel, now the Pyreneath. (France will build a tunnel through the Pyrenees)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/3/1988; 309 words ; ...President Mitterrand now wants to dig his way through the Pyrenees. The point chosen is a formidable mountain called Puymorens...inhabitants of other depressed end-of-the-road valleys in the Pyrenees say Ariage already has a rail tunnel under Puymorens, and...self-sufficient tradition that has kept Andorra ... Read more
Travel: Lofty purpose in the Pyrenees Could his father, 78, keep pace on a 10-day trek in Alto Aragon, one of the remotest regions of northern Spain? Christopher Somerville finds out
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/2/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Forsyth and her partner, Richard Cash, came to live in the Pyrenees eight years ago. Having explored the whole region thoroughly...the foothills; others explore the dramas of the High Pyrenees a few miles to the north. "Small is beautiful" is the...Aragonese, on the Republican side. The high passes of the ... Read more
'Transborder' parks hold seeds of peace movements
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/4/2004; ; 700+ words ; 'Transborder' parks hold seeds of peace movements By JEREMY SCHMIDT...Autumn mist rolls across the Pyrenees Mountains. Fresh snow dusts...shows how countries at peace can open their borders...boundaries might promote peace rather than simply benefit... Read more
Land for Peace: The French Solution.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly; 6/1/2000; ; 525 words ; ...minister Lionel Jospin urged Israel to make concessions for peace. More interesting yet, in documents relating to his visit...people, so they too can achieve a full, lasting, and just peace with their historic opponents. First, we all agree that...occupation must not be rewarded. A full withdrawal for full ... Read more
Pilgrim's progress to peace
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/5/2001; ; 654 words ; ...book of Saints. Hopping from Bosnia- Herzegovina to Mayo to the Pyrenees may be a touch disjointed, but it makes for a better, breezier...The author does not recover his faith, but he makes a kind of peace with his past. Worth the trip, really. Read more
Only peace enough to hear a breaking heart.(Columns)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 9/29/2001; 697 words ; ...team from Pontarddulais who had a most frozen to death on the Pyrenees. Later, we found a marvellous flat island, Isle de Rey, just...French sun was high and the surf was low, I was never really at peace; I never quite stopped listening to that crumbling music of... Read more
Peace in the valley
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/27/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...than to spend a couple of days drying out at a 10th-century Benedictine monastery nestled in the pine-clad foothills of the Pyrenees? We reasoned wrong: the Monasterio de Leyre is restful in the extreme - abstemious it is not. Less than an hour's drive from... Read more
Peace and quiet on the edge of nowhere; Property Mail.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/21/2004; 696 words ; ...1999, and has his main home in Brussels, along with a house in Barnes, South London. The Tarn is a remote part of the Midi-Pyrenees area of southern France, approximately an hour north of Toulouse - so what attracted Chris Patten to it? 'We used to go on... Read more
RETIREE FINDS POTENTIAL, PEACE IN RAISING ALPACAS.(METRO)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 2/2/2008; 674 words ; ...comes in about 22 basic colors with many variations and blends. Raidl's herd is guarded and patrolled at all times by two great Pyrenees. The dogs take their job seriously. When the herd made a recent group appearance in the barn, they were accompanied by their... Read more

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