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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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