Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years war was a series of battles that lasted from 1618 to 1648. This war was one of the great conflicts of early modern European History of this time 1. The opponents during the Thirty Years war The House Of Austria, The Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperors Ferdinand II and Ferdinand II together with their Spanish cousin Philip 1V 2. During the war of thirty years, the Hapsburgs were opposed by many different international opponents of House of Austria, the Danish, Dutch, and France and Sweden 3. Along with the long years of the war, there was a dimension of a German Civil War. The principalities made Germany against Hapsburg, which also affected the Thirty Years War and pro-longed it. The Thirty Years war was also based on a religious war among Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists. Religion made the war complex enough, but adding to the conflicts within the political and military aspects, made the Thirty Years War highly complex.
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