Treaty of Westphalia

Westphalia        

Westphalia is a region in Germany.Westphalia is roughly the region between the rivers Rhine and Weser.

Westphalia is known for the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years' War.

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October of 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster.

These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic.

The Peace of Westphalia treaties involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III of the House of Habsburg, the Kingdoms of Spain, France, Sweden, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the free imperial cities and can be denoted by two major events.

The treaties resulted from the big diplomatic congress, thereby initiating a new system of political order(beginning of Nation states) in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of a sovereign state governed by a sovereign

 In the event, the treaties’ regulations became integral to the constitutional law of the Holy Roman Empire.