Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...which was a crushing setback to the cause of German unity. The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace...