17 May 1993 The Thirty Years War ended in 1645 with the peace signed in Muenster and the application of the axiom "cuius regio, eius religio." This rule was by no means fair, but it worked perfectly. It boiled down to it that every feudal lord who had taken over the rule of a certain […]

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