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Thirty Years' War

A series of wars between the Catholics and Protestants of Germany in the seventeenth century. It began in Bohemia in 1618, and ended in 1648 with the “peace of Westphalia.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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