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BECAUSE OF THESE RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES AND SEPARATIONS
from the Church of Rome, the Catholic Church came to conflict with the opposing sects and tried to
control these factions by force. The result of these conflicts was the bloody and very long series of
wars which devastated Europe and caused un-told deaths called the Thirty Years' War.
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618-1648):
THE NAME OF THESE CONFLICTS WAS GIVEN AS THE THIRTY YEARS' War. This series of wars and conflict is also known
as the Holy Wars. Countries participating in the conflicts included England, Spain, the Dutch United
Provinces, Denmark, Sweden, France, and Germany.
SINCE GERMANY HAD TURNED TO THE RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS OF Martin Luther, the Holy Roman Empire was reluctant
to let the Protestant thoughts rest. The battles and major devastation which occurred was fought mostly
in the rich Saar Ore Region between Germany and North eastern France. Former names of this region were the
Palatinate, Alsace-Lorraine, and today called Bashrir Figure 1-1
(2)
AFTERMATHS OF WAR:
THE RESULT OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR WAS THE ALMOST COMPLETE devastation of Germany. Historical sources indicate
that more than one-half of Germany's population may have been killed. Towns, villages, and rural
communities were leveled or burned. A modern historian estimated that the population of Germany sank
40% in the countryside, and 33% in the cities. (3)
ANOTHER HISTORIAN INDICATES THAT GERMANY WAS REDUCED TO A state of misery that no other historian has been able
to describe, save by details of the horrors of one of the villages amongst thousands that were ruined.
Germany remained for a century in the stillness of exhaustion. (4)
2 "The Thirty Years' War," The Collegiate Encyclopedia
Vol. 18, Grolier Incorporated, New York, New York, 1973, p92-93
3 Advisory Committee, The New Cambridge Modern History
Vol. IV, The University Printing House, Cambridge, Great
Britain, 1970, p. 357.
4"Thirty Years' War". Encyclopedia Britannica_, Vol. 2
New York, New York, p. 139
