Home › Entities › peace_treaty › Peace of Westphalia

Peace of Westphalia

peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
Legislation peace_treaty Q150995
Peace of Westphalia
Gerard ter Borch · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Peace of Westphalia

Summary

Peace of Westphalia is a peace treaty[1]. It ranks in the top 0.68% of peace_treaty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,141 views/month, #3 of 438).[2]

Key Facts

  • Peace of Westphalia's instance of is recorded as peace treaty[3].
  • The location of Peace of Westphalia was Prinzipalmarkt[4].
  • The location of Peace of Westphalia was Osnabrück Town Hall[5].
  • Peace of Westphalia's Commons category is recorded as Peace of Westphalia[6].
  • Peace of Westphalia comprises Treaty of Münster (October 1648)[7].
  • Peace of Westphalia comprises treaty of Osnabrück[8].
  • Peace of Westphalia took place on October 24, 1648[9].
  • Peace of Westphalia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Peace of Westphalia[10].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[11].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Vlastenský slovník historický[14].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[17].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[18].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20].
  • Peace of Westphalia's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[21].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Holy Roman Empire[22].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Swedish Empire[23].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Kingdom of France[24].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Spanish Empire[25].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Switzerland[26].
  • Peace of Westphalia's signatory is recorded as Dutch Republic[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Peace of Westphalia include Westphalian sovereignty[28], a model[29], founded in 1648[30].

Why It Matters

Peace of Westphalia ranks in the top 0.68% of peace_treaty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,141 views/month, #3 of 438).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Westphalian sovereignty[28], a model[29], founded in 1648[30].

Related Entities

Dutch Republic Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of France Switzerland

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Q43441793. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Q43441793. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Peace of Westphalia. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/peace-of-westphalia
MLA “Peace of Westphalia.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/peace-of-westphalia.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_peace-of-westphalia_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Peace of Westphalia}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/peace-of-westphalia}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Peace of Westphalia — https://4ort.xyz/entity/peace-of-westphalia (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/peace-of-westphalia · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Point in time → +1648-10-24T00:00:00Z
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1910906
    Signatory → Holy Roman Empire, Swedish Empire, Kingdom of France +3
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9259, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.