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The Peace of Westphalia marked the end of the Thirty Years' War between Europe's Protestant and Catholic powers, in which Switzerland – despite being subject to its own religious divisions – managed to remain neutral. The settlement, with Swiss mediation, gave legal recognition to Swiss sovereignty, and secured the country's total independence from the Germanic Empire.
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