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History of the Palatinate (region)

  • MannheimOn the 17th of March 1606, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine laid the foundations of a fortress that would become Mannheim.
  • Peace of WestphaliaEurope had been battered by both the Thirty Years' War and the overlapping Eighty Years' War. These conflicts exacted a heavy toll in money and lives across…