Thirty Years' War
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈθɜrti jɪrz wɔr/
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Guerra de los Treinta Años
- The turning point was marked by France's entrance into the Thirty Years' War on the side of the Protestants.
- ended the Thirty Years' War
Examples
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During the Thirty Years' War, Spain supported the Catholics against the Protestants in Germany, the Catholic League against the Huguenots in France, and its Austrian cousins against the Turks.
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Be that as it may, state sovereignty came to be accepted as a principle of international law at the Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
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The Thirty Years' War had clear winners and losers.
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Spain undoubtedly possessed the most powerful empire in Europe before the Thirty Years' War.
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The significance of this turn of events for mobilizing the German Protestants in the Thirty Years' War can hardly be overestimated.
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Given that this was the age of the Thirty Years' War, one of the most horrifying wars ever fought in large part over rivalry between Christian sects, it's more impressive than it sounds today.
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From 1620 to 1644, during the Thirty Years' War, Protestants in the area surrounding the town of Vsetin staged a fierce rebellion against the Catholic Hapsburgs.
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The population was halved during the Thirty Years' War and recovered within a century.
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Spain undoubtedly possessed the most powerful empire in Europe before the Thirty Years' War.
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The turning point was marked by France's entrance into the Thirty Years' War on the side of the Protestants.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound reads literally as 'a war associated with thirty years' so a B1 learner who knows 'thirty', 'years', and 'war' will understand it refers to a war lasting or occurring over a thirty-year period (i.e., a named historical conflict). While the specific historical details and dates are not derivable from the words alone, the core meaning is compositional and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Thirty Years' War gets its name because it lasted about thirty years, from 1618 to 1648. So the name reminds you it was a long 'war' that involved many countries and changed many parts of Europe.