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Name: Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek (Denmark)
Type: Polity
Start: 1560 AD
End: 1645 AD
Nation: bishopric of ösel–wiek
Parent: denmark
Statistics
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Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek (Denmark)
This article is about the specific polity Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek (Denmark) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics
The prince-bishop of Ösel-Wiek, Johannes V von Münchhausen, sold his country to Denmark.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. Northern Wars
A series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.
Was a war fought over the control of Old Livonia. The Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of the Dano-Norwegian Realm, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union (later Commonwealth) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. Old Livonia was finally partitioned between Sweden, Poland-Lithuania and Denmark-Norway.
Was the partition of Old Livonia between Denmark, Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
2. European wars of religion
Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.
Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.
2.1.1.Thirty Years' War Minor Scenarios
A series of conflicts related to the Thirty Years' War.
Was a brief war between Sweden and Denmark-Norway.
