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Fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire
Front page of the Peace of Augsburg, 1555.
The treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire.
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