Diet of Regensburg (1623)
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The Diet of Regensburg' was a meeting of the Imperial States of the Holy Roman Empire (or Fürstentag) convened by Ferdinand II in 1623. At it the Electoral Palatinate was transferred to Maximilian I. The meeting marked the high-watermark of imperial power during the Thirty Years' War.
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- (German) Gerhard Taddey: Regensburger Kurfürstentag. In: Ders.: Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte. 2.überarb. Aufl. Stuttgart, 1982 ISBN 3-520-80002-0 S.1016
- (German) Johannes Burkhardt: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg. Frankfurt am Main, 1992 S.93
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