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In the sixteenth century the different countries of Western Europe gave up their common religious bond and agreed to a policy of non-interference in each other’s affairs, at least so far as religious belief (narrowly defined in terms of options, of course) was concerned. This is the principle of cuius regio, eius religio (let the ruler determine the religion) enshrined in the Peace of Augsburg of 1555. However it initially applied to only Catholics and Lutherans. Another century was necessary before thirty years of bloody conflict in Central Europe was ended in 1648 by a more general peace, the Treaty of Westphalia, which agreed to extend the cuius regio, eius religio principle of Augsburg to Calvinists.
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Corner, M. (2010). The Rise of the Nation-State. In: The Binding of Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274952_2
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