Treaty of Brömsebro
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The Treaty of Brömsebro or the Peace of Brömsebro of August 13, 1645 ended the Torstenson War (a local conflict that was part of the larger Thirty Years' War) between Sweden and Denmark-Norway, which had begun in 1643. Negotiations for the treaty began in February the same year in the village of Brömsebro on the border between provinces Blekinge and Smaland. The military strength of Sweden ultimately forced Denmark to give in to Swedish demands, ceding the Norwegian provinces of Jemtland, Herjedalen and Idre & Särna as well as the Baltic Sea islands of Gotland and Ösel. Also in the terms of the peace, Sweden was exempted from the “sound dues,” a toll on foreign ships passing through Danish waters into the Baltic Sea. In addition to this, Sweden received the province of Halland for a period of 30 years as a guarantee of these provisions. It was followed by the Treaty of Roskilde of 1658, which forced Denmark-Norway to further concessions.
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- History of the Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, The MacMillan Company, 1915, Volume I
- Nordens Historie, ved Hiels Bache, Forslagsbureauet i Kjøbenhavn, 1884.
- The Struggle for Supremacy in the Baltic: 1600-1725 by Jill Lisk; Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1967
