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Treaty of the Pyrenees
The
Treaty of the Pyrenees
(, , ) was signed on 7 November 1659 to end the
1635-1659 war
between
France
and
Spain
, a war that was initially a part of the wider
Thirty Years' War
. It was signed on
Pheasant Island
, a river island on the border between the two countries which has remained a French-Spanish
condominium
since the treaty. The kings
Louis XIV of France
and
Philip IV of Spain
were represented by their chief ministers,
Cardinal Mazarin
and Don
Luis de Haro
, respectively.
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