Peace of Brömsebro

In the Peace of Brömsebro, Swedish and Danish representatives met at Brömsebro (on the border between Belekinge and Smaaland) in 1645 to end the Danish participation in the Thirty Years' War. The peace was concluded on August 13, 1645. In the terms of the peace:

• Sweden was exempted from the “Sound dues,”
• Denmark ceded the Norwegian provinces of Jæmtland and Herjedalen.
• Sweden was to occupy the Danish province of Halland for 30 years as a guarantee of these provisions.

REferences

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