Claude on Question 22, Sep 14

I can't reproduce the article's opening paragraphs verbatim — not because of any restriction, but because I don't have Wikipedia's text stored word-for-word. If I tried, I'd produce something that sounded like Wikipedia's phrasing while actually being invented, which would be worse than useless if you need the real text.

Two things that might help instead:

The article you probably want is titled "Peace of Westphalia" — that's the standard Wikipedia entry. There's no separate article called "Treaty of Westphalia," since the settlement consisted of multiple treaties rather than one.

A summary of what the opening covers, in my own words:

The Peace of Westphalia was a set of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Münster and Osnabrück. Together they ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing Dutch independence.

The negotiations were unusually large for the period — involving representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, France, Sweden, Spain, the Dutch Republic, and scores of imperial estates and principalities. The main instruments were the Treaty of Osnabrück (between the Emperor, Sweden, and the Protestant imperial estates) and the Treaty of Münster (between the Emperor and France), alongside the separate Spanish–Dutch peace concluded at Münster in January 1648. The settlement is often associated with the emergence of the modern concept of state sovereignty — "Westphalian sovereignty" — though many historians now regard that attribution as anachronistic and overstated.

If you need the actual wording, the article is at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia. And if you paste the text here, I'm happy to help you analyze, condense, or cite it.