Treaty of Brömsebro
About the Treaty of Brömsebro
Torstenson War ended, Denmark ceded Jämtland, Härjedalen, Gotland, Ösel, and Halland for 30 years, never returned. The first crack in the Danish Baltic empire, the Sound tolls, the Kalmar legacy, breaking toward Swedish century. Christian IV ambitions and the European war exhaustion shaped it. Nordic power moved definitively toward Stockholm for the next century.
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