Hamburg comparison (1729)

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The Hamburg settlement of 1729 was an international agreement between the kingdoms of Denmark under King Frederick IV and Sweden under King Frederick I , which affected the Duchy of Verden .

The secularized dioceses of Verden and Bremen fell to Sweden as the Duchy of Verden as part of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. In the course of the Great Northern War , under King Charles XII. the Swedish supremacy in Northern Europe. Denmark occupied the duchy between the Elbe and Weser in 1712 and then sold it in 1715 to the allied Electorate of Hanover under George I , who created essential territorial conditions for the later Kingdom of Hanover and today's Lower Saxony .

In the Hamburg settlement of 1729, Sweden recognized its loss of territory and the cession of the Duchy of Verden to Hanover in return for monetary compensation.