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Group: Florence, Medici-ruled
People: John Singer Sargent
Topic: Northern Seven Years' War
Location: Hasankeyf Mardin Turkey

Northern Seven Years' War

Years: 1563 - 1570

The Northern Seven Years' War (also known as the Nordic Seven Years' War, the First Northern War or the Seven Years War in Scandinavia) is the war between Sweden and a coalition of Denmark-Norway, Lubeck and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, fought between 1563 and 1570.

The fighting continues until both armies have been exhausted, and many men die.

The resulting peace is a stalemate, with neither party gaining any new territory.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)