The Thirty Years War

The term Religious wars is known as such from a series of eight conflicts that developed in France during the second half of the sixteenth century and in which Catholics and Calvinist Protestants clashed, known as Huguenots and by extension applies to conflict unleashed in Europe in the seventeenth century, whose causes are including religious reasons
The immediate result of the war, and yet would last for nearly two centuries, was the consecration of a Germany divided among many territories.
The Thirty Years' War restructured prior to distribution. The decay of Spain became clearly visible. France was the main beneficiary of the Peace of Westphalia. While Spain was occupied with France during the French period, Portugal declared its independence.