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Treaty of Maastricht

Europe [1713]

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effect on Spanish history

In Spain: The War of the Spanish Succession
The treaties of Maastricht and Utrecht (1713) stripped it of its European possessions (Belgium, Luxembourg, Milan, Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples) and gave Britain Gibraltar and Minorca and the right to send one ship a year to trade with Spanish America.
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