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The Treaty of London ((フランス語:Traité de Londres)), often called the Second Treaty of London after the 1839 Treaty, was an international treaty signed on 11 May 1867. Agreed in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and the Luxembourg Crisis, it had wide-reaching consequences for Luxembourg and for relations between Europe's Great Powers. ==Effects== The immediate effect of the treaty, established in Article I, was the reaffirmation of the personal union between the Netherlands and Luxembourg under the House of Orange-Nassau.〔Treaty of London, Article I〕 It lasted until 1890, when a woman (Queen Wilhelmina) ascended to the Dutch throne. As at that time the Salic law was still in effect in Luxembourg, she could not become Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. It was the older branch of the House of Nassau (Nassau-Weilburg, nowadays called Luxembourg-Nassau) which inherited that dignity, giving Luxem-bourg again its own exclusive dynasty. The Luxembourg Crisis had erupted after French Emperor Napoleon III attempted to buy Luxembourg from the Dutch King William III. Consequently, maintaining Dutch dominance over the de jure independent Luxembourg, free from French interference, was of paramount importance to Prussia. The neutrality of Luxembourg, established by the First Treaty of London, was also reaffirmed. Those parties that did not sign the earlier treaty were to become guarantors of Luxembourg's neutrality (an exception was Belgium, which was, itself, bound to neutrality).〔Treaty of London, Article II〕 To ensure Luxembourg's neutrality, the (westward) fortifications of Luxembourg City, known as the Gibraltar of the North, were to be demolished and never to be rebuilt.〔Treaty of London, Article V〕 To the east the city was protected by a deep river valley and medieval fortifications which still exist nowadays. Dismantling the westward and underground fortifications took sixteen years at a cost of 1.5 million gold francs, and required the destruction of over of underground defences and 40 000 m² (10 acres) of casemates, batteries, barracks, etc.〔(World Heritage List - Luxembourg ). UNESCO, 1 October 1993. Retrieved on 2 July 2006.〕 Nowadays the still very large residual fortifications of Luxembourg City are part of the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. Furthermore, the Prussian garrison, which had been sited in Luxembourg since 1815 in accordance with the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, was to be withdrawn.〔Treaty of London, Article IV〕 The Seven Weeks' War had led to the collapse of the German Confederation. Two former members, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Duchy of Limburg, had the Dutch king as their head of state (as ''Grand Duke of Luxembourg'' and ''Duke of Limburg'').To clarify the position in the wake of the death of the Confederation further, the Treaty of London affirmed the end of the Confederation and stated that Limburg was henceforth to be considered with all its "''territories''" an "''integral part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands''".〔Treaty of London, Article VI〕 The independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, still linked to the Netherlands by a personal union, would rejoin the newly re-established German customs union, the ''Zollverein'', in which it would remain until 1 January 1919, long after the personal union had ended (1890). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Treaty of London (1867)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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