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The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of Aachen—called ''Aix-la-Chapelle'' in French and then also in English—in the west of the Holy Roman Empire. The resulting treaty was signed on 18 October 1748 by Great Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic. Two follow-up implementation treaties were signed at Nice on 4 December 1748 and 21 January 1749 by Austria, Spain, Sardinia, Modena, and Genoa.〔France also signed the first implementation treaty but not the second one.〕 ==Terms== Great Britain and France dictated the proposed terms of the treaty, which had previously been agreed at the Congress of Breda, and other nations accepted them. These were: # Austria recognised Frederick II of Prussia's conquest of Silesia, as well as renouncing parts of its Italian territories to Spain. # France withdrew from the Austrian Netherlands in order to have some of its colonies returned.〔p. 549 Kishlansky〕 France regained Cape Breton Island, lost during the war, while it returned the captured city of Madras in India to Great Britain and gave up the Barrier towns to the Dutch.〔''Britannica''〕 # Maria Theresa ceded the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Spain.〔''Britannica''〕 # The Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa, conquered by Austria, were restored.〔Laven, p. ??〕 # The Asiento contract, which had been guaranteed to Great Britain in 1713 through the Treaty of Utrecht, was renewed.〔Sosin, p. ??〕 Spain later raised objections to the Asiento clauses, and the Treaty of Madrid, signed on 5 October 1750, stipulated that Great Britain surrendered her claims under those clauses in return for a sum of £. 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 Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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