Truce of Altmark

Truce of Altmark
Bilingual Polish and Swedish memorial stone in Stary Targ
TypeCeasefire
Signed16 (O.S.)/26 (N.S.) September 1629
LocationAltmark (Stary Targ), Poland
Parties

The six-year Truce of Altmark (or Treaty of Stary Targ, Polish: Rozejm w Altmarku, Swedish: Stillståndet i Altmark) was signed on 16 (O.S.)/26 (N.S.) September 1629 in the village of Altmark (Stary Targ), in Poland,by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, with helped by Richelieu's envoy Charnacé ending the Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629)，and freeing Gustavus to enter the Thirty Years' War.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Truce of Altmark, 12 September 1629". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. ^ Wedgwood, C.V. (1938). The Thirty Years War (2005 ed.). New York Review of Books. pp. 385–386. ISBN 978-1-59017-146-2.
  3. ^ Porshnev, B F. (1995). Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630-1635. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521451390.