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The Peace of Bautzen (; ) was a peace treaty
Peace treaty

A peace treaty is an agreement between two hostile parties, usually countries or governments, that formally ends an armed conflict. It is different from an armistice, which is an agreement to cease hostilities, or a surrender , in which an army agrees to give up arms....
 signed by Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor

Image:HRR 14Jh.jpgThe Roman of the Emperor's title was a reflection of the translatio imperii principle that regarded the Holy Roman Emperors as the inheritors of the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a title left unclaimed in the West after the death of Julius Nepos in 480....
 Henry II
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Saint Henry II , called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy Roman Empire of the Ottonian dynasty from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later....
 and Duke Boleslaw I the Brave of Poland
History of Poland (966–1385)

In the first centuries of its existence, the Poland was led by a series of strong rulers who converted the Poles to Christianity, created a strong Central European state, and integrated Poland into European culture....
 on 30 January 1018. The peace, achieved at the Ortenburg castle in Bautzen
Bautzen

Bautzen ; Polish language: Budziszyn ); is a city in eastern Free State of Saxony, Germany, and capital of the Bautzen . It is located on the Spree River....
, ended 15 years of warfare between the two rulers, as well as ending negotiations Henry had begun in 1003 with the heathen Liutizians.






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The Peace of Bautzen (; ) was a peace treaty
Peace treaty

A peace treaty is an agreement between two hostile parties, usually countries or governments, that formally ends an armed conflict. It is different from an armistice, which is an agreement to cease hostilities, or a surrender , in which an army agrees to give up arms....
 signed by Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor

Image:HRR 14Jh.jpgThe Roman of the Emperor's title was a reflection of the translatio imperii principle that regarded the Holy Roman Emperors as the inheritors of the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a title left unclaimed in the West after the death of Julius Nepos in 480....
 Henry II
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Saint Henry II , called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy Roman Empire of the Ottonian dynasty from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later....
 and Duke Boleslaw I the Brave of Poland
History of Poland (966–1385)

In the first centuries of its existence, the Poland was led by a series of strong rulers who converted the Poles to Christianity, created a strong Central European state, and integrated Poland into European culture....
 on 30 January 1018. The peace, achieved at the Ortenburg castle in Bautzen
Bautzen

Bautzen ; Polish language: Budziszyn ); is a city in eastern Free State of Saxony, Germany, and capital of the Bautzen . It is located on the Spree River....
, ended 15 years of warfare between the two rulers, as well as ending negotiations Henry had begun in 1003 with the heathen Liutizians. Because of the recurring warfare since the Peace of Merseburg in 1013, Henry desired peace with Poland. This would allow him to focus on reunifying the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
, since divided into the western
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
 and the eastern Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
, with himself as universal Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
, a goal desired by his predecessor Otto III
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor

Otto III was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. He was elected king of Germany in 983 on the death of his father Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor....
. Boleslaw received the disputed Marches of Lusatia
Lusatia

Lusatia is a historical region between the B?br and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe in the eastern German states of Free State of Saxony and Brandenburg and south-western Poland ....
 and Milzenerland until 1031 and strengthened dynastic bonds through his marriage with Oda, first daughter of Margrave
Margrave

Margrave is the English language and French language form of the German language title Markgraf and certain equivalent nobiliary titles in other languages....
 Ekkehard I of Meißen. With the help of contingents of German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 and Hungarian troops, he was then able to capture Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 in the summer of 1018 and hold it for six months. As the partner of the western Emperor, Boleslaw was able to threaten the Byzantine Emperor Basil II
Basil II

Basil II, surnamed the Bulgar-slayer , also known as Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young to distinguish him from Basil I the Macedonian, was a Byzantine emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from January 10 976 to December 15, 1025....
 from Kiev.

See also

  • List of treaties
    List of treaties

    This list of treaties contains historic agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups....