The Gastein Convention (German: Gasteiner Konvention), also called the Convention of Badgastein, was a treaty signed at Bad Gastein in Austria on August 20, 1865. It embodied agreements between the two principal powers of the German Confederation, Prussia and Austria, over the governing of the so-called Elbe Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Saxe-Lauenburg.
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