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Heir of the Habsburgs, Charles V united Spain, the Low Countries, the Holy Roman Empire and the American conquests, fought the Lutheran Reformation and the Ottomans as champion of universal Catholicism, crushed the Comuneros and abdicated in 1556.
Political topics
Charles V leans further toward religious than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Charles V stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Charles V sits practically at the catalog median.
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Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian26%
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United with León in 1230, Castile expanded across Iberia and later the Americas. The Crown, nobility, and Catholic Church shaped its politics; institutions changed over the nearly five centuries covered here.
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