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  1. Religious settlement following the Diet of
  2. Augsburg 1555, which established the right of
  3. princes in the Holy Roman Empire (rather than
  4. the emperor himself, Ferdinand I) to impose a
  5. religion on their subjects - later summarized
  6. by the maxim cuius regio, eius religio. 
  7. It initially applied only to Lutherans and
  8. Catholics.
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  10. Subject by: Russell Webb
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