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Definition of: Kulturkampf
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l·tr′kämpf) noun
The abortive political struggle initiated by Bismarck in 1872, between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church, which had for its main issue the control by the state of educational and ecclesiastical appointments. [<G, culture–conflict]
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