Albigensians

Albigensians
   This term, which generically designates the inhabitants of the city of Albi in southern France, specifically refers to the advocates of Catharism, a religious movement that taught a type of dualism (the opposition between good and evil) in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the Albigensians were effectively exterminated through various Crusades and theInquisition.

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