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The '''Expulsion of the Protestants''', called '''The Exodus''' by the Protestants, was | The '''Expulsion of the Protestants''', called '''The Exodus''' by the Protestants, was an event in the history of the southern [[Levantia]], marking the culmination of the [[Great Confessional War]] between the [[Protestant Union]] and the [[Holy League]]. The conflict, rooted in religious and political tensions, culminated in the signing of the unconditional surrender of the [[Protestant Union]] in the Treaty of TBD on August 10th, [[1575]]. With the ratification of the treaty by the allied lords of the [[Holy League]], a devastating clause was enacted, designating all Protestants as outlaws and stripping them of their rights to any form of property, be it land, titles, or other possessions. In the wake of this declaration, a series of draconian policies were implemented, the [[Dragonnades]]. These measures were designed to compel Protestant lords, nobles, merchants, and peasants to either embrace [[Catholicism]] or face expulsion from the lands they called home. | ||
Over the course of [[Great Confessional War]] and the thirteen harrowing years of [[Dragonnades]] that followed, the once-flourishing Protestant community, which had boasted tens of millions of adherents as recently as [[1551]], was systematically decimated. Despite valiant efforts to resist conversion or forced migration, only a fraction of their number, a mere 530,000 individuals, managed to survive or evade coerced religious conversion by [[1575]], and 493,000 of those had been "transported" by the time the expulsion policy reached its conclusion in [[1588]]. | Over the course of [[Great Confessional War]] and the thirteen harrowing years of [[Dragonnades]] that followed, the once-flourishing Protestant community, which had boasted tens of millions of adherents as recently as [[1551]], was systematically decimated. Despite valiant efforts to resist conversion or forced migration, only a fraction of their number, a mere 530,000 individuals, managed to survive or evade coerced religious conversion by [[1575]], and 493,000 of those had been "transported" by the time the expulsion policy reached its conclusion in [[1588]]. | ||