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A
civil war is a
war in which the parties are segments of the same country or empire. The contention is often over matters of religion, ethnicity, or politics, but is sometimes simply a struggle for power between two or more rival groups.
Examples of civil wars include:
The Anarchy , 1135-1153
Wars of the Roses , ~1455-1485
English Civil War , 1642-1649
American Civil War , 1861-1865
Russian Civil War , 1917-1921
Finnish Civil War , 1918
Irish Civil War , 1922-1923
Chinese Civil War , 1928-1937, 1945-1949
Spanish Civil War , 1936-1939
Nigerian Civil War[?] , 1967-1970
See also
There were also several major civil wars in the Roman Empire .
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