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Junta

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A Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian term for a civil deliberative or administrative council, derived from the verb "juntar" meaning to join. In English, the term generally refers to a military junta, the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers. The term has various historical and current connotations in Spain, and was also used in 17th-century Britain without an authoritarian connotation, referring to the Whig Junto political faction.learn more on wikipedia