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The greatest accomplishment of Philip II of Spain was to

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Philip was the self-proclaimed protector of the Roman Catholic Church. He sought to limit the spread of Protestantism, and he ultimately completed the work of unification begun by Ferdinand and Isabella (the “Catholic Monarchs”) in the Iberian Peninsula. Read more about the house of Habsburg and the Habsburg dynasty.

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