The most noted or infamous was the Spanish Inquistion.
The Holy Office of the Inquisition (Papal Inquistion) was concerned with heresy and heretics. In 1478, Spain set up its own Inquistion - the Spanish Inquisition. Initially, its sole function was to find insincere converts from Judaism. This was soon extended to insincere converts from Islam. Spain had a problem entirely of its own making: in the interests of uniformity, it put immense pressure on its large Jewish and Muslims to convert to Christianity. Those who refused were ultimately expelled from Spain. Later, the role of the Spanish Inquistion widened.
The priests of the Spanish Inquistion went to great lengths to devise totures that did not involve spilling blood, so they could say: "We do not shed blood".
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The suffix is -tion.
It was held only in Spain, as it was the Spanish Inquistion. However, Spain held all of the Iberian Peninsula at the time which includes modern day Portugal and Andorra as well as parts of modern day France.
From 1560 to 1812
"The purpose" would be "el propósito" in Spanish.
If you mean 'civil' wars then you have the great east / west schism. Or against others the spanish inquistion. not wars in the battlefield sense but certainly conflicts. then of course you have the crusades.
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