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| | Romantic nationalism - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel, who argued that there was a "spirit of the age" or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, their cultural and poltical moment came. |
 | | Under the influence of romantic nationalism, among economic and political forces, both Germany and Italy found political unify, and movements to create nations similarly based upon ethnic groups would flower in the Balkans (see for example, the Carinthian Plebiscite, 1920), along the Baltic Sea, and in the interior of Central Europe. |
 | | Romantic nationalism inspired the processes whereby folk epics, retold legends and even fairy tales, published in existing dialects, were combined with the need for a completely modern syntax to create a "revived" version of a language. |
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