Junta
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- In modern usage, junta (pronounced as in Spanish Template:IPA or Template:IPA ) typically refers to a collective military dictatorship, especially in Latin America, which is officially run by a committee of high-ranking military officers. Juntas are often not collegial in practice, as one officer often holds most power. Well-known juntas include Augusto Pinochet's rule of Chile and the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, the infamous military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. See also History of Argentina, History of Chile , the Regime of the Colonels that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 also known as The Junta of the Colonels.
- In Spanish, junta, literally "joint (meeting)", is used for various collegial bodies.
- During the Habsburg rule, junta was used for various regular administrative bodies in Iberia and other European countries (including the Low countries, where the French version jointe was also in official use) ruled -in personal union- by the Spanish crown, and even was maintained in some cases after those were divided in territories brought under the imperial Austrian branch of the dynasty
- In the Napoleonic era, junta was also the name chosen by several local administrations forming in Spain during the Peninsula War as a patriotic alternative to the official administration topped by the French invaders.
- The Primera Junta and Junta Grande were executive governments in Argentina short after the May Revolution for independence.
- In Spanish America, the Criollo juntas were formally loyal to Ferdinand VII of Spain, but in the power void, they became actually independent, preparing the independence of Spanish America.
- In modern Spain Juntas exist in some of the reatively recent autonomous governments of Spain
- Junta of Andalusia
- Junta of Extremadura
- Xunta (Galician form) of Galicia
- In music:
- Junta is an album by the popular U.S. band Phish (though pronounced jun-tah as if it were originally an English word).
- Junta is a progressive metal band based out of Union City, New Jersey
- "Jet Set Junta" is a song by the influential, though little known, UK band The Monochrome Set. As in the Phish album, the word is pronounced phonetically.
- The Junta is a punk rock club in Sacramento, California.
- Junta (game), a board game designed by West End Games
- For the Hindi designation for the people or the common populace, see Janata.Template:Disambig-cleanup
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