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The reservatum ecclesiasticum (Latin, "ecclesiastical reservation"; ) was a provision of the Peace of Augsburg of 1555. It exempted ecclesiastical lands from the principle of [[cuius regio, eius religio]] (Latin: whose land, his religion), which the Peace established for all hereditary dynastic lands, such as those ruled by princes or dukes. Under this principle, the religion of the ruler would be the religion

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