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- Dictionaryciv·il war/ˌsivil ˈwôr/
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- 1. a war between citizens of the same country: "they signed a peace accord ending the country's 12-year civil war"
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A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies. The term is a calque of Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. Wikipedia