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Who were the Cathars, and what did they believe?
This Christian sect was wiped out in France, where it originated
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One of the most mysterious religious sects of the High Medieval period, the Cathars were particularly prolific in the Languedoc region of France. Little is known about their ideology besides what has been recorded by their opponents. This group were followers of Jesus and the New Testament, eschewing the Old Testament, and they considered themselves the "true Christians." They appear to have been heavily influenced by the First Bulgarian Empire and the merging of ideas that came via the Great Silk Road trading route, from the Middle East and Byzantium.
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