An extreme example was the population of the city of Hondschoote, which dropped from 18,000 to a mere 385 inhabitants.
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The ruler of the Netherlandish regions, a devout Catholic, Philip II of Spain, felt it was his duty to fight Protestantism, and, after the wave of iconoclasm, sent troops to crush the rebellion and make the Low Countries a Catholic region once more.
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