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Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to:

• Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing:
  • England: Midlands Enlightenment, period in 18th-century England
  • German states: German Enlightenment, 18th-century period in modern-day Germany
  • Greece: Modern Greek Enlightenment, an 18th-century national revival and educational movement in Greece
  • Habsburg Empire: Austrian Enlightenment and Hungarian Enlightenment, 18th-century period in modern-day Austria and Hungary
  • Italy: Italian Enlightenment, period in 18th-century Italy
  • Jewish: Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
  • Poland: Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
  • Russia: Russian Enlightenment, 18th-century period of active government encouragement of proliferation of arts and sciences in Russia
  • Scotland: Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th-century Scotland
  • Spain: Enlightenment in Spain, came to Spain with a new dynasty, the Bourbons, subsequent reform and ‘enlightened despotism’
  • United States: American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States
• Arab-populated regions of the Ottoman Empire: Nahda, Arab Enlightenment, late 19th to early 20th century
• China: May Fourth Movement, in the 1920s, and the New Enlightenment, in the 1980s

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