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Junta, in Spain, the name given to a council for administrative or political purposes. When Napoleon organised the Kingdom of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte (1808), he summoned a convention under the name of a junta of 150 notables, of whom 90 assembled. When in a few weeks Joseph had to retire, a fresh junta was formed hostile to the French.