title: Generality
text: # Generality
  
  Generality may be:
  
  A generality or generalty is a word used during the Ancien Régime in France and other Western European countries to indicate a specific territory under direct rule of central government (as opposed to a "particularity", which was the government of established provinces or principalities). These include:
  
  * Généralité (France)
  * Generaliteitslanden or Generality Lands (Netherlands)
  * Generalitat (Spain)
     * Generalitat de Catalunya, or Government of Catalonia
     * Generalitat Valenciana, or Governmental of Valencia
  