Unified Schemes for Radio-loud Agn: Recent Results
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After briefly summarizing the main tenets of unified schemes of Active Galactic Nuclei, I review some recent results in the field of unification of radio-loud sources, both for the low-luminosity (BL Lacs and Fanaroff-Riley type I radio galaxies) and high-luminosity (radio quasars and FanaroffRiley type II radio galaxies) populations.
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