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The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati Pontificii, "States of the Church") was one of the major historical states of Italy before the boot-shaped peninsula was unified under the Piedmontese crown of Savoy (later a republic). The Papal States comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense before 1870. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope, as opposed to his (unique and more essential) ecclestiastical primacy.

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◄ Papal States: Institutions
 

~ Table of Content ~

►Introduction
►Origins
►The Donation of Pippin and the Holy Roman Empire
►The Renaissance
►The era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
►Italian nationalism and the end of the Papal States
►Institutions
►See Also

 

 

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