Papal States

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• Papal States — States of the Church Stati della Chiesa Status Pontificius ←   ← …   Wikipedia

• Papal States — former territory in central & NC Italy, ruled by the papacy from the 8th cent. until 1870 …   English World dictionary

• Papal States — the areas comprising a large district in central Italy ruled as a temporal domain by the popes from A.D. 755 until the greater part of it was annexed in 1860, by Victor Emmanuel II: the remaining part, Rome and its environs, was absorbed into the …   Universalium

• Papal States —    The political sovereignty of the popes over the city of Rome and a more or less extensive surrounding region goes back to Frankish times, when King Pepin and his son the Emperor Charle magne rescued the popes from domination by the Lombards… …   Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

• Papal States —    The Papal States were the territories on the Italian peninsula that were governed by the Popes for over a thousand years (eighth to ninteenth centuries). The Papal States ended with the capture of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy in 1870; in 1929 …   Glossary of theological terms

• Papal States scudo — Coin image box 1 double header = Sede vacante hbkg = #abcdef caption left = SEDE VACANTE MDCCCXXXXVI, cardinal Riario Sforza coat of arms surmounted by canopy, crossed keys, and cardinal s cap; R (mint) and NIC C (Niccolò Cerbara, engraver) in… …   Wikipedia

• Papal States lira — The lira was the currency of the Papal States between 1866 and 1870. It replaced the scudo at a rate of 5.375 lire = 1 scudo [ [http://www.tesionline.it/ PDF/9525/9525p.pdf] it icon] and was equivalent to the Italian lira. The lira was subdivided …   Wikipedia

• PAPAL STATES —    a territory in the N. of Italy extending irregularly from Naples to the Po, at one time subject to the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, originating in a gift to his Holiness of Pepin the Short, and taking shape as such about the 11th century …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Papal States — Pa′pal States′ n. pl. why+geg the areas in central Italy ruled by the popes from a.d. 755 until the unification of Italy in 1870 Also called States of the Church …   From formal English to slang

• Papal States — noun One of the major historical states of Italy before the peninsula was unified in 1861. It comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense …   Wiktionary