Papal States

Meaning

Proper 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.

Origin

  • Translation of Italian Stati Pontifici, from Latin Status Pontificius

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