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Categories: States and territories disestablished in 1809, Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference, Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the symbol caption or type parameters, States and territories disestablished in 1849, 752 establishments in the Papal States

Papal States Church State Ecclesiastical States History of Papal States history of the Papal States

The temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy) WordNet 3.0

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The temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 until 1870. Wikipedia

Territories mostly in the Appenine Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope between 756–1870 Wikidata

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

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elective monarchy

Absolute theocratic monarchy

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Rome