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Categories: Articles with short description, 8th-century establishments in the Papal States, Former theocracies, History of Catholicism in Italy, Christendom
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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