territories mostly in the Appenine Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope between 756–1870 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church (Italian: Stato della Chiesa, Italian pronunciation:[ˈstato della ˈkjɛːza]; Latin: Status Ecclesiasticus;[2] also Dicio Pontificia), were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope, from the 8th century until 1870.
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Stato della Chiesa Status Ecclesiasticus
754–1870 Interregna (1798–1799, 1809–1814 and 1849)
Map of the Papal States (green) in 1700, including its exclaves of Benevento and Pontecorvo in Southern Italy, and the Comtat Venaissin and Avignon in Southern France.
By 1861, much of the Papal States' territory had been conquered by the Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the Pope lost Lazio and Rome and had no physical territory at all, except the Vatican.