Papal States

English

Etymology

Translation of Italian Stati Pontifici, from Latin Status Pontificius

Proper noun

Papal States

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.

Translations

state

Danish: Kirkestaten, Pavestaten (uncommon)
Finnish: Kirkkovaltio
French: États pontificaux (fr) m pl
Georgian: პაპის ოლქი (ṗaṗis olki)
Indonesian: Negara Kepausan

Italian: Stato Pontificio m
Latin: Status Pontificius m
Portuguese: Estados Papais m pl
Spanish: Estados Pontificios m pl

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