• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 days ago

          The Patti Lateranensi are bad enough that you don’t need to spread misinformation about them.

          The Vatican “state” has existed since the middle ages, and for a period of time was quite big

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            2 days ago

            The Papal states, which was the middle ages version of Vatican City, didn’t exist for a period of almost 60 years, when modern Vatican City was first recognized as a nation, in the Lateran treaty.

            At some level, it’s a question of whether you view Vatican City as a new successor state, or a continuation of the former Papal states. The treaty framed it as a new state, which is at least an interesting historical fact.

          • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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            3 days ago

            Yup. At one point the Vatican was most of Italy. I don’t think Mussolini was around then, or he was very old during the war.