• 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

      • nfh@lemmy.world
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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.