Is the Vatican it's own country or city or what? I know it has a flag but I never really bothered to learn why. Does anyone know the history on this? How long it has been a country or state or whatever it is considered?
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Hey, how's this Christy?
I just did a copy and paste. I think doing a custom avatar is beyond my abilities at the moment.BTW, Vatican City is it's own city-state. It has diplomatic relations with other countries and has a seat on the UN...non-voting however.
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Do you know for how long it had been that way Veritas?
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By the way I love that picture, you can put it in your signature so it is there all the time but thats hard to explain it took me awhile to figure out.
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The vatican City State is fairly recent. In the Middle Ages the Pope ruled all of Rome and some other nearby provinces known as the Papal States. This was when Italy was divided into lots of different Kingdoms and independent states like Naples, Venice, Florence and Genoa.
In the 1800s General Garribaldi led a secular army in the Unification of Italy, conquering all the independent states to unite them in one country. He invaded Rome, leaving the Pope and Curia isolated in the area of St Peters, which the Pope refused to leave, calling himself the "prisoner of the Vatican". Eventually a concordat was signed respecting the independence of the small area of the Vatican City.
In the 1800s General Garribaldi led a secular army in the Unification of Italy, conquering all the independent states to unite them in one country. He invaded Rome, leaving the Pope and Curia isolated in the area of St Peters, which the Pope refused to leave, calling himself the "prisoner of the Vatican". Eventually a concordat was signed respecting the independence of the small area of the Vatican City.
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I read somewhere that Vatican City is celebrating its 75 anniversary as its own City Statehoodnessismdom.
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From what I understand, Vatican City is the smallest, offical country, in the world.
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