Papal States

NOUN
  1. the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy)
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How To Use Papal States In A Sentence

  • The Papal States, as a "government of priests," epitomized to anticlericals all that was evil.
  • Then normal candidates for Italian unification are Sardinia-Piedmont, the Papal States, or the Two Sicilies.
  • On the site of a Roman colony, it became part of the Papal States in 1631. Population, 90,147.
  • The principles of laissez-faire and the ideas of the physiocrats were invoked even in the Papal States, where the customs system and the urban provisioning regulations were reformed in the same years.
  • The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
  • The defeat of the French meant the restoration of the old regimes in Italy, including the Papal States.
  • Finally, in the spring of 1860 he sent the bulk of his army north to protect the frontier with the Papal States.
  • In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope.
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