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Vatican City

An independent papal state on the Tiber River within Rome, Italy. Created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Pope Pius XI and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in 1929, it issues its own currency and postage stamps and has its own newspaper and broadcasting facilities. The government is run by a council of cardinals who are responsible to the pope.

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Vatican City

(Placename) an independent state forming an enclave in Rome, with extraterritoriality over 12 churches and palaces in Rome: the only remaining Papal State; independence recognized by the Italian government in 1929; contains St Peter's Basilica and Square and the Vatican; the spiritual and administrative centre of the Roman Catholic Church. Languages: Italian and Latin. Currency: euro. Pop: 836 (2013 est). Area: 44 hectares (109 acres). Italian name: Città del Vaticano Also called: the Holy See

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Vat′ican Cit′y

an independent state within the city of Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber: established in 1929. 1000; 109 acres (44 hectares). Italian, Cittá del Vaticano.

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Vatican City - the capital of the State of the Vatican City

Citta del Vaticano

Vatican, Vatican Palace - the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City

Holy See, State of the Vatican City, The Holy See - the smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929

Translations

Ватикана

Vatikán

Vatikanstaten

Vatikanstadt

Βατικανό

Ciudad del Vaticano

Vatikan

Vatikaani

Cité du VaticanVatican

Sveta StolicaVatikan

Vatikán

Vatikan

バチカン

Vatikanas

Vatikāns

Watykan

Vaticano

Ватикан

Sveti sedežVatikan

VatikanenVatikanstaten

Vatican City

n → Vatikanstadt f

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(8) See Lercaro's speech in Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II (Vatican City: Typis polyglottis Vaticanis, 1970-) III/6 249-53; for Lercaro's December 6, 1962, speech on poverty, see Acta synodalia I/4 327-30; and Giuseppe Ruggieri, "Beyond an Ecclesiology of Polemics," in History of Vatican II, vol.