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Wikipedia: The Papal State(s), State(s) of the Church or Pontifical States were one of the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (after which the Papal States, in less territorially extensive form, continued to exist until 1870). The Papal States comprised territories under direct sovereign rule of the papacy, and at its height it covered most of the modern Italian regions of Romagna, Marche, Umbria and Lazio. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy.
![[The Breach of Porta Pia, on the right, in a contemporary photograph.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/BrecciaPortaPia_s.jpg "The Breach of Porta Pia, on the right, in a contemporary photograph.")
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![[Papal Zouaves pose in 1869.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/I_fratelli_de_charette_de_la_contrie_detti_i_moschettieri_del_papa_s.jpg "Papal Zouaves pose in 1869.")
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![[Antichristus by Lucas Cranach the Elder is an woodcut of the Papal States at war during the Renaissance]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PapalPolitics_s.jpg "Antichristus by Lucas Cranach the Elder is an woodcut of the Papal States at war during the Renaissance")
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