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Flag of Holy See (Vatican City)
 
Map of Holy See (Vatican City)
 
Holy See (Vatican City)
 
residence of the pope at Rome (see papacy; Roman Catholic Church). Since the so-called Roman Question was ended by the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and King Victor Emmanuel III (negotiated by Cardinal Gasparri and Mussolini), the Vatican City has been an independent state (108.7 acres/44 hectares), with the pope as its absolute ruler. It may be said to correspond politically to the former Papal States, but its origin is not connected with them.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (Copyright © 2002-2008 Columbia University Press.)
 
Pronunciation:  vt´-kn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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