And there is also San Marino in Italy that is a seperate country.

Thanks for this fascinating information! 👍

In 1929 Vatican City's independent sovereignty was recognized by the Fascist Italian government in the Lateran Treaty. Sovereignty is exercised by the pope upon his election as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He has absolute executive, legislative, and judicial powers within the city.

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage work about independence, recognition(Vatican 🇻🇦 ) in Italian peninsulas

This was really interesting. Please consider turning down the volume on the sound effects- especially the one that sounds like you are shaking out a bed sheet. Very distracting from the narration.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😊

Thank you for another great video!

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Yes, thank you for providing this information. These are things the church rarely mentions.

Love the history, Blessed Be.

Learning something new every day ✝️❤️

Cool. Thanks man

I think it's also interesting that not only is Vatican city a subject under international law, as are all sovereogn states,but the holy see is a separate subject

Can you do a feature episode about Portugal under Estado Novo

And then there's S.M.O.M., the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It occupies a floor of a building in Rome. I think it's the only "country" with a street address. It is a question if it's actually a country, but it does have international recognition by some places

Its so beautiful ❤😊

The Papal States have been around for millennia. They just used to be bigger. The question is, following on from the unification of Italy and the collapse of the Kingdom of Italy, why are they still independent. You could argue the same thing about Andorra, Liechenstein, Monaco, and San Marino.

As a fellow Catholic, thanks for making this video explaining how we managed to get our tiny but influential city state. 🇻🇦

🇻🇦 and 🇸🇲 inside 🇲🇨 in west 🇱🇮 in north (not neighbor but not far) 🇲🇹 in south Now Corsica in west thinking about an independence. So many small states/nations surround 🇮🇹

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in hardcore Papal and Italian history I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

As a citizen of the Vatican I can confirm this is accurate.

"Panem et Circenses" still to this day!!!

5:20 / 11:50

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Vatican must joint Italy to be 1 big country

With a population of 1,000, I'm assuming managing the Vatican is easy for its pope.

I love with all my heart the Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ from an Orthodox Christian from Russia ☦️🇷🇺❤✝️🇻🇦⛪🗺

The short answer to this video's title is "Because Pius IX was a jerk". And I have a few things to add. For starters, everyone in Italy knew Rome was going to be the capital, simply because only Rome can be the capital of Italy (it's an Italian thing). Thus during the First Italian War for Independence everyone, including the Pope's generals, assumed he was on board with forming a confederation... Then rejected unification, hence the Roman Republic that chased him out. Later the Kingdom of Sardinia, the state that would eventually unify the country, tried to form a confederation with the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and the Papal States with the Pope as president, but Pius IX rejected it on account he'd have to accept the two other kings as peers. Thus it was decided to take over as much of the Papal States as possible and wait out Pius IX to negotiate stuff with his successor. In the meantime, Napoleon III, who needed the support of the French Catholics, made a treaty with Italy guaranteeing Rome's independence and sent a garrison because Italy warned him that Garibaldi wouldn't care - and Garibaldi did in fact repeatedly assemble militias to try and invade Rome, and while Italy usually intercepted him the French had to fight him once. In the meantime, Pius IX would throw provocations at Italy at any chance. Then riots started in various Italian cities, as it seemed the government had given up on Rome, putting the new kingdom on the edge of collapse. The government knew they had to act, and soon. The chance came in 1870, when the proclamation of the Third French Republic nullified the treaty in the eyes of the Italian government... At the same time Pius IX was holding the First Vatican Council, in which he had the Pope proclaimed infallible when talking ex cathedra on religious matters and was trying to do the same in ALL matters, even against the bishops opposition. And thus Italy invaded and liberated Rome on September 20, with the streets leading to the main church of almost any Italian city and town being dedicated to the date to be extra petty (in Rome instead the street starts at Porta Pia, the gate in the walls where the Italians broke through). It was also decided to give the Pope a large allowance and freedom to do everything he wanted as long as he stayed out of politics, but Pius instead declared himself prisoner of Italy, complicating everything for Italy and his own successors. It's at this point that Bismarck suggested Wihlelm I to offer him asylum in Germany, as he fully expected the German Catholics to go Protestant once they were exposed to Pius IX. Eventually the situation was solved in 1929 with the Lateran Treaties signed under Mussolini's rule of Italy and Pope Pius XI, establishing Vatican City and regulating things between them and Italy. And the treaty is so important that even after the fall of Fascism nobody dared to touch it, and it was even enshrined in the new Constitution of the Italian Republic.

balogna? do you mean bologna?

How did Great Britain conolized Gibraltar and the island of menjorica

Because the Roman Empire lives on!!

The Vatican is one of the monuments in the world on which Christian symbolism is depicted 🇻🇦 = ✝️

So many of these different history channels offer questions like this. And I reject the premise and the conclusions drawn. You're not telling us why the Vatican is an independent state. You are giving us a partial explanation of how it became a state. Not really why nation states became the thing anyway. Not why it remains as it was. It it doesn't tell us if it should remain as it is or if it is likely that it will.

despicable what they're doing to gaza

Paul VI wasn’t pope at the end of WWII

The Vatican City is the Heart of the Holy Spirit 🇻🇦

why is this so hard to figure out? Catholic Church wants to govern itself with its own laws and rules and no oversight from Italy. Same situation with Washington D.C. and the City of London in which, if you think about it are the epicenters for the Military, Financial, and Spiritual might of the world.

any of my protestants watching? ✝️

They had to put the wealth of the Roman empire somewhere

Alternate Universe idea what if Southern Europeans Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, And Greeks remained at the topple of there positions and never got outperformed by Northern Europeans at any point in the early modern periods all the way to the 2000s?

Because Italy is a civilized country that allows smaller entities to survive within it borders without feeling compelled to delete them from existence. Besides, political compromises with the most powerful spiritual and one of the influential political authorities on the planet is conveniet for a recently unified State whose population follows, in an overwhelming majority, the doctrine devised by the aforementioned leader.

The video does not properly state the acquisition of land that formed the people states.

Rather foreboding about the future of the Catholic Church there

Viva La Vatican 🇻🇦✝️

It’s not a country. It’s a city state. There’s a difference.

Short answer: Money, Influence and Power. Chance my mind. ( Look up the grey pope)

There would probably be a similar phenomenon for Tibet if the Dalai Llama was stronger to stay independent of India and China.

No one wants to mess with d pope la 😂

Short answer: Charlemagne Long answer: Napoleon

It’s actually a city-state.

Probably because of something to do with the pope :)

Oi

To make the world a worse place and also to annoy me

Balogna? really?

Because fascist Mussolini restored the temporal power of the pope in the 1920s

Secrecy Jurisdiction.

Millions of Catholics world wide. Better that it is not "owned" by any one country, like Italy.

DEUS VULT

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2024 and these People still have Power....😱

Are they the Itlaian mafia?

...so the Pope and his compadres can get away with...stuff🤫

You don't exist! Stop imprisoning me!

I really thought it wouldn't be the smallest by LAND AREA, just by population. Turns out the only thing that can be smaller than the Vatican is a state without territory, like Somoliland, Transnistria or France. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area

God is lord✝️❤️

Crhist is King

The silence of the Vatican during WWII is shameful. Pius X11's cowardly silence regrading the Holocaust will never be forgotten.

“Why is Israel a country?” We all know why. We’re all just too complacent within the comfortability of our own lives to say it out loud.

Christianity was part of Judaism like rabbinical Judaism before the church

To avoid international prosecution and deportation ☠️☠️☠️

Ped power

can you please talk about the lands of kosovo and its history

It’s not a country

Whatever you say gma buwiset 40 to 60 celsius, hanggang lumayas ka.

Jesus said you are not related to him gma tv family. #cnn

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