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	Vatican City - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		Vatican City, formally the State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano) is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.
		Vatican City has its own post office, fire brigade, police service, commissary (supermarket), bank (the automatic teller machines are the only ones in the world to offer customers service in Latin, among other languages), railway station, electricity generating plant, and publishing house.
		The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the north-western part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Vatican_City (4185 words)

	Wikipedia: Vatican City
		The State of the Vatican City is the smallest independent country in the world (both in area and in population), a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life by those Cardinalss under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the Sistine Chapel).
		The Vatican City is situated on the Vatican Hill in the northwestern part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/v/va/vatican_city.html (895 words)

	Vatican City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vatican City — formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanæ and Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano) — is an ecclesiastical sovereign landlocked enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy.
		The Head of State is the Pope; the Heads of Government are the Secretary of State and Governor of Vatican City (sometimes referred to as the President of Vatican City).
		The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the north-western part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river, on the latter's right bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vatican_City (2411 words)

	Reference for Vatican City - Search.com
		Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.
		Vatican City is a non-hereditary, elected monarchy that is ruled by the Bishop of Rome — the Pope.
		The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the west-central part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river.
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	Vatican City tours
		Vatican City is a sovereign landlocked enclave surrounded by Rome in Italy.
		Vatican City is considered a non-hereditary elective monarchy with the Pope that wields absolute authority.
		The Vatican citizenship is reserved to the cardinals resident in Vatican City and Rome, to the employees of the Vatican only for the duration of the position, and to people having the citizenship granted by the Popes, like consorts and children of other citizens.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
		The Vatican museums are: (1) The Museo Pio-Clementino; (2) the Galleria Chiaramonti; (3) the Braccio Nuovo; (4) the Egyptian Museum; (5) the Etruscan Museum.
		The Vatican dispensary, which was formerly in the Cortile di San Damaso, was recently transferred to the quarters of the Swiss Guards, and lies at the door of the Torrione di Nicolò V which leads to the city.
		The Vatican must be regarded as the administrative centre of the Catholic Church, since it is the residence of the supreme head of that Church, and from it the whole Church is governed.
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	Jesus Family Tomb: Christianity - The Vatican
		The Vatican City is a non-hereditary monarch who is elected by a conclave of cardinals under the age of 80; while an elective monarchy, the Vatican is also an absolute monarchy, as the Pope holds legal, executive and judicial authority.
		The official languages of the Vatican are Latin, Italian, French and German, the latter of which is the official language of the Swiss Guards, the military body of the Vatican City.
		In addition, the Second Vatican Council was held in 1962 to 1965 and served to restore unity among various Christian denominations, as well as to define the Church’s objectives and to reinforce the position of the Pope within the Roman Catholic Church.
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	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		The State of the Vatican City (commonly known also as the Vatican City-State) is the smallest independent country in the world (both in area and in population), a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life by those Cardinals under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the Sistine Chapel).
		The Vatican City is situated on the Vatican Hill in the northwestern part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river.
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	Vatican City (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The State of the Vatican City (commonly known also as the Vatican City-State) is the smallest independent country in the world (both in area and in population), a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The Vatican City includes the Vatican Hill (mons vaticanus), whose name predates Christianity, and the Vatican Fields north of the hill, upon which St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican Museums are built.
		Disputes between a series of "prisoner" popes and Italy were resolved on February 11, 1929 by three Lateran treaties, which established the independent state of the Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy.
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	Vatican City - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Vatican City, also known as the Holy, See What You Did There, is a city-state located near the death star, with a holographic counterpart on Earth and is thought of as the main reason to the fall of the Gremlins.
		Vatican City, or the Vatican, is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and all 1 billion or more Catholics answer directly to mind-rays emitted from aliens that plan to take over Mcdonalds Corp. except for members of the Society of Jesus, who willfully broke away from the Catholic Church billions of years ago.
		Vatican City also is known for its love of sports, particularly baseball, and is home to the World Series champs, the Vatican City Cardinals.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Vatican (1356 words)

	Tour of the Vatican Museum
		Originally, the official residence of the bishops of Rome was not the Vatican, but the Lateran Palace, which once belonged to the Roman family of the Laterans, and was donated to the Roman Church.
		The military character of these early buildings testifies to their use by the popes as an emergency refuge.
		The Vatican City State has, along with the rest of the world, emerged from history to be recognized by the international community as a legal sovereign body with membership to various international organizations (Universal Postal Union, International Telecommunications Union, International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works).
	touritaly.org /tours/vaticanmuseum/Vatican01.htm (739 words)

	Vatican Exhibit Rome Reborn
		Rome now is one of the grandest cities in the world.
		Rome was dwarfed in wealth and power by the great commercial cities and territorial states farther north, from Florence to Venice.
		They drew on all the riches of Renaissance art and architecture to adorn the urban fabric, which they saw as a tangible proof of the power and glory of the church.
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	The Vatican Library (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture)
		The Vatican Library, in fact, became a center of the revival of classical culture known as the Renaissance.
		New palaces in the city and country estates spreading up the surrounding hills reflect the growth of prosperity and the efforts of cardinals, ambassadors, and others to make the city splendid once again.
		One of the many remarkable qualities of the Vatican's manuscripts is the richness of the marginal notes in which generations of scholars discussed and evaluated their content.
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	The Vatican City
		The name of the Vatican City comes from the name of the hill on which it is located, Vatican Hill.
		The Vatican City is surrounded by a high wall and Viale Vaticano for the whole of its length.
		Since the proceedings take some time, there is always an interregnum between the death of pope and the election of his successor; John Paul I died on September 29 and John Paul II (pictured) was elected on October 16, 1978.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/vatican.htm (926 words)

	Vatican City
		Vatican lira (on par with the Italian lira).
		Bishop of Rome (the Pope), the Vatican City is officially a monarchy.
		Due to their rarity, Vatican euro coins are highly sought by collectors.
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	Vatican City
		VATICAN CITY, NOV. 14, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Asserting that ecumenical unity is one of the priorities of his pontificate, John Paul...
		Vatican City: The Vatican is opening up more of its archives on the Inquisition as part of an unprecedented study of the effect the Catholic Church's attempt...
		VATICAN CITY, NOV. 11, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Here is an evaluation of the present state of relations of the Catholic Church with the...
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		The State of Vatican City covers an area extending from a short distance from the right bank of the Tiber and includes a slight elevation, of what was anciently known as the Vatican Hill, the old Ager Vaticanus on which summer villas were built during the republican period.
		The Vatican City is thus recognized - and this is so also in international discipline - as a moral, artistic and cultural patrimony worthy of being respected and protected as a treasure belonging to humanity.
		Acquisition and loss of citizenship, authorization to reside in the State of Vatican City and formalities to enter, are set out in the Law N. III of 7 June 1929, on citizenship and residence, and in the Regulation N. XXXVI of 27 September 1932, for entrance to Vatican City.
	www.vatican.va /news_services/press/documentazione/documents/sp_ss_scv/informazione_generale/sp_ss_scv_info-generale_en.html (1383 words)

	VATICAN CITY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Head_of_State is the Pope; the Heads of Government are the Secretary of State and Governor_of_Vatican_City (sometimes referred to as the President of Vatican City).
		The Pope delegates the internal administration of the Vatican City to the Pontifical_Commission_for_the_State_of_the_Vatican_City.
		The Vatican (which has its own country_code, ''.va'') has an official website, radio station, and satellite TV channels.
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	Vatican City (Holy See)
		The Vatican City State is situated on the Vatican hill, on the right bank of the Tiber River, within the city of Rome.
		The Vatican City State, sovereign and independent, is the survivor of the papal states that in 1859 comprised an area of some 17,000 sq mi (44,030 sq km).
		On June 3, 1985, the Vatican and Italy ratified a new church-state treaty, known as a concordat, replacing the Lateran Treaty of 1929.
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	Reference for Military of France - Search.com
		The President of the Republic is the Commander-in-Chief of the military that has, as some of its primary objectives, the defence of national territory, the protection of French interests abroad, and the maintenance of global stability.
		However, the Constitution puts civil and military government forces at the disposal of the government (the executive cabinet of ministers, who are not necessarily of the same political side as the president).
		The total number of military personnel is approximately 359,000, although approximately 100,000 of these are in the Gendarmerie and, thus, used in everyday law enforcement operations within France (elements of the Gendarmerie are, however, present in all French external operations, providing specialised law enforcement troops/military police).
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	Vatican City : VA
		Vatican City : VA The State of the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The chief was at home, and, not unimpressed by the received him under conditions of truce.
		He had an eye for military recognised in Ojeda the little man who kept him so long at bay outside none the worse for that.
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	U.S. Embassy to the Holy See
		Over tea, she and her hosts were able to discuss a variety of issues including the status of Muslims in Rome and efforts to develop an indigenous cadre of imams and ensure proper education for Muslim children.
		Music composed in the 40 years since the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council was included, as were ancient Latin texts set to chant.
		Vatican Cardinal who prepared study on condoms says main weapon in AIDS fight is chastity (December 20, 2006)
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	What does the word Vatican mean?
		The Vatican City is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and since the Lateran Concordat of 1929 it is also an independent country, the epitome of Church and State combined.
		The city itself is the diocese of the pope as bishop of Rome.
		The capital city of the Vatican State, which includes the principle territory of the surrounding city of Rome, was recognized as sovereign land of the Roman Catholic Church by the Lateran Treaty.
	biblelight.net /vatican.htm (12168 words)

	Vatican City : VA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vatican City : VA Vatican City : VA Vatican City : VA The State of the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, a landlocked enclave surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy.
		The Vatican is located upon the Vatican Hill (Vaticanus Mons), whose name antedates Christianity.
		The legal system is based on canon, or ecclesiastical, law; if canon law isn't applicable, the laws of the city of Rome apply.
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	Vatican City State - Holy See - Status Civitatis Vaticanæ - Stato della Città del Vaticano
		The Vatican City State, sovereign and independent, are the remnants of the papal states that in 1859 comprised an area of some 17 000 sq mi (about 44 000 sq km).
		Popes in their secular role ruled much of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy.
		Disputes between a series of "prisoner" popes and Italy were resolved in 1929 by three Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/vatican.htm (959 words)

	Cube247 - The Daily Edge :: Politics of the Vatican City (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As formally re-defined in 1929, after the Concordato between Vatican and Italy, to administer properties belonging to the Holy See in Rome, the State of the Vatican City is recognized under international law and enters into international agreements.
		The Vatican City maintains the Swiss Guards, a voluntary military force, as well as a modern security corps (famous for its uniforms, traditionally said to have been designed by Michelangelo).
		Radio Vatican, the official radio station, is one of the most influential in Europe and has a worldwide coverage.
	cube247.myblogsite.com /blog/_archives/2005/4/2/548011.html (1274 words)

	Catholic News Service - Vatican
		The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said the July 2 liberation of 15 hostages from the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is also "a sign of hope" for peace in a country that has been plagued by rebel violence for decades.
		The Vatican's doctrinal congregation has decreed formally that a woman who attempts to be ordained a Catholic priest and the person attempting to ordain her are automatically excommunicated.
		Vatican officials said the people who received Communion while kneeling at the May 22 Mass outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran highlighted the solemnity of the feast and a connection to Mass practices in the past.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/vatican/vatican.htm (10916 words)

	Military Of Holy See (Vatican City)
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