What is the largest viable area of land the Papal States can cover? I am putting this in pre-1900 because the Papal States would probobly reach thier zenith before 1900.
What is the largest viable area of land the Papal States can cover? I am putting this in pre-1900 because the Papal States would probobly reach thier zenith before 1900.
Well, the Pope tried for literally centuries to gain Sicily+Naples, so thats a priem canddiate. And then theres Corsica and Sardinia as well - and that would already be most of modern Italy then...
and Equador.
Um... what?
Ecuador was made, essentially, part of the Papal States sometime during the 1800s.
The largest it could possibly get is probably not limited. If the pope had won the struggle for supremacy with the HRE, it's conceivable that all Christendom could have fallen under the rule of the Church.
Ecuador was made, essentially, part of the Papal States sometime during the 1800s.
The largest it could possibly get is probably not limited. If the pope had won the struggle for supremacy with the HRE, it's conceivable that all Christendom could have fallen under the rule of the Church.
Socioeconomic domination by the Roman Catholic Church =/= Territory of the Papal States
Plug for a cool series: In The Time Patrol series, there are two alternate worlds viewed. In the first, Frederick II wins, and conquers the world; in the second, the Papacy creates a theocracy that finds itself losing a war to the Turks and Russians centuries later...
I said essentially.
Puppet state = close enough to being fully integrated.