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I'm aware of Mount Athos, a monastic state, but am curious about something slightly different. Is it possible, presumably with a POD before 1453, to have Constantinople be the focal point of a state ruled by the Ecumenical Patriarch in the same way that the Pope once ran the Patrimony of St. Peter and/or the Papal States in general?