[T]he papal states were extinguished by invasion in 1870 and the Vatican was created by fascist Italy in 1929 when Mussolini endowed this tiny enclave — 0.17 of a square mile containing 900 Catholic bureaucrats — with "sovereignty in the international field ... in conformity with its traditions and the exigencies of its mission in the world."Put the pope in the [prisoner's] dock — Grauniad
The notion that statehood can be created by another country's unilateral declaration is risible ...
Earlier: Lover's knots
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