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Your answer was: 1852. |
Answer: The Papal States issued their first postage stamps in 1852. 2002 celebrated the 150th anniversary of Vatican City stamps. But .... what were the Papal States? Officially the State of the Church were territories in the Italian Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope from the eighth century until 1870. They were among the major states of Italy until the Italian Peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. These holdings were considered to be a manifestation of the temporal power of the pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy. The territories were also referred to variously as the State(s) of the Church, the Pontifical States, the Ecclesiastical States, or the Roman States. By 1861, much of the Papal States’ territory had been conquered by the Kingdom of Italy. Only Lazio, including Rome, remained under the Pope’s temporal control. In 1870, the pope lost Lazio and Rome and had no physical territory at all, not even the Vatican. Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ended the crisis between unified Italy and the Holy See by signing the Lateran Treaty in 1929, thus granting the Vatican City State sovereignty. On August 1, 1929, Vatican City issued its first postage stamps as an independent nation. 'Vatican Postage - 150th Anniversary' 
 Vatican Postage - 150th Anniversary Appian Way & the First Papal States Stamp Cassian Way & the Last Issue of the Papal States 19th Century Rome & First Vatican City Stamp Circular Stamp is the Courtyard of Palazzo Madama in Rome 1221-1224 (2002) |
