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Papal State
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Proper noun
en proper noun form the Papal State
en Papal States
en 1968 w:William J. Bouwsma Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation 81 In this war Sixtus IV had been allied with Venice; but, the conflict going badly in the Papal State, he suddenly made a separate peace
en 1974 P. J. Jones The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State: A Political History 92 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nmsTtm2-U1QC&pg=PA92 In later retrospect, indeed, the middle decades of the fourteenth century may be seen to foreshadow a radical change in the balance of power within the Papal State,