States of the Church
Britishplural noun
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He made his brother Joseph king of Spain, gave Naples to his brother-in-law, Murat, and soon afterwards annexed the States of the Church, in Italy, to France, abolishing the temporal sovereignty of the Pope.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
The Pope, a bitter enemy to the King of France, sent for the chevalier, and tried to persuade him to renounce the service of King Louis for that of the States of the Church.
From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Greene, Frances Nimmo
No wonder if he did justice on the pretended moral order which Piedmont said it had come to restore in the States of the Church.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
He had nothing to do with the subterranean forces at work in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in the States of the Church, and in truth all over the Peninsula.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John
I was born in the small city of S————, in the States of the Church, not far from the Neapolitan frontier.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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