Papal States

基本解释

President Bush has welcomed Pope Benedict on his first papal visit to the United States during a joyous ceremony on the White House lawn.
美国总统布什在白宫南草坪欢庆仪式上欢迎教皇本笃第一次以罗马教皇身份访问美国。
Towards the 15th century there were among the city-states five main ones—the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence and Venice, the papal states and the kingdom of Venice.
15世纪的时候，五个最有名的国家从这些城市国家中涌现出来，它们是米兰领地、佛罗伦萨共和国、威尼斯城市共和国、教皇属下的国家和威尼斯王国。
Pope Benedict arrived at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington having directly addressed one of the toughest issues facing him during his first papal visit to the United States.
教皇本尼迪克特抵达华盛顿郊外的安德鲁斯空军基地，直接处理他作为教皇对美国的第一次访问所面临的一个最棘手的问题。

The territory of the former papal states is not even the most developed or law-abiding part of Italy.
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Strongholds of American Catholicism like Boston have been especially hard-hit—and in contrast to previous papal visits to the United States, Boston is a rather glaring omission from Benedict's itinerary.
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the temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 ad until the unification of Italy in 1870 (Also called States of the Church)