{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Papal States",
  "now": "vatican-city",
  "years": "756–1870",
  "id": "papal-states",
  "index": "c/vatican-city:756",
  "title": "Flag of the Papal States",
  "ratio": "1:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#ffcc00",
      "note": "Papal yellow."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Keys of Saint Peter."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Papal States (756–1870) were the direct temporal rule of the Pope over central Italy, beginning with the Donation of Pepin and ending with the Risorgimento\n - **Construction:** a gold swallowtail banner charged with the **Keys of Saint Peter** — the crossed silver and gold keys symbolising papal authority to bind and loose\n - The yellow-and-white colour pairing endures on today's Vatican City flag, the direct successor",
  "flag": "empires/papal-states.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Papal States",
    "officialName": "Stato della Chiesa",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- At their height the Papal States spanned from Rome across Umbria, the Marche, Romagna, and Latium\n - Annexed by the Kingdom of Italy in 1870 after the capture of Rome; the Pope remained a \"prisoner in the Vatican\" until the 1929 Lateran Treaty\n - Amounts to the second-longest continuously ruled European polity after San Marino",
  "_name": "Papal States",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "papal-states"
}