A video on the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) would be very interesting. The organization began over 900 years ago during the Crusades. It still exists today as an international charity.
Short answer: For a time Garibaldi had to take refuge in San Marino and for their hospitality the San Marinese asked Garibaldi to make sure San Marino wouldn't get annexed, Garibaldi eventually convinced the king to not annex San Marino
@Amoury considering: institutional continuity at least from mid 1200s (the Regency) or even XI century (the Arringo) Constitutional laws dating back to 1600 First mention of a independent monastic community in late VI century (ok that's cheating, yet still more relevant than the foundation myth)
Fact about San Marino: during the covid19 pandemic they had different rules so some people used to go to San Marino for dinner or staying overnight in hotels, at that time restaurants were closed in the evening in Italy.
@@mihran79 politicians were cowards. Minister of tourism had dinner with a novax influencer because "freedoms and shit " Minister of healthcare was found breaching lockdown with friends who improvised a party. Meanwhile people were dying and those who lives got their lungs ruined for ever.
Went to a Catholic school and didn't get to learn this. I mean this topic itself can take a whole semester but is condensed into less than a 20min video. Thank you!
Very interesting video explaining one of the most interesting countries in the world! Awesome! Would it be possible to do a video on royal or presidential standards?
The EU gives Italy the number of euros that can be produced. Italy gives part of it to the Vatican. The Vatican's euro coins are often collected and not used as currency. But officially you can pay with it all over Europe.
I'm Italian and it's not so inusual to be given a Vatican coin when you buy things. Fun fact from my personal experience: I only found 50 cents! Never 1€, 2€, 20 cents etc.
I'm from Rome and I could get three coins, I gave two of them to friends the third paying a car parking (I said "it's a Vatican coin, it's rare!). I saw on internet that people sell them, I gave my (non Roman) friends for free. All them were of € 0,50. Two of Benedict XVI the other of Francis. By the way, never seen 1 or 2 €.
Slight chronological mistake at 2.30 : Caligula built a Circus on the Ager Vaticanus and erected the obelisk BEFORE Nero , the Great Fire of 64 AD and the execution of Saint Peter.
In the days of Charlemagne it was difficult to rule such a large area. The fastest way to send a message was a messenger with a horse. King Charlemagne traveled the country and made decisions where he was. But it was customary at the time that local governors had their own power. The Vatican has significantly more men than women in the population, and the population is very old. There is practically no birth rate.
Nicely done! I wasn't aware (or maybe I had been aware before and forgot) that they had their own Euro designs like the other member countries. Back when they used the Italian Lira I don't think they had any of their own bills or coinage. However as you stated they certainly have their own postal service. The first trip I made to Italy (1992) it was recommended that we mail postcards and anything else we wanted to send back to the US, from the Vatican because their processing was much faster than Italy's. I wanted to test this out so I mailed most everything from the Vatican and sent 1 postcard from Rome. The Vatican was indeed much more efficient. I wonder if it is still that way?
Actually, the Vatican (like Andorra, Monaco and San Marino) is not in the Eurozone. It has special agreements with both the EU and Italy, where the EU allows it to use the Euro as main currency, and Italy gifts it a tiny fraction of its "quota of mintable coins" for every given year.
Past participle of 'seek' is 'sought,' HRE only ever ruled part of Catholic Christendom and audio at about fifteen mins gives the Donation of Pepin happening at 1756. To be clear loved the vid.
He left out a bit too much stuff . Like the fact that for a long time the Pope was elected by Roman citizens from the Roman Empire to the half of the medieval ages.
Mount Athos is a soveriegn state made up of Orthodox monasteries in Greece, but because they are all monks Greece basically handles its limited foreign policy
Well something that many people tend to forget is that there was never an empire called Byzantine, it was the roman empire, but it just changed capital and religion. Rome was not conquered by the 'byzantines' because they were technically the same empire, the roman empire that later was divided between two thrones the western roman empire and the eastern roman empire. Until 1054 there wasn't a Catholic church or orthodox church, it was just one church united as christianity. It was just the Bishop of Rome, the Bishop of New Rome, Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, the Bishop of Jerusalem etc.
Hate to be the pedant but Nero became emperor after Claudius, who himself had succeeded Caligula. So Caligula couldn't have built gardens (2:29) on the Vatican hill after Nero's persecution of Christians as he was dead for two decades.
I liked this format! Also the content was very interesting as usual. In the USA, the schools I went to at least, they taught about the history of the Papal States briefly, but not in this much detail.
I liked how you didn't talk about St Peter at the beginning. Too many people tend to take for granted what Catholics believe about the origins of the papacy.
Fairly accurate explanation. Just two items to correct, you mentioned that St. Peter was a "supposed apostle of Jesus" and also the "supposed tomb of St. Peter". There is overwhelming evidence for both. Especially archeological evidence uncovered in the 20th century for the tomb of St. Peter. I still gave a thumbs up though.
The Vatican state has not 44 hectares but 560 hectares , I explain why : - Vatican city proper following recent measurements is 47 hectares The state has dependencies inside Rome ( " intra muros") : a lot of real estate ( buildings churches, basilicas like St.John Lateran) and the Catacombs. They all are under Vatican administration. Outside Rome ( " extra muros" ): the vast Castelgandolfo Papal estate and the Radio Vatican grounds . So there are dozens of Vatican enclaves in Italy.
I didn't even know until recently that "The Papal States" had existed and that Italy as a country hadn't existed as a united country until 1870. I knew that Popes had ruled parts of Europe and there was the whole Pope/King dynamic but I didn't know the specifics. For example I knew that Italy had granted statehood to Vatican City but I didn't know that it was only returning a fraction of the area that had been taken away militarily. It does seem to be seen by The Catholic Church as a blessing in disguise though.
thats the reason of why every latin american country have 5 government entities... the mayor, the governor, the president, the king of spain (head of the spanish language) and the vatican pope (head of the catholic church)
@@o_tartaruga of course... but i dont know if portugal have a head of the portuguese language... in spain is our king... he is the boss of the real academia de la lengua española.
0:52 Do other religious leaders get their own souvereign state? Well, sort of. You got Iran of course, and Afghanistan now, and historically you also had Tibet, but the Dalai Lama is ousted there. The English monarch is also the head of the Anglican Church, so I guess that one counts as well. And then you have Israël, which officially doesn’t have a state religion (if I am correct), but kinda does.
The King of England is only the Head of the Church of England but the government of the Church of England is run by the Archbishop of Catenbury not King Charles... The State of Israel is not ruled by a priest, the president of Iran is a priest but not a King, the Dalai Lama is not a King in Tibet.
The headquarters of Catholicism is technically in the Cathedral of St. John in Lateran where the Pope's cathedra (≈throne) is located, not in the Vatican. St. Peter's basilica is just a big church.
yet the Holy See operates in the Apostolic Palace INSIDE the Vatican St. John is, as you said, the Cathedral, the official seat of the Diocese of Rome which happens to be the Pope
It's actually clever for the holly see to just be an observer with no vote in th UN, it gives them ample sovereignty recognition without the risk of polemic voting against other nations
Will actually practically there was an sovereign state of Islam which is the caliphate of umayyad and abbasid empires and the caliphate is the religious ruler of the Muslims
0:50 isn't the reason why Islam doesn't have a leader like Catholicism does is because, well, it did? The Ottoman leaders held the title of Caliph, which upon its collapse wasn't transferred to any successful claimant.
a very interesting video, but i think you got wrong some infos about the political system of the vatican city state at the end of the video. you mentioned the pontifical commission, but mixed it with the secretariat of state and the apostolic signatura. the state has this (legistative and executive) pontifical commission whose president (a cardinal) is kind of the chief executive of vatican city (whose head of state is the pope). the secretary of state, on the other hand, is the pope's "prime minister" in his primary capacity as head of the church. as to the apostolic signatura, it's one of the main tribunals of the holy see, while the vatican city state has a three-tier judicial system, with a tribunal, a court of appeal and a court of cassation (supreme court).
Describing St. Peter as "supposed" is odd. There are tons of clear historical evidence from his era that document that he was a disciple of Jesus and went to Rome (though the upsidedown crucifixion is likely apocraphyl)
I researched the size of Vatican state and I m in a quandary : are the Papal properties outside the Vatican, that are quite sizeable ( Castelgandofo, Radio Vatican grounds outside Rome, prime real estate and the Catacombs inside Rome) part of the Vatican state or not. I still didn't find a satisfactory answer.
As a first timer trying to understand, this provided more questions than answers for me. Too much info too fast. Might consider doing separate videos for each chapter to fill in the holes and give more explanation & history?
Nice video! However, you should really check the pronunciation of the places before recording. You’ve got most of the names wrongly. LeGnano, RomaGna, BoloGna, Marsh (?)... It doesn’t take that much and it would add a lot.
What does "point forty-four" mean? The "point means that what follows is less than 1. "Forty-four" means four tens and four units. "Point four four" means four one-tenths and four one-hundredths. Plainly the latter is correct and the former means nothing. It would have also been correct to say "forty-four one-hundredths". Some may say that his splitting hairs, but numbers like this are accurate to a hair-splitting degree.
The end of papal states for years: 1859, region "Legazioni" lost. 1860, regions Umbria and Marche, lost. 1870, region Latium lost. Rebuilding of the papal state in minuscule form, 1929.🇻🇦
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Roman Empire never adopted Catholicism as it's official religion. When Constantine made it official, it was what we now call the Orthodox church (based in Constantinople) and not catholicism. The western church was an autocephalous region in Orthodoxy, as was the Syrian Church, the Jerusalem church the Alexandrian church, and so on. The western church was subordinate to Orthodoxy as a whole, and equal to the other autocephalous regions. The western church broke fellowship with orthodoxy in the 1050s AD, at which point what we know as "Catholicism" began, though this was long after the Roman Empire had fallen. To be clear, the Roman Church was well established by the end of the first century AD, but it wasn't Catholic until the 11th century. So (if I remember my college history classes correctly) the Empire was Orthodox, and Catholicism was basically medieval. Or so I recall. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
TheFlagandAnthemGuy well, not "in the beginning." Prior to orthodoxy there were dozens of different churches that differed in theology and practice and so on, of which five were super prominent and the others were also-rans. Orthodoxy standardized theology and placed it all under one authority and hierarchy. It did allow for differences in local customs now, so the Roman customs has always been slightly different than say the Jerusalem customs, or the Alexandrian customs. When the Roman church broke with orthodoxy in the 11th century, that is one "Catholicism" begins in anything like a modern sense. In other words, for about 700 years their Catholicism was part of orthodoxy, but orthodoxy was never part of Catholicism.
One quick correction. Other religions do have political entities similar to the Vatican. Israel is an official Jewish state which welcomes all Jews even if they are not citizens. Islam has a concept called the caliph or caliphate, but it waxes and wanes, as of now Saudi is the protector of Mecca and recognized by Sunni's as an official entity representing Islam. In India you have the region of Sikhim, but it's not an official country and you have the Brahman priesthood which hold large sway in Indian religion and politics. In Christianity you had official Orthodox churches tied to a particular country, and Byzantines were a religious monarchy similar to the Vaticans. It's not unusual for a religion to have some recognition as a political entity, the Catholic church is unusual in that it is a tiny entity representing a billion people.
Vatican's income comes from real estate management, commercial investments, and self-generated services. The Vatican's real estate includes 60 churches in Rome, universities, hospitals, and other institutions. and tours, stamps, coins, and publications. Says the google ai overview
He got 2 things wrong in this video: 0:44 he put the wrong flag, the inside of the crown is not meant to be red, it is supposed to be white. That was a mistake made by someone at Wikipedia, and that Israel is a country built for all the Jews to live.
I wonder if the Vatican has parking or other traffic laws. Do people get parking tickets? Might be fun to get a parking ticket and go to Vatican traffic court just for giggles.
The closest thing to what could be called a sovereign country for a non-Catholic religion is the Athonite State which has a considerable degree of autonomy from Greece.
I think like saudi arabia is considered the muslim countries religious head as its the place where islam originated , same goes for jews which is israel and india is hinduism ,whereas in europe before it was holy roman empire but now their is no country which exist for acting like head for the Christians therefore i guess vatican city came to existence.
Well outside of Mecca Saudi Arabia is not the Sovereign state of Islam. True it there are multiple holy sights outside of Saudi Arabia. And there are 2 main Sects of Islam. Shia and Sunni that have different holy sights.
@@covenawhite4855 In Mecca there are specific rules for Muslims (non-Muslims are not allowed in the city), but otherwise it is within the country of Saudi Arabia which is not a theocratic state like the Vatican. If this were true, then the UK should instead be defined as such since the Queen is also the head of the Anglican Church. The King of SA is not the head of Islam as there is no such thing, he is the self-declared Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca, site of the Kaaba, and Medina, where the Prophet of Islam is buried, but nothing more. The highest intellectual authority in Islam is considered Al-Azhar University in Cairo Egypt, but it basically depends on who Muslims decide to listen to, so there is no real organization such as a Church. The only true spiritual leader remains Prophet Muhammad and Allah (God) above all.
you’re incorrect in suggesting that the earliest christian church was synonymous with the roman catholic church today. in those times, there was only one Church. the church we now know as the roman catholic church only came into being when protestantism did, as it then became necessary for the non-protestant church in the west to actually define itself
The church of the Roman era was merely called the Catholic Church. This has been in use since about 100AD. One of the early Church fathers back in 110AD even called it the Catholic Church and the last emperor who ruled both halfs of the Empire and who made the Church the sole religion of the empire also called it The Catholic Church. This Church had 5 ecclesiastical centres in Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople. All the bishops accepted the primacy of the Bishop of Rome What they disagreed upon was how that primacy was understood. During the East-West schism, when the churches of the East broke away, they adopted the word, Orthodox but still use Catholic - hence they are the Orthodox Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church is called such by those outside the Church. The church in Rome still only calls itself The Catholic Church. This church is made up of 24 sovereign churches - the Latin church and 23 other eastern orthodox catholic churches, all in communion with each other, all who accept the Bishop of Rome as their leader.
I’m guessing English is not your native language because you made one of the classic mistakes that my English students in France did. “Seek” is an irregular verb so the past participle would be “sought” instead of “seeked.” Your accent is so minimal though I can’t even place where you’re from!
@@diogorodrigues747 I had an Uber driver in Lisbon tell me that the reason Portuguese have such little accents with English is because they watch TV and movies with subtitles instead of dubbed.
@@knockeledup Actually the only ones that have little to no accent in English are the ones that are constantly in contact with English people, because the majority of Portuguese fluent English speakers speak with a strong accent, very easy to spot. You just have to go outside of Downtown Lisbon or Porto...
@@diogorodrigues747 In my opinion, the European countries where English is spoken with almost no accent would be in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). I don’t know if it’s because they start learning English at such a young age or what, but they’re excellent!
Are there any other specific countries you'd want me to make a video about?
Western Sahara. Officially not a country but very relevant geopolitically due to the rivalry between Morroco and Algeria.
Maybe a video on expo like how there is expo 2020 in Dubai,UAE and before this it was in Milan, Italy
how about your home country?
San Marino.
San Marino
Congratulations in putting together such a complex history in under 20 minutes.
Thank you!
@@General.Knowledge it taught me so much, and has given pointers to read in depth for more details.
The editing is such gold compared to the usual
Thanks! That first minute especially took a while to make
The Fact that a Country is Smaller then a Building Proves that absolutely anything can Be a Country.
Only if the neighbour from whom they got independence agrees though.
@@leadharsh0616 Yes lol, was mainly a joke but yeah.
@@leadharsh0616 yeah u do that by having the same religion.
Like Petoria on Family Guy. Granted that didn't end well.
There actually a few sovereign countries within other countries but they don't own much territory or have much real power
A video on the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) would be very interesting. The organization began over 900 years ago during the Crusades. It still exists today as an international charity.
Indeed! Waiting for it....!!
And has sovereign status despite not being a state
..and another on the monastic community/republic of mount athos, in greece
and yet another on andorra, where one of the co-princes is a bishop, therefore religiously subordinate to another head of state, the pope.
Why was San Marino left independent during the unification of Italy, that's a new video I would like to watch.
Short answer:
For a time Garibaldi had to take refuge in San Marino and for their hospitality the San Marinese asked Garibaldi to make sure San Marino wouldn't get annexed, Garibaldi eventually convinced the king to not annex San Marino
Our ancestors were smarter...
@Amoury considering:
institutional continuity at least from mid 1200s (the Regency) or even XI century (the Arringo)
Constitutional laws dating back to 1600
First mention of a independent monastic community in late VI century (ok that's cheating, yet still more relevant than the foundation myth)
Fact about San Marino: during the covid19 pandemic they had different rules so some people used to go to San Marino for dinner or staying overnight in hotels, at that time restaurants were closed in the evening in Italy.
@@mihran79 politicians were cowards. Minister of tourism had dinner with a novax influencer because "freedoms and shit "
Minister of healthcare was found breaching lockdown with friends who improvised a party.
Meanwhile people were dying and those who lives got their lungs ruined for ever.
Went to a Catholic school and didn't get to learn this. I mean this topic itself can take a whole semester but is condensed into less than a 20min video. Thank you!
I'm glad you liked it!
Very interesting video explaining one of the most interesting countries in the world! Awesome!
Would it be possible to do a video on royal or presidential standards?
Didn't know Vatican issues its own euros. Never saw a papal coin but I use euros on a daily basis.
The number of coins minted is very small and the vast majority is sold at collectors. So a very small number is in actual circulation.
The EU gives Italy the number of euros that can be produced. Italy gives part of it to the Vatican.
The Vatican's euro coins are often collected and not used as currency. But officially you can pay with it all over Europe.
I'm Italian and it's not so inusual to be given a Vatican coin when you buy things. Fun fact from my personal experience: I only found 50 cents! Never 1€, 2€, 20 cents etc.
I'm from Rome and I could get three coins, I gave two of them to friends the third paying a car parking (I said "it's a Vatican coin, it's rare!). I saw on internet that people sell them, I gave my (non Roman) friends for free. All them were of € 0,50. Two of Benedict XVI the other of Francis. By the way, never seen 1 or 2 €.
I have seen a Vatican 2€ coin once
Slight chronological mistake at 2.30 : Caligula built a Circus on the Ager Vaticanus and erected the obelisk BEFORE Nero , the Great Fire of 64 AD and the execution of Saint Peter.
The later maps made me think of an awesome video idea, especially for the channel (if you want it): San Marino, the oldest republic in the world!
Dito.
Great idea!
@@General.Knowledge I'm from Rimini, the closest Italian city to San Marino, if you need pictures or information you can hit me up!
@@General.Knowledge Sammarinese here.
Feel free to ask.
I don't know how long this video took to make but the time and effort invested shows. Great video!
Thank you!
In the days of Charlemagne it was difficult to rule such a large area. The fastest way to send a message was a messenger with a horse. King Charlemagne traveled the country and made decisions where he was. But it was customary at the time that local governors had their own power.
The Vatican has significantly more men than women in the population, and the population is very old. There is practically no birth rate.
Great video! It would be good to explain the dynamic between the Holy See/Vatican/pope and the Eastern Roman Empire
Nicely done! I wasn't aware (or maybe I had been aware before and forgot) that they had their own Euro designs like the other member countries. Back when they used the Italian Lira I don't think they had any of their own bills or coinage. However as you stated they certainly have their own postal service. The first trip I made to Italy (1992) it was recommended that we mail postcards and anything else we wanted to send back to the US, from the Vatican because their processing was much faster than Italy's. I wanted to test this out so I mailed most everything from the Vatican and sent 1 postcard from Rome. The Vatican was indeed much more efficient. I wonder if it is still that way?
Congrats! Great video!
Actually, the Vatican (like Andorra, Monaco and San Marino) is not in the Eurozone.
It has special agreements with both the EU and Italy, where the EU allows it to use the Euro as main currency, and Italy gifts it a tiny fraction of its "quota of mintable coins" for every given year.
Some if the basilicas in Rime are also part of the Vatican and regarded as extraterritorial by Italy & the Holy See.
Remember: St. Peter is not a Cathedral, that's the Lateran Basilica
Past participle of 'seek' is 'sought,' HRE only ever ruled part of Catholic Christendom and audio at about fifteen mins gives the Donation of Pepin happening at 1756. To be clear loved the vid.
Also, Legnano is pronounced like Leñano
The cgp grey video in this is brilliant and explains it really well 👌
WOW Thanks for the information, very informative, God bless 🙂
Great work! That was the best explanation of the Papal States I have ever heard!
Sovereign Order of Malta next, please:-)
Added it to my list!
@@General.Knowledge obrigado!
This one is a great video.
Long live Vatikan, Big ❤️ from Croatia 🇭🇷
As a Catholic thank you for making this video, not a lot of easy information on this topic
He left out a bit too much stuff . Like the fact that for a long time the Pope was elected by Roman citizens from the Roman Empire to the half of the medieval ages.
Mount Athos is a soveriegn state made up of Orthodox monasteries in Greece, but because they are all monks Greece basically handles its limited foreign policy
Well something that many people tend to forget is that there was never an empire called Byzantine, it was the roman empire, but it just changed capital and religion. Rome was not conquered by the 'byzantines' because they were technically the same empire, the roman empire that later was divided between two thrones the western roman empire and the eastern roman empire. Until 1054 there wasn't a Catholic church or orthodox church, it was just one church united as christianity. It was just the Bishop of Rome, the Bishop of New Rome, Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, the Bishop of Jerusalem etc.
Hate to be the pedant but Nero became emperor after Claudius, who himself had succeeded Caligula. So Caligula couldn't have built gardens (2:29) on the Vatican hill after Nero's persecution of Christians as he was dead for two decades.
also caligula was crazy
I liked this format! Also the content was very interesting as usual. In the USA, the schools I went to at least, they taught about the history of the Papal States briefly, but not in this much detail.
It was a beautiful place to visit. Wish I had more time to wander the place!
nicely done sir, an awesome breakdown of such a deep topic
Such an amazing video.
Nice history 😊
Dr.tyrone of Chester PA
Thank you :D
This was fascinating! Thank you!
10:40 here we go. I knew it was only a matter of time. 🇵🇹
I like your videos
Thanks! :)
I liked how you didn't talk about St Peter at the beginning. Too many people tend to take for granted what Catholics believe about the origins of the papacy.
Awesome video!!!
Fairly accurate explanation. Just two items to correct, you mentioned that St. Peter was a "supposed apostle of Jesus" and also the "supposed tomb of St. Peter". There is overwhelming evidence for both. Especially archeological evidence uncovered in the 20th century for the tomb of St. Peter. I still gave a thumbs up though.
It was so entertaining hearing italian placenames pronounced by a Portuguese (no offence intended, i loved every second of the video)
The Vatican state has not 44 hectares but 560 hectares , I explain why :
- Vatican city proper following recent measurements is 47 hectares
The state has dependencies inside Rome ( " intra muros") : a lot of real estate ( buildings churches, basilicas like St.John Lateran) and the Catacombs. They all are under Vatican administration.
Outside Rome ( " extra muros" ): the vast Castelgandolfo Papal estate and the Radio Vatican grounds .
So there are dozens of Vatican enclaves in Italy.
Could you make a video about electoral systems? I think it's a perfect topic to be researched and explained by you! Thank you!🙏
I didn't even know until recently that "The Papal States" had existed and that Italy as a country hadn't existed as a united country until 1870. I knew that Popes had ruled parts of Europe and there was the whole Pope/King dynamic but I didn't know the specifics. For example I knew that Italy had granted statehood to Vatican City but I didn't know that it was only returning a fraction of the area that had been taken away militarily. It does seem to be seen by The Catholic Church as a blessing in disguise though.
thats the reason of why every latin american country have 5 government entities...
the mayor, the governor, the president, the king of spain (head of the spanish language) and the vatican pope (head of the catholic church)
Brazil is a latin american country but speak portuguese so we don't have the king of spain.
@@o_tartaruga of course... but i dont know if portugal have a head of the portuguese language... in spain is our king... he is the boss of the real academia de la lengua española.
Absolutely wrong. We don't give a fuck about your king nor the pope.
0:52 Do other religious leaders get their own souvereign state?
Well, sort of. You got Iran of course, and Afghanistan now, and historically you also had Tibet, but the Dalai Lama is ousted there. The English monarch is also the head of the Anglican Church, so I guess that one counts as well.
And then you have Israël, which officially doesn’t have a state religion (if I am correct), but kinda does.
The King of England is only the Head of the Church of England but the government of the Church of England is run by the Archbishop of Catenbury not King Charles... The State of Israel is not ruled by a priest, the president of Iran is a priest but not a King, the Dalai Lama is not a King in Tibet.
Romagna is not Romag-na but Romanha. And Marche is like Marke. Good video btw
Mi sanguinavao le orecchie ogni volta che pronunciava parole italiane dio bò
@@lucaesposito6896 idem ahah
@@lucaesposito6896 e pensare che col latino ci aveva preso
The headquarters of Catholicism is technically in the Cathedral of St. John in Lateran where the Pope's cathedra (≈throne) is located, not in the Vatican. St. Peter's basilica is just a big church.
yet the Holy See operates in the Apostolic Palace INSIDE the Vatican
St. John is, as you said, the Cathedral, the official seat of the Diocese of Rome which happens to be the Pope
Great!
My favourite Pope fact is that there is an average of two Popes per square km in Vatican City
The smallest is the sovering military order of malta (SMO Malta)
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta
It has no land area. It can't be the smallest country if it has no land to begin with.
It's actually clever for the holly see to just be an observer with no vote in th UN, it gives them ample sovereignty recognition without the risk of polemic voting against other nations
Great video! Just a little note 'marche' is pronounced 'Marke' ♡
Will actually practically there was an sovereign state of Islam which is the caliphate of umayyad and abbasid empires and the caliphate is the religious ruler of the Muslims
Big fan bro
0:50 isn't the reason why Islam doesn't have a leader like Catholicism does is because, well, it did? The Ottoman leaders held the title of Caliph, which upon its collapse wasn't transferred to any successful claimant.
New subsriber
Love from one of the most densely populated country 💖
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Also the shortest national railway at 0.68km
Where are the timestamps ??
a very interesting video, but i think you got wrong some infos about the political system of the vatican city state at the end of the video. you mentioned the pontifical commission, but mixed it with the secretariat of state and the apostolic signatura. the state has this (legistative and executive) pontifical commission whose president (a cardinal) is kind of the chief executive of vatican city (whose head of state is the pope). the secretary of state, on the other hand, is the pope's "prime minister" in his primary capacity as head of the church. as to the apostolic signatura, it's one of the main tribunals of the holy see, while the vatican city state has a three-tier judicial system, with a tribunal, a court of appeal and a court of cassation (supreme court).
Can you do a video on the principality of Sealand as well as the sovereign military order of malta
2:30 Wasn't Caligula emperor before Nero?
Describing St. Peter as "supposed" is odd. There are tons of clear historical evidence from his era that document that he was a disciple of Jesus and went to Rome (though the upsidedown crucifixion is likely apocraphyl)
That hasn't been proven so the word "supposed" is used perfectly
@@Jord_ii I don't think you know what 'proven' is.
It's not like he left something where he claimed that title though
Weird that there are two catholic organisations that have observer status with the UN
I researched the size of Vatican state and I m in a quandary : are the Papal properties outside the Vatican, that are quite sizeable ( Castelgandofo, Radio Vatican grounds outside Rome, prime real estate and the Catacombs inside Rome) part of the Vatican state or not. I still didn't find a satisfactory answer.
They are granted extraterritorial status, just like embassies.
@@FlagAnthem so why not add their areas to the Vatican's total?
@@towaritch Because they're owned by Italy. It's just that Italy chooses not to apply Italian laws there.
2:26 Supposed?
The protestants don't agree.
Hi, why don't you mentioned that the Lateran treaty was signed by Mussolini. Instead you said "the Italian regime of the time"
What about Iran? 00:50
Iran is Islamic. Their symbol is in the middle.
It actually exists in exchange for supporting Mussolini, right?
right
does anyone know any good books on this topic?
Thanks for the video. Just wanted to remind you that rhe correct grammar is “sought” not “seeked”
"Roma Felix, Roma Nobilis"
Viva a Santa Sé!
viva la santa sede.
As a first timer trying to understand, this provided more questions than answers for me. Too much info too fast. Might consider doing separate videos for each chapter to fill in the holes and give more explanation & history?
Monaco next, please?!!!
Do Andorra Next
Nice video! However, you should really check the pronunciation of the places before recording. You’ve got most of the names wrongly. LeGnano, RomaGna, BoloGna, Marsh (?)... It doesn’t take that much and it would add a lot.
What does "point forty-four" mean? The "point means that what follows is less than 1. "Forty-four" means four tens and four units. "Point four four" means four one-tenths and four one-hundredths. Plainly the latter is correct and the former means nothing. It would have also been correct to say "forty-four one-hundredths". Some may say that his splitting hairs, but numbers like this are accurate to a hair-splitting degree.
Where the timestamps at?
Nice video! You forgot to mention that Napoleon took the pope hostage.
The end of papal states for years:
1859, region "Legazioni" lost.
1860, regions Umbria and Marche, lost.
1870, region Latium lost.
Rebuilding of the papal state in minuscule form, 1929.🇻🇦
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Roman Empire never adopted Catholicism as it's official religion. When Constantine made it official, it was what we now call the Orthodox church (based in Constantinople) and not catholicism. The western church was an autocephalous region in Orthodoxy, as was the Syrian Church, the Jerusalem church the Alexandrian church, and so on. The western church was subordinate to Orthodoxy as a whole, and equal to the other autocephalous regions. The western church broke fellowship with orthodoxy in the 1050s AD, at which point what we know as "Catholicism" began, though this was long after the Roman Empire had fallen. To be clear, the Roman Church was well established by the end of the first century AD, but it wasn't Catholic until the 11th century.
So (if I remember my college history classes correctly) the Empire was Orthodox, and Catholicism was basically medieval. Or so I recall. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Catholicism and Orthodoxy were interchangable at the beginning
TheFlagandAnthemGuy well, not "in the beginning." Prior to orthodoxy there were dozens of different churches that differed in theology and practice and so on, of which five were super prominent and the others were also-rans. Orthodoxy standardized theology and placed it all under one authority and hierarchy. It did allow for differences in local customs now, so the Roman customs has always been slightly different than say the Jerusalem customs, or the Alexandrian customs. When the Roman church broke with orthodoxy in the 11th century, that is one "Catholicism" begins in anything like a modern sense.
In other words, for about 700 years their Catholicism was part of orthodoxy, but orthodoxy was never part of Catholicism.
The Roman empire was orthodox for most of it's rule
sought, not seeked
One quick correction. Other religions do have political entities similar to the Vatican. Israel is an official Jewish state which welcomes all Jews even if they are not citizens. Islam has a concept called the caliph or caliphate, but it waxes and wanes, as of now Saudi is the protector of Mecca and recognized by Sunni's as an official entity representing Islam. In India you have the region of Sikhim, but it's not an official country and you have the Brahman priesthood which hold large sway in Indian religion and politics. In Christianity you had official Orthodox churches tied to a particular country, and Byzantines were a religious monarchy similar to the Vaticans. It's not unusual for a religion to have some recognition as a political entity, the Catholic church is unusual in that it is a tiny entity representing a billion people.
Everything you mentioned above is not the same as the Pope.. The Pope is the King and High Priest.
A tiny nation that lives on the hand outs and donations of every Catholic Church on Planet Earth ? How do they generate income ?
Vatican's income comes from real estate management, commercial investments, and self-generated services. The Vatican's real estate includes 60 churches in Rome, universities, hospitals, and other institutions. and tours, stamps, coins, and publications. Says the google ai overview
Theofylactoi in Greek means "protected by God"
By coincidence or irony, I was the 666th view.
Normie
What software does he use
Long live the Pope! 🇻🇦✝️
He got 2 things wrong in this video: 0:44 he put the wrong flag, the inside of the crown is not meant to be red, it is supposed to be white. That was a mistake made by someone at Wikipedia, and that Israel is a country built for all the Jews to live.
I wonder if the Vatican has parking or other traffic laws. Do people get parking tickets? Might be fun to get a parking ticket and go to Vatican traffic court just for giggles.
Pass the Dutchie !!! 😊
(Musical Youth - 1982)
The closest thing to what could be called a sovereign country for a non-Catholic religion is the Athonite State which has a considerable degree of autonomy from Greece.
I think like saudi arabia is considered the muslim countries religious head as its the place where islam originated , same goes for jews which is israel and india is hinduism ,whereas in europe before it was holy roman empire but now their is no country which exist for acting like head for the Christians therefore i guess vatican city came to existence.
Nope, what you say is not correct.
Well outside of Mecca Saudi Arabia is not the Sovereign state of Islam.
True it there are multiple holy sights outside of Saudi Arabia. And there are 2 main Sects of Islam. Shia and Sunni that have different holy sights.
@@covenawhite4855 In Mecca there are specific rules for Muslims (non-Muslims are not allowed in the city), but otherwise it is within the country of Saudi Arabia which is not a theocratic state like the Vatican. If this were true, then the UK should instead be defined as such since the Queen is also the head of the Anglican Church.
The King of SA is not the head of Islam as there is no such thing, he is the self-declared Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca, site of the Kaaba, and Medina, where the Prophet of Islam is buried, but nothing more. The highest intellectual authority in Islam is considered Al-Azhar University in Cairo Egypt, but it basically depends on who Muslims decide to listen to, so there is no real organization such as a Church. The only true spiritual leader remains Prophet Muhammad and Allah (God) above all.
Oh ok
you’re incorrect in suggesting that the earliest christian church was synonymous with the roman catholic church today. in those times, there was only one Church. the church we now know as the roman catholic church only came into being when protestantism did, as it then became necessary for the non-protestant church in the west to actually define itself
It came into being after the schism with the orthodox church, not the one with the protestants.
I think u r missing like 1500 years of history
Thank you to those who noted the importance of the churches of the Christian east!
That’s kinda true.....I think it’s more complicated though
The church of the Roman era was merely called the Catholic Church. This has been in use since about 100AD.
One of the early Church fathers back in 110AD even called it the Catholic Church and the last emperor who ruled both halfs of the Empire and who made the Church the sole religion of the empire also called it The Catholic Church.
This Church had 5 ecclesiastical centres in Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople.
All the bishops accepted the primacy of the Bishop of Rome
What they disagreed upon was how that primacy was understood.
During the East-West schism, when the churches of the East broke away, they adopted the word, Orthodox but still use Catholic - hence they are the Orthodox Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church is called such by those outside the Church.
The church in Rome still only calls itself The Catholic Church.
This church is made up of 24 sovereign churches - the Latin church and 23 other eastern orthodox catholic churches, all in communion with each other, all who accept the Bishop of Rome as their leader.
I’m guessing English is not your native language because you made one of the classic mistakes that my English students in France did. “Seek” is an irregular verb so the past participle would be “sought” instead of “seeked.” Your accent is so minimal though I can’t even place where you’re from!
He is Portuguese...
@@diogorodrigues747 I had an Uber driver in Lisbon tell me that the reason Portuguese have such little accents with English is because they watch TV and movies with subtitles instead of dubbed.
@@knockeledup Actually the only ones that have little to no accent in English are the ones that are constantly in contact with English people, because the majority of Portuguese fluent English speakers speak with a strong accent, very easy to spot. You just have to go outside of Downtown Lisbon or Porto...
Because of the way he says German names, I think he is a Portuguese emigrant, and most emigrants lose their accents on English...
@@diogorodrigues747 In my opinion, the European countries where English is spoken with almost no accent would be in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). I don’t know if it’s because they start learning English at such a young age or what, but they’re excellent!
5:11 Sought
Hopefully we don't need religioud states in the future anymore