Vatikanstaten (latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; italienska: Stato della Città del Vaticano [12], i direkt översättning ”Vatikanstadens stat”) är en suverän mikrostat belägen som en enklav i den italienska huvudstaden Rom.Vatikanstaten upprättades 1929 genom Lateranfördraget, vilket gav påven och ledningen för den romersk-katolska kyrkan oberoende efter en mångårig konflikt ...

The Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State (Latin: Corps Gendarmerie Civitatis Vaticanae, Italian: Corpo della Gendarmeria dello Stato della Città del Vaticano) is the gendarmerie, or police and security force, of Vatican City and the extraterritorial properties of the Holy See.It was founded in 1816 as Corps of Gendarmes by Pope Pius VII, renamed the Central Security Office …

The Embassy of the United States of America in Baghdad is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Republic of Iraq.Ambassador Alina Romanowski is currently the Chief of Mission.. At 104 acres (42 ha), it is the largest embassy in the world; it is nearly as large as Vatican City. The embassy complex is about five times the size of the U.S. Embassy in …

Petty crimes per capita. The Vatican's extremely small size results in a few statistical oddities. There are 18 million visitors to the state each year, and the most common crime is petty theft — purse snatching, pick-pocketing and shoplifting — typically perpetrated and suffered by outsiders.. Based on a population of 455 in 1992, the 397 civil offences in that year represent a crime rate ...

Republikken San Marino (på italiensk: Repubblica di San Marino ) er verdens femtemindste land.Det er helt omsluttet af Italien og ligger mellem regionerne Emilia-Romagna og Marche, tæt ved den adriatiske kyst og Rimini.Oven på fjeldklippen Monte Titano ligger fæstningsværket La Guaita.San Marino er en af de ældste republikker i verden. . Den første forfatning er fra 1

The Vatican City national football team (Italian: Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano) is the football team that represents Vatican City under the control of the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, headquartered in the Vatican's Cortile di San Damaso. The Vatican City football association was founded in 1972. Its current president is Domenico Ruggerio.

Coat of arms of Vatican City; Adopted: 7 June 1929: Blazon: The Fundamental Law of Vatican City State describes the shield as chiavi decussate sormontate del Triregno in campo rosso (keys in saltire surmounted by the papal tiara on a red field) and depicts the keys as two, one silver in bend and one gold in bend sinister, interlaced at their intersection with a red cord.

The flag of Vatican City was adopted on 7 June 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating a new independent state governed by the Holy See.The Vatican City flag is modeled on the 1808 yellow and white flag of the earlier Papal States, to which a papal tiara and keys were later added. The Vatican (and the Holy See) also refers to it, …

History. The Vatican Museums trace their origin to one marble sculpture, purchased in the 16th century: Laocoön and His Sons was discovered on 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their …

Johanniterordenen er en international velgørende organisation, der har eksisteret siden 1100-tallet, og hvis erklærede formål er at hjælpe de syge og de svage mennesker ud fra et kristent grundlag.. Johanniterordenen er en af de store ridderordner fra korstogene, men hospitalet i Jerusalem, som den har sin oprindelse i, fandtes allerede inden det første korstog med det …