Vatican City

Vatican City

Vatican City ranks 221st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Solomon Islands, Guam, and Åland Islands. Memorable people born in present day Vatican City include Robert Bellarmine, Lucius Junius Brutus, and Horatius Cocles. Memorable people who died in Vatican City include Saint Peter, Pope John Paul II, and Pope John Paul I. Vatican City has been the birth place of many politicians, and physicians and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians.

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave surrounded by, and historically a part of, Rome, Italy. It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, which is itself a sovereign entity under international law, maintaining the city-state's temporal power, governance, diplomatic, and spiritual independence. The Vatican is also a metonym for the pope, the Holy See, and the Roman Curia. Read more on Wikipedia