Vatican City

Vatican City

Vatican City ranks 216th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kiribati, Guam, and Comoros. 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 Benedict XVI. 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 within Rome, Italy. It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity under international law, which maintains the city-state's temporal power and governance, diplomatic, and spiritual independence. The Vatican is also a metonym for the pope, Holy See, and Roman Curia. Read more on Wikipedia