How Vatican City came into existence?
The most amazing fact about Vatican City is that it is the smallest sovereign state in the world. Vatican City in spite of being a part of Italy strangely stands out as an independent state. It was not this way always; the Lateran Treaty established the state after a long series of disputes with the Italian government and gradually the king was taking over the authority but then the Lateran Treaty made Vatican City independent in 1929 and with that Roman Catholicism earned a special place for it in Italy. A concordat was again signed in the year 1984 between the Holy See (Vatican City) and Rome and this time there were certain modifications and alterations that were done to the previous treaty signed. The modifications that were given way were regarding Roman Catholicism being the state religion of Italy. Italy was given religious freedom, though the papal influence was quite strong and the American state established diplomatic relationship with the Vatican City, not to incite and invi
