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Lateran Treaty

Lateran Treaty

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A 1929 agreement that makes Vatican City an independent state
  • noun
  • /ˈleɪtərən ˈtriːti/
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  • The Lateran Treaty, signed in 1929, established Vatican City as a sovereign independent state.

Examples

  • All the Italian government has to do is renounce all parts of the Lateran Treaty.

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  • The sovereign status of the Vatican City State is beyond dispute, having been established as such by the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

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  • Italy recognized Vatican City as an independent entity through the Lateran Treaty in 1929.

  • According to the Lateran Treaty, Vatican City is considered a state with its own governance.

Synonyms

concordat
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  • Formal
1 9.9

An official agreement between a government and a church or between two governments

is a specific 1929 pact that recognized a new sovereign independent city state

Surface Forms

Lateran Treaty singular
Lateran Treaties plural

Morphology

Lateran + treaty

The headword combines a place name (Lateran) with 'treaty', so a learner who knows both constituents would readily infer it is an agreement associated with the Lateran. However, the specific historical content (the 1929 agreement recognizing Vatican City and the parties involved) is specialized factual knowledge and not predictable from the parts alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.

Etymology

The name Lateran Treaty comes from the Lateran Palace in Rome, where leaders signed the 1929 agreement. That agreement created Vatican City as an 'independent country', so Lateran Treaty now means the deal that made the Vatican its own state.