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The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic republic in Western Asia, successor to the Persian Empire and one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, transformed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Deep Persian civilizational continuity and cultural prestige are strong, but modern theocracy and isolation weigh heavily.
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The Papal States were a collection of territories in central Italy governed directly by the pope as a temporal ruler. Their conventional history begins with the Donation of Pepin in 756, and at different times they included Rome and parts of Lazio, Umbria, the Marche, and Romagna; the remaining terr...
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Exceptional longevity and immense religious-political influence, offset by recurrent corruption, warfare, territorial weakness, and resistance to Italian unification.
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