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In 1870 , when the military forces of the Kingdom of Italy overthrew what was left of the Papal States , the Italian government intended to allow the Pope to keep the Leonine City as a small remnant Papal State. But Pope Pius IX would not agree to that arrangement, and thus there was a 59-year Standoff , settled in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty , which recognized the sovereignty and independence of the Vatican City. See also Trastevere . |