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The term Papal Legation, in a territorial sense, refers to certain northern administrative regions of the erstwhile Papal States: specifically the "Legations" of Ferrara, Bologna, and Romagna.

In 1860, after the Second Italian Independence War, the Papal Legations entered through a referendum in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

 


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