Editing Vatican City (section)

== Name ==
The name ''{{linktext|Vatican City}}'' was first used in the [[Lateran Treaty]], signed on 11 February 1929, which established the modern city-state named after [[Vatican Hill]], the geographic location of the state within the city of [[Rome]]. "Vatican" itself is derived from the name of an [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] settlement, {{lang|la|Vatica}} or {{lang|la|Vaticum}}, located in the general area the Romans called ''[[Ager Vaticanus]]'', "Vatican territory".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=L. |title=New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome |date=October 1992 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=0-8018-4300-6 |location=Baltimore |page=405}}</ref>

The [[Italian language|Italian-language]] name of the city is {{lang|it|Città del Vaticano}} or, more formally, {{lang|it|Stato della Città del Vaticano}}, meaning 'State of Vatican City'. Its [[Latin]] name is ''{{lang|la|Status Civitatis Vaticanae}}'';<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apostolic Constitution |url=https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19451208_vacantis-apostolicae-sedis.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912234026/http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19451208_vacantis-apostolicae-sedis.html |archive-date=12 September 2020 |access-date=3 August 2020 |language=la}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pope Francis |date=8 September 2014 |title=Letter to John Cardinal Lajolo |url=https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/la/letters/2014/documents/papa-francesco_20140908_lettera-card-giovanni-lajolo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418013034/http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/la/letters/2014/documents/papa-francesco_20140908_lettera-card-giovanni-lajolo.html |archive-date=18 April 2015 |access-date=28 May 2015 |publisher=The Vatican |language=la}}</ref> this is used in official documents by the [[Holy See]], the Church and the [[Pope]].