"Ecclesiastical State" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1789–92 (date written), Edward Gibbon, Antiquities of the House of Brunswick, published 1814, pages 26–27",
          "text": "They solicited the aid of the miscreant Saracens, invaded the ecclesiastical State, entered the city, profaned the churches, extorted an oath of fidelity from the Romans, and dared to imprison the successor of St. Peter.",
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          "ref": "1883, George P. Putnam, Frederick B. Perkins, Lynds E. Jones, “Ecclesiastical State or States of the Church”, in The World’s Progress […], volume 1, page 360",
          "text": "In the same year a conclave was permitted to be held at Venice; and in 1800, cardinal Chiaramonti, who was elected to the papal chair, took the title of Pius VII., and resumed the dominion of the Ecclesiastical State.",
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        "The Papal States."
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