In which year Vatican City was established as an independent state ________ ?

A. 1929
B. 1930
C. 1931
D. 1932

The independent Vatican City-state, on the other hand, came into existence on 11 February 1929 by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy, which spoke of it as a new creation, not as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756–1870), which had previously encompassed much of central Italy.