When1: 1815
Who: Congress of Vienna
What: congress
Where: Austria
Detail: Francis II and Metternich presided. Bourbon Restoration restored Louis XVIII as king of France. Talleyrand was his foreign minister. Austria got Lombardy, Venetia, and Galicia, so Austrian Empire was Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, south Poland, Lombardy, Venetia, Dalmatia, Galicia, and Kingdom of Hungary. Kingdom of Hungary had Croatia and Slovenia. Venetia is region near Venice.
German Confederation formed, with Prussia, Confederation of the Rhine states, German free cities, Austria, Holstein, Hanover, and Luxembourg. Austria controlled legislature {diet, assembly}. Prussia got west Prussia and Poznan.
Papal States stayed the same as before.
Bourbons ruled Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which included Sicily, Naples, and south Italy. Savoy, Genoa, and Sardinia became kingdom under Savoy line.
United Provinces or Holland and Austrian Netherlands or Belgium and Luxembourg merged into one kingdom. Kingdom of Poland or Congree-Poland was region around Warsaw. Cracow was republic. Denmark lost Norway. It guaranteed Switzerland confederation neutrality.
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