Territorial Adjustments of the Vienna Settlement : mindmap
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- Territorial Adjustments of the Vienna Settlement
- The German Confederation
- In place of the defunct Holy Roman Empire, the German Confederation was created.
- The Confederation's constitution was accepted on June 8, 1815, and was incorporated into the Final Act of the congress, signed on June 9, nine days before Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
- Creation of 39 Germanic States under the German Confederation, controlled by Austria
- It was created to have a balance of power, by creating a buffer between France and Russia.
- Restorations :
- The restortion of LouisXVIII in France
- The restoration of Ferdinand VII in Spain
- Italian Areas :
- Italy was dealt with as a geographic rather than a political entity, and its hopes for unity were dashed.
- Naples and Sicily were reunited under Bourbon rule
- The Papal States were restored
- The duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla were awarded to French Empress Marie Louise for her lifetime
- Tuscany and Modena were restored to the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine
- The Lombardo-Venetian kingdom was set up under Austrian rule to compensate Austria for its loss of the Austrian Netherland
- The formerly Venetian part of Dalmatia also went to Austria.
- The kingdom of Sardinia was restored and recovered Savoy, Nice, and Piedmont, and it received Liguria with Genoa.
- Poland :
- Poland was re-divided among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, with Russia benefiting primarily
- Part of Poland, with Warsaw, was set up as a kingdom in personal union with Russia
- Kraków and its surrounding territory were made a republic under the protection of Russia, Austria, and Prussia
- Prussia was awarded 3/5 Saxony as well as important parts of Westphalia and Rhine Province, since Austria received Italian territories to compensate for Russian gains
- Miscellaneous :
- The former Austrian Netherlands was united with the former United Provinces as the kingdom of the Netherlands, under the house of Orange.
- Russia retained the formerly Swedish Finland.
- The congress confirmed the transfer of Norway from the Danish to the Swedish crown
- W Pomerania, the claim to which Sweden had ceded to Denmark in the Treaty of Kiel (1814), was given to Prussia, which compensated Denmark with the duchy of Lauenburg.
- Bavaria received its approximate present-day boundaries, as did Württemberg and Baden.
- Switzerland was enlarged, and Swiss neutrality was guaranteed.
- Prussia had control over natural resources and a large labour force.
- France's borders were withdrawn.
- The Netherlands (Dutch), Holand and Belguim, and Piedmont Sardina was created as a buffer to stop France. Cordon Sanitaire.
- Russia advanced her western frontier several hundred miles.
- The German Confederation
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