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Definition of “Congress of Vienna”

Congress of Vienna

Definitions

noun

  1. the European conference held at Vienna from 1814–15 to settle the territorial problems left by the Napoleonic Wars

Example Sentences Including 'Congress of Vienna'

Holden has described the Congress of Vienna ; Britain's diplomats have striven for a just peace- `'I am French, not British," he said.
Baxter, Stephen Anti-Ice
There were as many Princes as at the Congress of Vienna [he continued].
Christopher Hibbert DISRAELI: A Personal History (2004)
This charade makes the 1815 Congress of Vienna that carved up post-Napoleonic Europe look like a model of open government.
Times, Sunday Times (2004)

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