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• 1815-1848
• The Congress of Vienna met to settle questions over properties left in the wake of Napoleon
• Representatives
• France- Talleyrand 
• England- Castlereagh 
• Austria- Metternich 
• Russia- Czar Alexander
• All of those men discuss what is going to happen after Napoleon left
• Russia refused to discuss the situation in Turkey and the Balkan states
• England refused to talk about their international sea trade and the colonies
• Geopolitical implications followed
• A system of strong states around France was discussed
• Austria Netherlands were transferred to the Dutch 
• The Dutch Republic changed its name
• It became, along with other places, the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• It is ruled by the House of Orange
• The roots of world war I are set up during the congress of Vienna
• Congress Poland
• Louis VIII returns to France as a constitutional monarch
• Napoleon was banned from ever having any rule or leadership in France
• The Holy Alliance
• Said that the rule over Eastern Europe was divinely granted
• Austria signs on
• Prussia also signs on
• England refuses
• Russia controls Prussia
• 1832- Greece, had for a while now, been occupied by the Ottoman Turks. The Turks had swept in through the Aegean and overcome Greece and there was war between them.