Vienna Congress

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• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF — VIENNA, CONGRESS OF, international congress held in Vienna, September 1814 to June 1815, to reestablish peace and order in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. The congress met in the Apollosaal built by the English born Jew, Sigmund Wolffsohn, and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Vienna, Congress of — (1814–15) Assembly that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. The powers of the Quadruple Alliance had concluded the Treaty of Chaumont just before Napoleon s first abdication and agreed to meet later in Vienna. There they were joined by… …   Universalium

• Vienna, Congress of — (1815)    A major international conference held in the Austrian capital from September 1814 to June 1815, the Congress of Vienna convened to consider the multifarious political problems to be tackled at the end of the Napoleonic Wars,… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Vienna, Congress of —    So far as Italy was concerned, the Congress of Vienna (November 1814 to June 1815) represented an attempt by the great powers, especially Austria, to restore absolutism in the Italian peninsula. The Trentino, South Tyrol, and Venezia Giulia… …   Historical Dictionary of modern Italy

• Vienna, Congress of — …   Useful english dictionary

• Vienna — /vee en euh/, n. 1. German, Wien. a port in and the capital of Austria, in the NE part, on the Danube. 1,515,666. 2. a city in NE Virginia. 15,469. 3. a town in W West Virginia. 11,618. * * * I German Wien City (pop., 2001: 1,550,123; metro. area …   Universalium

• Congress Kingdom of Poland — ▪ historical state, Poland also called  Congress Poland , Polish  Królestwo Polskie , Królestwo Kongresowe , or  Kongresówka        Polish state created (May 3, 1815) by the Congress of Vienna (Vienna, Congress of) as part of the political… …   Universalium

• congress — n. /kong gris/; v. /keuhn gres , keuhng /, n. 1. (cap.) a. the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution. b. this body as it… …   Universalium

• Congress of Vienna (disambiguation) — Congress of Vienna can refer to First Congress of Vienna, was held in 1515, attended by the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, and the Jagiellonian brothers, Sigismund I, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Vladislaus II, King of… …   Wikipedia

• Vienna (disambiguation) — Vienna can refer to: Geography In Austria: * Vienna, capital and a federal state of Austria * the River Vienna, a small river meeting the Danube at Vienna; see Wien (river)In France: * Vienne, a city known in Roman times as Vienna In Canada: *… …   Wikipedia

• Vienna Convention — can mean any of a number of treaties signed in Vienna. Notable are:* several treaties and conventions resulted from the Congress of Vienna (1814 1815) which redrew the map of Europe, only partially restoring the pre Napoleonic situation, and… …   Wikipedia