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The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
The list of national border changes from 1815 to 1914 refers to the changes in international borders since the end of the Napoleonic Wars until World War I. This period of time saw the fall of the Spanish colonial empire to the United States and the progression of European colonial efforts.
The first partially free Parliament's vote after 45-year-long Soviet domination 966: Adoption of Christianity by the first historically documented Polish ruler Mieszko I. 15 February 1951: Polish-Soviet border adjustment treaty: 11 November 1918: Poland regains its independence. Portugal: 2 April 1976: Constitution of Portugal: 5 October 1143
Pages in category "Former countries in Europe" ... Former countries in Europe after 1815. ... Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune;
Flag Name Capital(s) Type Existed Region Today part of Kingdom of Bailundo: Kingdom: 1700–1904: Africa: Central: Angola Portuguese Angola: Luanda: Colony of Portugal
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly Austria.