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The victorious powers met in Vienna from late 1814 to early 1815 to restore order to Europe. They left intact most of the middle-sized states created in the Confederation of the Rhine. But their treaty divided the rest of Napoleon's lands among themselves. Prussia received lands including the Rhineland, Westphalia, and much of Saxony, greatly increasing its power in northern and western Germany. Austria gave up its territories in southern Germany and the lands that are now Belgium and Luxembourg, and it took territories in Italy. Austria, Prussia, and Russia again divided Poland. |
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J. Sheehan, "Germany," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://www./wbol/wbPage/na/ar/co/222500,
October 7, 2001.
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