This map shows Europe after the Congress of Vienna, where major European powers, except France, designed the new World order after the fall of the French Empire.
France was reduced to its pre-revolutionary borders, and states like Piedmont-Sardinia, the Papal States and the smaller Italian principalities were recreated. While the old Holy Roman Empire was not recreated, Austria became an Empire in its own right, and all the old German states of the Holy Empire, including the German possessions of Prussia and Austria, were loosely united in a German Confederation.
Poland and Finland became possessions of the Russian Empire, but the City of Cracow became an international city controlled by Austria, Russia and Prussia - it reverted to full Austrian control in 1846.
Finally, the Netherlands were awarded the old Austrian Netherlands and the Principality of Liege, which had been annexed by France at the end of the 18th Century. These would in turn seceded in 1830, forming the new Kingdom of Belgium.
Europe in 1815
