Wednesday 2 May 2012

project question 1

after the congress of vienna, austria gained many things including alot of land. in italy, it recieved venetia,lombardy and milan, illyrian provinces(carinthia,carnida,and trieste),dalmatia and the seaport of cattarp(now the kingdoms of illyria and dalmatia). in poland, austria kept eastern galicia, and karkaw was made a free city. austria also recieved the tyrol and salzburg in germany. besides these many lands austria gained, she had to give up the netherlands. for political power, the fate of austria remained firmly entreched in the hand of hapsburg empire. hapsburg was under a centeral headquarted in austria. astria had exerted far greater influencedue to the backing of the political power held by the hapsburs,than the much stringer prussians.austria stringest ally was the balkan region. the cingress of viena was concluded by signing quadruple alliance(russia,prussia,britain,and austria)which helped them uphold the peace settlement. as long as the allies were willing to co-operate inthe "congress system" to maintain the peace,order,and stability in europe,austrian interests were protected. this made the leaders and people of austria happy andsafe. the congress of vienna brought them peace,land,wealth,and power,so ther was nothing to disappointthem.

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