Important Decisions of the Vienna Conference 1814 - 1815

· France was deprived of all territory conquered by Napoleon

· The Dutch Republic was united with the Austrian Netherlands to form a single kingdom of the Netherlands under the House of Orange.

· Norway and Sweden were joined under a single ruler

· Switzerland was declared neutral

· Russia got Finland and effective control over the new kingdom of Poland

· Prussia was given much of Saxony and important parts of Westphalia and the Rhine Province.

· Austria was given back most of the territory it had lost and was also given land in Germany and Italy (Lombardia and Venice)

· Britain got several strategic colonial territories, and they also gained control of the seas.

· France was restored under the rule of Louis XVIII.

· Spain was restored under Ferdinand VII