The Duchy of Genoa was the name given to the territories in the Republic of Genoa due to a meeting chaired by what Austrian statesman?
Klemens von Metternich
Duchy of Genoa
The Duchy of Genoa was the name taken by the territories of the former Republic of Genoa when they were given to the Kingdom of Sardinia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna (German: "Wiener Kongress") was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814.
 The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
 The goal was not simply to restore old boundaries but to resize the main powers so they could balance each other and remain at peace.
 The leaders were conservatives with little use for republicanism or revolution, both of which threatened to upset the status quo in Europe.
 France lost all its recent conquests while Prussia, Austria and Russia made major territorial gains.
 Prussia added smaller German states in the west, Swedish Pomerania and 60% of the Kingdom of Saxony; Austria gained Venice and much of northern Italy.
 Russia gained parts of Poland.
 The new Kingdom of the Netherlands had been created just months before, and included formerly Austrian territory that in 1830 became Belgium.
Savoyard state
From the Middle Ages, the Savoyard state comprised the Duchy of Savoy, the Principality of Piedmont, the Duchy of Aosta and the County of Nice.
 From 1708 it included the Duchy of Montferrat, then the Kingdom of Sicily from 1713 until 1720, the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1720 and the Duchy of Genoa from 1815.
 These territories formed a composite state under the House of Savoy until the promulgation of a single constitution, the Statuto Albertino,was established in 1848.
 By 1861, this unified state had acquired most of the other states on the Italian peninsula and formed the Kingdom of Italy. American Football Association
The American Football Association (AFA) was the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing soccer body.
 It is best known for being the second oldest sports league to form, behind the National League of baseball in 1876, as well as being the oldest soccer league in the United States.
 The Association was formed in 1884 in an attempt to standardize rules and procedures.
 It was allied with The Football Association, becoming a member on February 22, 1909 at an FA meeting chaired by John Charles Clegg, and drew on that organization's approach to the game.
 As part of its efforts, the AFA directly organized both league and cup competitions as well as overseeing the operations of member leagues.
 In 1884, it established the American Cup, which for several decades was the highest competitive soccer competition in the United States.
 The weakness of the AFA lay in its refusal to expand outside the southern New England region.
 When a movement began to create a national governing body in 1911, the AFA found itself confronting the newly established American Amateur Football Association (AAFA), a body which quickly became national.
 The AFA argued that it should be recognized by FIFA.
 However, several member organizations defected from the AFA to the AAFA in 1912.
 The AAFA quickly moved to reform itself as the United States Football Association, receiving FIFA recognition in 1913.
 The AFA continued to run the American Cup until 1925, but by that time it had been superseded by the National Challenge Cup and National Amateur Cup. Information Design Association
The Information Design Association (IDA) was launched at a meeting chaired by Nick Ross at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 14 May 1991.
 in the belief that 'Good information design results in the clear and effective presentation of information.
 It combines skills in graphic design, writing, and human factors to make complex information easier to understand.' Church of England (Continuing)
The Church of England (Continuing) is part of the Continuing Anglican Movement.
 The church was founded in England on 10 February 1994 at a meeting chaired by David Samuel held at St Mary's, Castle Street, Reading, in reaction to the use of the "Alternative Service Book" and to the ordination of women.
 The church holds to the unmodified Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England and to the 1662 "Book of Common Prayer" which alone is used by its parishes for worship. Treaty of Gallipoli
The Treaty of Gallipoli, concluded in January or early February 1403, was a peace treaty between Süleyman Çelebi, ruler of the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, and the main Christian regional powers: the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Duchy of Naxos.
 Concluded in the aftermath of the Battle of Ankara, while Süleyman tried to strengthen his own position in the succession struggle with his brothers, the treaty brought major concessions to the Christian states, especially the Byzantines, who regained lost territories and achieved a position of nominal superiority over the Ottoman ruler.
 Its provisions were honoured by Süleyman as well as by Mehmed I, the victor of the Ottoman succession struggle, but collapsed after Mehmed's death in 1421. Arab-African Initiative
Conceived during a series of meetings in 2006 between Dr Hamdi Saleh, Ambassador of Egypt to Mozambique and Swaziland 2004–2007, Dr. Jeffery Sachs, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the UN, and Tokyo Sexwale, currently Minister of Human Settlements for the South African Government.
 The Arab African Initiative was inaugurated on September 17, 2006 in N.Y. in a meeting chaired by the President of the General Assembly Sheikha Haya Al Rashed Al Khalifa and with the approval of the former Secretary General Kofi Annan. AFC Rushden &amp; Diamonds
A.F.C. Rushden & Diamonds is an English football club based in Rushden in Northamptonshire.
 They played their opening season at Kiln Park, the home of Raunds Town, in 2011–12 and subsequently shared the Dog & Duck ground with Wellingborough Town from July 2012 to Summer 2017.
 A groundshare agreement with Rushden & Higham United was agreed for the 2017–2018 campaign.
 The club was formed in July 2011 by supporters after Rushden & Diamonds, a former Football League club, were expelled from the Football Conference and liquidated.
 At an open meeting chaired by a supporters group called SaveRDFC, a mandate was agreed upon to create a phoenix club, fully owned and controlled by its supporters.
 A team was created and accepted into the Northants Senior Youth League for the 2011–12 season, while a senior team played in the United Counties Football League Division One for the 2012–13 season.
 For the 2013–14 season, an Under-21 team was added, which plays in the Midland Football Combination Under-21 division. War of Curzola
The War of Curzola was fought between the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa due to increasing hostile relations between the two Italian republics.
 Spurred largely by a need for action following the commercially devastating Fall of Acre, Genoa and Venice were both looking for ways to increase their dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea.
 Following the expiration of a truce between the republics, Genoan ships continually harassed Venetian merchants in the Aegean Sea.
 In 1295, Genoese raids on the Venetian quarter in Constantinople further escalated the tensions, resulting in a formal declaration of war by the Venetians in the same year.
 A steep decline in Byzantine-Venetian relations, following the Fourth Crusade, resulted in Byzantium favoring the Genoese in the conflict.
 The Byzantines entered the war on the Genoan side.
 While the Venetians made swift advances into the Aegean and Black Seas, the Genoans exercised dominance throughout the war, finally besting the Venetians in the Battle of Curzola in 1298, with a truce being signed the next year.