<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who controlled poland after the congress of vienna
who controlled poland after the congress of vienna
Russia
Russia