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Date	September 1814 - June 9, 1815
Location	Austria • Vienna
Participants	Austria • France • Portugal • Prussia • Russia • Spain • Sweden • United Kingdom

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The Congress of Vienna discussed ending the European slave trade, protecting the rights of German Jews, and free European river navigation.
So many representatives showed up along with their entourages that Viennas population increased by more than a third.
The meeting popularized the waltz and the French pastry that is today called "Wiener Kongresstorte" in Vienna.

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Klemens von Metternich

Klemens von Metternich

Austrian statesman

Talleyrand

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent

French statesman and diplomat

Alexander I

Alexander I

emperor of Russia

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

Irish statesman

Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg

Karl August von Hardenberg

Prussian statesman

Ercole Consalvi

Italian cardinal

Hans Christoph, baron von Gagern

German politician and writer

Hans Reinhard

Swiss statesman

Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, duke de Dalberg

French diplomat

Nenadović, Matija

Matija Nenadović

Serbian priest