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People: Stephen I of Hungary
Topic: Concert of Europe
Location: Modica > Motya Sicilia Italy

Concert of Europe

Years: 1815 - 1849

The Concert of Europe, also known as the Congress System or the Vienna System after the Congress of Vienna, is a system of dispute resolution adopted by the major conservative powers of Europe to maintain their power, oppose revolutionary movements, weaken the forces of nationalism, and uphold the balance of power.

Historians date its operation from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the late 1840s, although some see it playing a role until the Crimean War (1853–1856).


"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)