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Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of these restitutions,effected either by the direct action of the Congress or alreadyconsummated by events and confirmed by it, were those whichbrought back the banished Bourbon dynasties in France, Spain,and Naples.^ The question of legitimacy having been settled, the next ques-tion was how the territories recovered from Napoleon should bedistributed among the dynasties recognized as legitimate. Formost of the sovereigns this was the subject of chief interest.Russia wanted the whole of Poland ; Prussia wanted the kingdom ofSaxony; Sweden wanted Norway; Austria wanted territory in Italy. In making the distribution the Vienna map makers took nothought whatever of the rights and claims of race or nationality. 2 The principle was applied only in the case of hereditary lay rulers. And evenhere an exception was made in the case of the hundreds of petty German rulers whoseterritories Napoleon in his reorganization of Germany had given to the larger states.These princelets were not restored.
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