Europe in 1815 quiz

What's on this map

Europe in 1815, after the Congress of Vienna redrew the map following Napoleon's defeat. The great powers came out on top. Prussia gained the Rhineland, Westphalia and the northern part of Saxony, so it now came in two separate pieces. Austria took Lombardy-Venetia and Dalmatia. Russia ruled Finland and the Kingdom of Poland, which had its own constitution but the tsar as its king. Kraków was a tiny free city in between.

The German Confederation replaced the Holy Roman Empire. It was a loose league of 39 states, from kingdoms like Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover and Württemberg down to duchies and four free cities: Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. This map shows the larger states one by one and groups the many small duchies of Thuringia together. Italy was split into eight states, including the Papal States around Rome. The Kingdom of the Netherlands included today's Belgium, and Norway was joined to Sweden under one king.

The places people miss

• Hanover – a kingdom ruled by the British king until 1837.
• Bavaria – also held the Palatinate, a separate piece on the Rhine.
• Luxembourg – a grand duchy ruled by the Dutch king, and a member of the German Confederation.
• Two Sicilies – Naples and Sicily, formally united as one kingdom in 1816.
• Wallachia and Moldavia – principalities under the Ottomans that later formed Romania.
• Ionian Islands – a British protectorate off the coast of Greece; there was no Greek state yet.

How to learn it

• Start with the big shapes: France, Spain, the Austrian Empire, Prussia, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
• Then learn Italy from north to south, and the German Confederation from the North Sea down to the Alps.
• Learn the free cities and the small duchies last. The tiny ones get a tap circle.
• Finish with Name them all. 51 states is a real challenge.