ABSTRACT
After the destruction of the Holy Roman Empire by Napoleon in 1806 and the collapse of subsequent French attempts to reorganize central Europe in 1814 when the Napoleonic armies were driven back over the French frontiers, the Great Powers created at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the German Confederation. This reorganized German Central Europe into a confederation of 39 states dominated by Austria and Prussia, which was to survive until its destruction at the hands of Bismarck in 1866.
Holy Roman Empire Original composed of the German and north Italian territories of OTTOI, who was crowned Emperor by the Pope in 962. From 1273 onwards the Empire was increasingly dominated by the Habsburgs.
