Holy Alliance

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The Holy Alliance was a coalition of major European monarchies formed after the Napoleonic Wars to preserve conservative order and suppress revolutionary movements across the continent.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Holy Alliance treaty 1
Sainte-Alliance 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical coalition
political alliance
alsoKnownAs Holy Alliance
surface form: Sainte-Alliance
basedOnDocument Holy Alliance self-linksurface differs
surface form: Holy Alliance treaty
cooperatedWith Concert of Europe
criticizedBy liberal thinkers in 19th-century Europe
dateFounded 1815
dateSigned 26 September 1815
declinePeriod mid-19th century
deFactoLeader Alexander I of Russia
Russian Empire
diplomaticFramework Concert of Europe system
foundedAfter Congress of Vienna
Napoleonic Wars
foundedBy Alexander I of Russia
hasMember Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Kingdom of France
surface form: Kingdom of France (nominally)

Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Russian Empire
historicalEra post-Napoleonic era
ideology Christian monarchism
conservatism
influencedBy Christian principles
Restoration politics
languageOfTreaty French
locationSigned Paris
longTermEffect temporary stabilization of conservative regimes in Europe
membershipType coalition of monarchies
notableIntervention intervention in Piedmont-Sardinia
intervention in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
suppression of revolutions of 1820–1821
opposedTo liberalism
nationalism
republicanism
partOf Restoration period in Europe
surface form: Restoration Europe
politicalCharacter reactionary alliance
purpose defense of monarchical legitimacy
preservation of conservative order in Europe
suppression of revolutionary movements in Europe
regionServed Europe
relatedEvent 1848 revolutions
surface form: Revolutions of 1848
signedBy Alexander I of Russia
Francis I of Austria
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
surface form: Frederick William III of Prussia
soughtToMaintain balance of power in Europe
usedInstrument intervention in other states

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Russian Empire alliance Holy Alliance
Holy Alliance alsoKnownAs Holy Alliance
this entity surface form: Sainte-Alliance
Holy Alliance basedOnDocument Holy Alliance self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Holy Alliance treaty
Alexander I of Russia coFounded Holy Alliance
Congress of Vienna followedBy Holy Alliance
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy memberOf Holy Alliance