Congress of Troppau

The Troppauer Prince Congress is one of the series of Monarch congresses in the first third of the 19th century. He was held from October 20 to December 20 in 1820 in Opava, Opava today instead. His was triggered by the revolutionary developments in Naples in July of this year.

Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich invited participants from the five great powers of Europe to work on the more political approach. From Austria, Russia and Prussia took part monarch, Crown Prince and diplomats, while Britain and France were represented by ambassadors at the conference.

Tsar Alexander I and Emperor Francis I of Austria were there personally, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia represented. They were supported by their foreign ministers Ioannis Kapodistrias, Metternich and Karl August von Hardenberg.

Metternich tried to define the states on the basis of closed Holy Alliance to intervene in those countries that were roll-over risk. Apart from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, it was a matter of intervention in Spain and Portugal, where after the Napoleonic wars republican ideas questioned the continued existence of the monarchies in question.

On 19 November, the monarch signed from Austria, Russia and Prussia a protocol that they einschwor on the Metternich line to intervene in burgeoning revolutions from the outside and to suppress them in order to preserve the status quo of 1815. Great Britain protested against this agreement.

On 20 December, the Congress without an accurate Agreement expired for intervention in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. However, it agreed on a continuation of the Congress in Ljubljana on 26 January 1821 where the details should be clarified.