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Quiz Entry - updated: 2026.07.30

What year did the Congress of Vienna recognize Swiss borders and permanent neutrality?

1815 → dove · tail.

A diplomats' congress with a neutrality flag, a dove with a long tail — Vienna 1815, pegs dove (18) and tail (15).

After Napoleon's fall, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 redrew Europe and formally guaranteed Switzerland's borders and its perpetual neutrality, while Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva joined to bring the total to 22 cantons. That international guarantee — armed, neutral, kept out of great-power wars — became the legal bedrock of Swiss foreign policy that still holds today. Peg 18 · 15dove · tail: a dove with a long tail.

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From Quiz: MAJOR / Swiss History Numbers | Updated: Jul 30, 2026