Why did new States form in Europe

• The defense of sovereignty was associated with liberalism, but it also made people want independence
• A fresh wave of nationalist movements began

  1830
• Nationalist movements

  • Greece gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire
  • Belgium separated from Holland (1831-1839)
  • National revolutions spread throughout the Austrian Empire and involved many nationalities (OHungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, etc.)
• National revolutions spread throughout the Austrian Empire and involved many nationalities (OHungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, etc.)


  1848
• Greece gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire


  In the 1820s
• Nationalism expanded throughout Europe

  Due to people's opposition to Napoleonic rule in occupied territories