Congress | Political gatherings
Congress has also been used to describe certain historical gatherings, such as
* the Congress of Gniezno (1000)
* the Congress of Vienna (1815), reorganizing Europe after the Napoleon wars,
* the Congress of Berlin (1877-78), reorganizing conditions in the Balkans,
* the Congress of Tucumán (1816)
* The Congress of Panama was an 1826 meeting of representatives from several Latin American republics organized by Simon Bolivar in an attempt to promote Pan-American unity.
* The National Congress of Belgium was a temporarly legislative assembly in 1830, formed to create a constitution for the new state.
It has been used for meetings of independence-minded nationalists or revolutionaries:
* The United States Continental Congress
* The Indian National Congress
* The Iraqi National Congress
* The African National Congress