Carlsbad Decrees: Meaning and Definition of

Carls'bad Decrees'

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  1. resolutions adopted by the ministers of nine German states at a meeting called at Carlsbad in 1819 by Prince Metternich: aim was the suppression of revolutionary activities esp. in the universities.
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