Complete the sentence about Prievidza with the correct year: During the Kuruc uprising in ______, Prievidza was burned down again, with fire burning a part of town's archives.
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Correct answer: B. 1673
Prievidza is a city in western Slovakia. During the Kuruc uprising in 1673 it was burned down for a second time, and the fire destroyed part of the town archives. The first burning had come from the Ottomans in 1599, and the Piarists built their baroque church in 1666 between the two.
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