Complete the sentence about St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava with the correct year: Construction of a new Gothic cathedral began in ______ on the site of the earlier church and an adjacent cemetery.
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Correct answer: B. 1311
St Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava replaced an older Romanesque church after the town gained extra privileges in 1291 and outgrew it. Work on the new Gothic cathedral started in 1311 on the site of that church and a neighbouring cemetery, and it carried on until 1452.
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