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From Carantania to Independence

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  1. On which date is Statehood Day celebrated in Slovenia?
  2. Of which federal state was Slovenia a republic until 1991?
  3. In which year did Slovenia become a member of the European Union?
  4. In which year did Slovenia introduce the euro?
  5. Which army fought against Slovenia in the Ten-Day War of 1991?
  6. Who was the first President of the independent Republic of Slovenia?
  7. Which Roman city lay on the site of today's Ljubljana?
  8. Which early Slavic principality, formed in the 7th century, is regarded as the first Slovenian state?
  9. Which French emperor created the Illyrian Provinces, with Ljubljana as the capital, in 1809?
  10. Which architect shaped much of the look of Ljubljana, with works such as the Triple Bridge?
  11. Which agreement, made on an Adriatic island, ended the fighting of the Ten-Day War in July 1991?
  12. Which language was the first book printed in 1550 by Primož Trubar written in?
  13. What was the Prince's Stone (Knežji kamen) used for?
  14. What are the Freising Manuscripts, from about the year 1000?
  15. Who led the great peasant revolt of 1573 in Croatia and Slovenia?
  16. Which congress in Ljubljana in 1821 was attended by Austria, Russia and Prussia?
  17. What did the 'United Slovenia' programme of 1848 demand?
  18. Which front of the First World War ran through the Soča (Isonzo) valley?
  19. Which new state did Slovenes, Croats and Serbs of the Habsburg lands form in October 1918, before joining the Kingdom on 1 December?
  20. Which general secured Maribor for the new state in November 1918?
  21. What did the Treaty of Rapallo of 1920 do to the Slovenian lands?
  22. What was decided by the plebiscite in southern Carinthia in 1920?
  23. How was Slovenia divided after the invasion of April 1941?
  24. What was the Liberation Front (Osvobodilna fronta), founded on 27 April 1941?
  25. What was decided in the plebiscite of 23 December 1990?
  26. In which year did Slovenia join NATO?
  27. In which year did Slovenia join the Schengen area?
  28. How is the President of Slovenia chosen?
  29. What happened to the powerful Counts of Celje in 1456?
  30. Which list shows the events in the correct order?
  31. Why was the Treaty of Rapallo painful for the Slovenes?
  32. What did the Brioni Agreement of July 1991 also include besides a ceasefire?
  33. In which respect was Slovenia the first among the states that joined the EU in 2004?
  34. What did the Slovenian parliament adopt on 25 June 1991?
  35. What was the aim of the Slovenian national movement of the 19th century?
  36. In which year did the European Community recognise Slovenia as an independent state?
  37. Which Roman urban colony stood on the site of modern-day Ljubljana during the imperial era?
  38. Which historic stone monument in Carinthia served as the seat for the ritual installation of Carantanian dukes?
  39. Which last male count of the Counts of Celje was assassinated in Belgrade in 1456, ending their dynastic line?
  40. Which traditional rallying cry was adopted by rebellious peasants during the All-Slovenian Peasant Revolt of 1515?
  41. In which year did Empress Maria Theresa introduce the General School Regulation making primary schooling compulsory across Habsburg lands?
  42. Which city served as the administrative capital of the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces between 1809 and 1813?
  43. Which Carinthian priest and national activist authored the United Slovenia (Zedinjena Slovenija) political programme in 1848?
  44. Which military commander mobilized Slovenian volunteers in November 1918 to disarm German units and secure Maribor for the new state?
  45. In which year was the Treaty of Rapallo signed between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Italy?
  46. On which date in 1941 was the Anti-Imperialist Front (later named the Liberation Front of the Slovenian Nation) established in Ljubljana?
  47. On which date in 1990 did Slovenian citizens vote overwhelmingly in favor of an independent and sovereign state in a national plebiscite?
  48. Which diplomatic agreement signed on 7 July 1991 halted military hostilities between Slovenian forces and the Yugoslav army?
  49. In which year did the Republic of Slovenia formally join both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union?
  50. Who served as the Prime Minister of the first democratically elected Slovenian government under the DEMOS coalition in May 1990?
  51. What defensive architectural structures did Slovenian villagers construct around countryside churches in the 15th and 16th centuries to survive Ottoman raids?
  52. To which major northeastern city did Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek transfer the seat of the Lavant diocese in 1859, unifying Styrian Slovenes?
  53. In which year did the controversial military trial of the JBTZ four take place in Ljubljana, sparking mass pro-democracy protests?
  54. Which celebrated poet read the May Declaration (Majniška deklaracija) demanding a sovereign democratic Slovenian state at Congress Square in May 1989?
  55. In which year did the southern Carinthian plebiscite take place, resulting in Zone A voting to remain part of the Republic of Austria?
  56. From which coastal port town did the last remaining soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leave Slovenian territory on the night of 25 October 1991?
  57. Which world-famous bronze vessel discovered near Litija exemplifies the Early Iron Age Hallstatt situla art in Slovenian territory?
  58. Which missionary bishop was sent from Salzburg in the 8th century by Duke Cheitmar to direct the systematic Christianisation of Carantania?
  59. Which Slavic prince ruled Lower Pannonia around Lake Balaton in the 9th century and actively supported the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius?
  60. Which crucial service did Count Herman II of Celje provide to the Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxembourg at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396?
  61. Who was the peasant leader of the 1713 Tolmin peasant uprising who was condemned to death and executed along with his comrades in Gorizia?
  62. Which Catholic Prince-Bishop of Ljubljana directed the Counter-Reformation in Carniola around 1600, overseeing the burning of Protestant literature?
  63. Which major civil reform was enacted by Emperor Joseph II through the Patent of Toleration in 1781?
  64. Which prominent conservative political leader and veterinarian founded the influential newspaper Kmetijske in rokodelske novice in 1843?
  65. What was the primary political goal demanded by thousands of citizens gathered at the massive outdoor rallies (tabori) held between 1868 and 1871?
  66. What constitutional restructuring of Austria-Hungary was proposed in the May Declaration of 1917, delivered by Anton Korošec in the Vienna parliament?
  67. Which short-lived sovereign state was established in Zagreb on 29 October 1918 before merging into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?
  68. What was the mission of the illegal resistance organisation TIGR, founded in 1927 by Slovenes and Croats under Italian fascist rule?
  69. Which three neighboring Axis powers occupied and divided Slovenian territory following the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941?
  70. What landmark decision was made by the Assembly of Delegates of the Slovenian Nation (Kočevski zbor) in October 1943?
  71. Under whose leadership was the anti-communist collaborationist force Slovensko domobranstvo (Slovene Home Guard) organized in September 1943?
  72. Which major territorial gain was secured for Slovenia under the Paris Peace Treaty of February 1947 with Italy?
  73. How was the dispute over the Free Territory of Trieste de facto settled by the London Memorandum in October 1954?
  74. Which constitutional right embedded in the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution provided the formal legal basis for Slovenia's declaration of independence in 1991?
  75. What was the significance of issue number 57 of the intellectual journal Nova revija, published in February 1987?
  76. Which historic legal document was passed by the Slovenian Assembly on 25 June 1991, establishing the Republic of Slovenia as an independent state?
  77. What occurred at the Rožna Dolina border crossing near Nova Gorica on 28 June 1991 during the Ten-Day War?
  78. Which 9th-century Latin historical source, compiled in Salzburg around 870, provides the primary documentary record of early Carantanian history and Christianisation?
  79. Why was the medieval ceremony of installing the Duke of Carinthia at the Prince's Stone near Maria Saal unique in European constitutional history?
  80. Which dynastic agreement, signed between the Counts of Celje and the Habsburgs in 1443, determined the future political fate of Slovenian lands?
  81. Which feudal lord's extreme cruelty and unlawful tax extortions in the Susjedgrad-Stubica estate sparked the massive Croatian-Slovenian Peasant Revolt of 1573?
  82. Why were Jurij Dalmatin's newly printed Slovenian Bibles transported from Germany to Carniola in 1584 concealed in barrels marked as wine and barrels marked as grain?
  83. Which legal and institutional reform under the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces between 1809 and 1813 laid the groundwork for modern Slovenian civil society?
  84. What tragic event took place on the main square of Maribor on 27 January 1919 during the visit of an American diplomatic fact-finding delegation?
  85. Why did Slovenian political parties vehemently oppose the passage of the Vidovdan Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in June 1921?
  86. What was the international impact of the First Trieste Trial in September 1930, resulting in the execution of four TIGR antifascist activists at Bazovica?
  87. Which tragic event occurred in May and June 1945 in the forests of Kočevski Rog and karst chasms across Slovenia?
  88. What international border settlement was definitively concluded by the Treaty of Osimo signed between Italy and Yugoslavia in November 1975?
  89. Which prominent civil rights figure served as the coordinator of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights formed in Ljubljana in June 1988?
  90. Which military doctrine and institutional body organized by Slovenia successfully countered the Yugoslav People's Army in the Ten-Day War of 1991?
  91. Which major European country took the lead on 23 December 1991 by announcing its diplomatic recognition of Slovenian independence ahead of the European Community?

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