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History of Croatia

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  1. Why did many Croats support the Habsburg court in 1848, and Ban Jelačić in particular?
  2. What was the Croatian-Hungarian Settlement (Nagodba) of 1868?
  3. What is the war of 1991 to 1995 in Croatia called in Croatian history?
  4. Which document, adopted on 22 December 1990, defined Croatia as a democratic state after the first free elections?
  5. Which treaty of 1797 ended the Republic of Venice and gave its Dalmatian possessions to Austria?
  6. Which leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, born in the village of Kumrovec in Croatia, ruled Yugoslavia until 1980?
  7. In which year did Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia?
  8. How did the Republic of Dubrovnik stay independent for centuries, even though it lay between large powers?
  9. Which bishop founded the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (1866) and supported the creation of the University of Zagreb (1874)?
  10. In which year did Croatia become a member of the European Union?
  11. Why did the election of Ferdinand of Habsburg at Cetin in 1527 have long-term consequences for Croatia?
  12. The Croatian Constitution was adopted in 1990 and the euro was introduced in 2023. How many years apart were these events?
  13. What was the name of the independent city-state centred on Dubrovnik until 1808?
  14. What was the Banovina of Croatia, created in 1939?
  15. What was the importance of the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699) for Croatian lands?
  16. Which political event began in Croatia in 1971 and called for greater national rights within Yugoslavia?
  17. Who was the first president of the Republic of Croatia after the multiparty elections of 1990?
  18. In which year did Croatia become a member of NATO?
  19. What was the main difference between the lands under the Military Frontier and the civil Croatia during the Habsburg period?
  20. Which agreement of December 1995 ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
  21. What happened at Cetin in 1527?
  22. Which Croatian ban died in 1566 defending the fortress of Szigetvár against the army of Sultan Suleiman?
  23. What was Operation Storm (Oluja) of August 1995?
  24. What happened to Stjepan Radić, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, in June 1928?
  25. What happened to Dubrovnik in 1808?
  26. What did the Erdut Agreement of 1995 provide for?
  27. Which list gives the correct order of the state frameworks of Croatia in the twentieth century?
  28. Put these events in chronological order: Pacta Conventa, Battle of Mohács, Croatian-Hungarian Settlement, Operation Storm.
  29. What did the Pacta Conventa (1102) establish, according to tradition?
  30. On 1 January 2023, Croatia took two steps in European integration. Which two?
  31. Who was crowned as the first king of Croatia, around the year 925?
  32. What was the role of Ban Josip Jelačić in the revolutions of 1848?
  33. What was the Military Frontier (Vojna krajina)?
  34. What was the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), founded in April 1941?
  35. Who led the Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt of 1573 against the landlord Franjo Tahy?
  36. Which state was formed on 1 December 1918, with Croatia as one of its parts?
  37. Which Croatian city was besieged for about three months in 1991 and became a symbol of the Homeland War?

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