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  1. Complete the sentence about Jesenice, Jesenice with the correct year: With the March of Carniola it passed to the Austrian House of Habsburg upon the Battle on the Marchfeld in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Jesenice, Jesenice with the correct year: The oldest is a set of mining rights issued to the Carinthian counts of Ortenburg, dating to ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Jesenice, Jesenice with the correct year: By decree of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, all of these settlements were amalgamated into the town of Jesenice on March 20, ____…
  4. Complete the sentence about Izola with the correct year: Izola was attested in written sources as Insula in 972 and 977, and as Insulle in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Nova Gorica with the correct year: Since May ______, Nova Gorica has been joined with Gorizia and Šempeter-Vrtojba in a common trans-border metropolitan zone, administered…
  6. Complete the sentence about Nova Gorica with the correct year: In ______, following World War II, Italy signed a peace treaty with the Allies, including Socialist Yugoslavia.
  7. Complete the sentence about Murska Sobota with the correct year: The modern Slovene name is a translation of the Hungarian name Muraszombat, which was the official name of the town until ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Murska Sobota with the correct year: In ______, the Republic of Prekmurje was declared here and the town was the capital of the new state.
  9. Complete the sentence about Murska Sobota with the correct year: In ______, during the Ten-Day War between Slovenia and the Yugoslav Federal Army, Murska Sobota was bombed from the air, with no casual…
  10. Complete the sentence about Murska Sobota with the correct year: In April ______, the town became the see of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota, which is a suffragan to the arch…
  11. Complete the sentence about Radovljica with the correct year: Founded in ______, the museum was later incorporated into the Radovljica Municipal Museum.
  12. Complete the sentence about Bovec with the correct year: Bovec itself was first mentioned in ______, when it belonged to the ecclesiastical Patria del Friuli, ruled by the Patriarchs of Aquileia.
  13. Complete the sentence about Bovec with the correct year: The remains of the Italian soldiers were exhumed and transferred to the Italian military ossuary outside Kobarid in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Kobarid with the correct year: Kobarid is best known for the ______ Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewel…
  15. Complete the sentence about Kobarid with the correct year: When Kobarid was first mentioned in ______, it was part of the Patria del Friuli ruled by the Patriarchs of Aquileia.
  16. Complete the sentence about Tolmin with the correct year: Finally the Tolmin area was conquered by the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I during the War of the League of Cambrai in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Tolmin with the correct year: In ______ it was the centre of a peasant revolt against increased taxation and the local Count Coronini.
  18. Complete the sentence about Tolmin with the correct year: After the Italian capitulation, it was occupied by Nazi Germany in ______ and was part of Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral before lib…
  19. Complete the sentence about Slovenj Gradec with the correct year: Gradec, Slovene for 'little castle', was first mentioned in a ______ deed, then part of the Imperial March of Styria.
  20. Complete the sentence about Slovenj Gradec with the correct year: Upon the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in ______, with the rest of Lower Styria, it was included in the newly established Kingdom of…
  21. Complete the sentence about Slovenj Gradec with the correct year: Until ______, the town was a German-speaking island in a Slovene-speaking area.
  22. Complete the sentence about Slovenj Gradec with the correct year: In the ______ census, the town was 75 percent German-speaking and 25 percent Slovene-speaking.
  23. Complete the sentence about Trbovlje with the correct year: The town was connected to the Austrian Southern Railway in ______, which contributed to its further development.
  24. Complete the sentence about Trbovlje with the correct year: On June 1, ______, there was a clash between workers and members of the Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists that resulted in several fatal…
  25. Complete the sentence about Brežice with the correct year: Peasant uprisings took place during the 16th century; in ______ peasants attacked the castle in Brežice, burned it, and killed the nobility s…
  26. Complete the sentence about Brežice with the correct year: The first school was established in Brežice in ______, taught by Franciscan friars at the friary.
  27. Complete the sentence about Krško with the correct year: The church on the right bank of the Sava is dedicated to the Holy Spirit and was built in ______ according to plans by the Austrian architect J…
  28. Complete the sentence about Krško with the correct year: South of Holy Spirit Church is a town house built in ______ in which the 17th-century scholar Johann Weikhard von Valvasor lived the final year…
  29. Complete the sentence about Sežana with the correct year: After ______, it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy and included in the Province of Trieste.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sežana with the correct year: During World War II, especially after ______, the area became a battlefield between the Partisan resistance and the Fascist and Nazi German fo…
  31. Complete the sentence about Sežana with the correct year: In May ______, Sežana was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans.
  32. Complete the sentence about Domžale with the correct year: Domžale became a town in ______ through the merger of the formerly independent settlements of Spodnje Domžale, Stob, Študa, and Zgornje Domža…
  33. Complete the sentence about Domžale with the correct year: In ______, the construction of modern apartments began and Domžale became known as a bedroom community of Ljubljana.
  34. Complete the sentence about Domžale with the correct year: After Slovenia declared independence, on 27 June ______ the Yugoslav army attacked barricades in the town, and bombed the radio transmitter a…
  35. Complete the sentence about Lendava with the correct year: The name of the settlement was changed from Dolnja Lendava to Lendava in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Kočevje with the correct year: In ______ Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia, granted the area around Ribnica within the imperial March of Carniola to the Carinthian counts of…
  37. Complete the sentence about Kočevje with the correct year: In the following decades they established the town of Gottschee, which was first mentioned in a ______ deed.
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The German name alone was used by the post office before ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Kočevje with the correct year: After the Second World War, a Yugoslav labor camp for political prisoners operated in Kočevje until March ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Prešeren Square with the correct year: After the ______ Ljubljana earthquake, architect Max Fabiani designed the square as the hub of four streets.
  41. Complete the sentence about Prešeren Square with the correct year: Since 3 September ______, Prešeren Square has been closed for motorised traffic, except for a local tourist bus.
  42. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Castle with the correct year: Until ______ the castle became property of the House of Sponheim.
  43. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In the late ______, it was conquered by King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
  44. Complete the sentence about Celje Castle with the correct year: The earliest reference to Celje Castle dates from ______ and calls it “purch Cylie”.
  45. Complete the sentence about Celje Castle with the correct year: During an earthquake in ______, part of the Romanesque palace and the rock on which it stood were destroyed.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ptuj Castle with the correct year: In ______, due to financial hardship, the Jesuits sold the castle to the Holy Roman Field Marshal Walter Leslie, a Scot by birth.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ptuj Castle with the correct year: After the extinction of this line of Leslie family, the estate was inherited by their relatives, the House of Dietrichsteins, but they be…
  48. Complete the sentence about Predjama Castle with the correct year: The castle was first mentioned in ______ with the German name Luegg, when the Patriarch of Aquileia built the castle in Gothic style.
  49. Complete the sentence about Predjama Castle with the correct year: In ______, the second castle, built by the Purgstall family in the first decade of the 16th century, was destroyed in an earthquake.
  50. Complete the sentence about Predjama Castle with the correct year: In ______, Archduke Charles of Austria leased the castle to Baron Philipp von Cobenzl, who paid it off after 20 years.
  51. Complete the sentence about Predjama Castle with the correct year: In ______, the current castle was built in the Renaissance style, pressed next to a vertical cliff under the original medieval fortif…
  52. Complete the sentence about Bled Castle with the correct year: The castle was first mentioned in a deed of donation issued by Emperor Henry II to the bishops of Brixen on May 22, ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Otočec Castle with the correct year: In ______, it was burnt by the Partisans and only ruins remained of the two bridges.
  54. Complete the sentence about Vintgar Gorge with the correct year: The rest of the gorge was explored in ______ by the mayor of Gorje, Jakob Žumer, and by Benedikt Lergetporer, a prominent photographer…
  55. Complete the sentence about Karawanks with the correct year: The Kampfgruppe succeeded in its final task, and was one of the last German units to surrender, when it encountered the British 6th Armoure…
  56. Complete the sentence about Karawanks with the correct year: After World War II the Karawanks remained the border between Austria and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and finally the inde…
  57. Complete the sentence about Vipava Valley with the correct year: After ______, the upper part of the valley became one of the first centers of Partisan resistance in Italy.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kolpa with the correct year: The section from Stari Trg down to Fučkovci since ______ is part of the Slovenian Krajinski park Kolpa nature reserve.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ljubljanica with the correct year: One of the more significant findings is a yew spearhead, found in ______ in Sinja Gorica.
  60. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Istria with the correct year: In ______/09 it fell to the Patriarchs of Aquileia, while large parts of the estates were held by the comital House of Gorizia.
  61. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Istria with the correct year: After Napoleon's triumph in Northern Italy, the Treaty of Campo Formio in ______ gave most of the Venetian Republic and all of the p…
  62. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Littoral with the correct year: After they had acquired the Carniola hinterland in ______, the Habsburgs gradually took possession of the coastal areas.
  63. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Littoral with the correct year: With the Istrian march and the Imperial Free City of Trieste, it was re-arranged as the Austrian Littoral crown land in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Lower Carniola with the correct year: Since ______, Woodland Pristava, an annual electronic dance music festival, has been held in Pristava nad Stično.
  65. Complete the sentence about Styria with the correct year: By December ______, all of Lower Styria was de facto included in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
  66. Complete the sentence about Prekmurje with the correct year: After ______, this name was reintroduced, now for administrative purposes, by the new Yugoslav administration.
  67. Complete the sentence about Carinthia with the correct year: Since the entry of Slovenia into the European Union in May ______, much effort has been made to re-integrate Carinthia as a cultural, touri…
  68. Complete the sentence about Carinthia with the correct year: Upon the German Instrument of Surrender in May ______, Yugoslav Partisans entered the region, killing numerous alleged collaborators during…
  69. Complete the sentence about Carinthia with the correct year: After the war, the region formed part of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia, it became part of independent Slovenia after the brea…
  70. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: Prince Paul headed the state as a prince regent until Alexander's son Peter II was declared of-age, which happened following the Yugoslav…
  71. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: The kingdom was invaded and occupied by the Axis powers in April ______, marking the start of World War II in Yugoslavia.
  72. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, King Peter II, then living in exile, gave his recognition to the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia…
  73. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: In November ______, after the war ended, the regency council appointed by the King called a parliamentary election that established the Co…
  74. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: The Constituent Assembly proclaimed Yugoslavia a federal republic on 29 November ______, thus abolishing monarchical rule.
  75. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, he established the 6 January Dictatorship, and soon renamed the kingdom Yugoslavia.
  76. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: Alexander's cousin Paul ruled as Prince regent until ______, when Peter II came of age following a coup d'etat that reversed Yu…
  77. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In April ______, the country was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers.
  78. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, after pressure from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the King recognized the government of Democratic F…
  79. Complete the sentence about Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with the correct year: The country was renamed Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with the correct year: After Tito died on 4 May ______, the Yugoslav economy began to collapse, which increased unemployment and in…
  81. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Tito participated in the Russian Revolution in ______ and the Russian Civil War.
  82. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Upon his return to the Balkans in ______, he entered the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party…
  83. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: By the end of ______, the Partisans, with the Allies' backing, took power in Yugoslavia.
  84. Complete the sentence about Slovenia in World War II with the correct year: In ______, Slovene authors first published information about six villages in Lower Carniola that were annexed by the Indepen…
  85. Complete the sentence about Liberation Front of the Slovenian People with the correct year: The organisation was established in the Province of Ljubljana on 26 April ______ in the house of the literar…
  86. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The merger of the Slovene Partisans with Tito's forces happened in ______.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Bovec? The remains of the Italian soldiers were exhumed and transferred to the Italian military ossuary outside ______ in 1938.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Kočevje? In 1247 Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia, granted the area around ______ within the imperial March of Carniola to the Carinthian counts of Ortenburg.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Slovenian Littoral? In the second half of the 14th century, they acquired ______ and the Upper Vipava Valley from the Patriarchate of Aquileia, followed by Du…
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Murska Sobota? In April 2006, the town became the see of the newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota, which is a suffragan to the archdiocese of…
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Domžale? In 1980, the construction of modern apartments began and Domžale became known as a bedroom community of ______.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Prešeren Square? After the 1895 ______ earthquake, architect Max Fabiani designed the square as the hub of four streets.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Ljubljana Castle? The first ______ Castle is believed to have been a wooden and stone fortification built in the 11th century.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Triple Bridge? Dating back to the 13th century, it stands as the oldest bridge in ______.
  95. Which place completes the sentence? Since 2007, all the three bridges have been part of the ______ pedestrian-only zone.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Maribor Castle? During the Middle Ages, the old and new built castle belonged to the important Lordship ______.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Celje Castle? The earliest reference to ______ Castle dates from 1322 and calls it “purch Cylie”.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Celje Castle? In 1333, the castle came into the possession of the Lords of Sanneck, who from 1341 onward were the Counts of ______.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Ptuj Castle? When the castle was built, the town of ______ was part of the Archdiocese of Salzburg.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Upper Carniola? The largest town in the region is ______, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Domžale and Škofja Loka.

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