Croatian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Croatia with the correct year: With the nearby Principality of Lower Pannonia, it was united and elevated into the Kingdom of Croatia which lasted from 925 untilā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Croatia with the correct year: Following the First World War and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in ______, Croatian lands were incorporated into the Kingdomā€¦
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Croatia with the correct year: The Socialist Republic of Croatia was formed as a constituent republic of Socialist Yugoslavia until Croatia proclaimed independenā€¦
  4. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Croatia with the correct year: The state was ruled mostly by the Trpimirović dynasty until ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Petar KreŔimir IV of Croatia with the correct year: KreŔimir succeeded his father Stephen I upon his death in ______ and was crowned the next year.
  6. Complete the sentence about Dmitar Zvonimir with the correct year: The neighboring Holy Roman Empire under Henry IV invaded Hungary in ______ to restore Solomon, husband of his sister, to the Hungariaā€¦
  7. Complete the sentence about Dmitar Zvonimir with the correct year: Shortly afterwards in ______ Zvonimir is first mentioned as a Ban of Croatia in three charters from Zadar, succeeding Ban Gojčo.
  8. Complete the sentence about Dmitar Zvonimir with the correct year: In March ______, Normans from southern Italy, led by Count Amico of Giovinazzo, invaded Dalmatia on the invitation of Dalmatian citieā€¦
  9. Complete the sentence about Dmitar Zvonimir with the correct year: Norman crisis lasted until February ______, when Venice expelled Amico and his forces from Dalmatia.
  10. Complete the sentence about Habsburg monarchy with the correct year: In ______, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage.
  11. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia with the correct year: One week later, on 29 October ______, the Croatian State Sabor proclaimed an independent kingdom which entered the Stateā€¦
  12. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia with the correct year: The order of mentioning Dalmatia was a contentious issue, as it was ordered differently in the Croatian- and Hungarian-laā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Matija Gubec with the correct year: The name Matija first appears in the work of the Hungarian historian MiklĆ³s IstvĆ”nffy in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Nikola Å ubić Zrinski with the correct year: Zrinski already distinguished himself in the early twenties during the Siege of Vienna in ______, for which was awarded with a hā€¦
  15. Complete the sentence about Nikola Å ubić Zrinski with the correct year: In ______, Zrinski won a series of victories over the Ottomans, culminating in the battle of BabĆ³csa, and thus preventing the faā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Nikola Šubić Zrinski with the correct year: In ______, Zrinski brought a copy of the Holy Crown of Hungary to Vienna for the funeral ceremony of Ferdinand I.
  17. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Upon his return in ______, he clashed with the Ottomans near Nagykanizsa.
  18. Complete the sentence about Petar Zrinski with the correct year: Due to forceful seizure of a land parcel near Rijeka, he was accused of treason, but was later pardoned in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Petar Zrinski with the correct year: All such efforts proved unavailing ā€“ in fact, the High Porte informed Leopold of the conspiracy in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Josip Jelačić with the correct year: On the 11th of March ______ Jelačić joined the Austrian army with the rank of lieutenant in the Vinko Freiherr von Knežević Regiment, nā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Josip Jelačić with the correct year: In ______, he served as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Galicia.
  22. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he fell ill and stayed in his parents' house in Zagreb.
  23. Complete the sentence about Josip Jelačić with the correct year: In ______ he returned to his regiment in Vienna, where he was appointed first lieutenant and aide to the brigade commander.
  24. Complete the sentence about Josip Jelačić with the correct year: In ______, he became a lieutenant captain in the Ogulin regiment.
  25. Complete the sentence about Josip Jelačić with the correct year: On 17 October ______, he led a military campaign against Bosnian Ottoman troops in Velika KladuÅ”a for which he received a medal.
  26. Complete the sentence about Illyrian movement with the correct year: Members of the Illyrian movement were heavily influenced by the ______ publication Croatia Rediviva.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ljudevit Gaj with the correct year: Gaj died in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, in ______ at the age of 62.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ljudevit Gaj with the correct year: Gaj married 26-year-old Paulina Krizmanić, niece of an abbott, in ______ at Marija Bistrica.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ante Starčević with the correct year: In ______, when Fiume was implicated in participation in protests against the Austrian Empire, he was suspended and sentenced to one mā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about Ante Starčević with the correct year: In ______ he was arrested again following the Rakovica revolt that was launched by Kvaternik, which sought independence from Habsburgā€¦
  31. Complete the sentence about Ante Starčević with the correct year: On his deathbed, he requested that no monuments be raised to his honor, but his statue was put up in front of Starčević House in _____ā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Ante Starčević with the correct year: As the chief notary in Fiume in ______, Starčević wrote "the four petitions of the Rijeka county".
  33. Complete the sentence about Stjepan Radić with the correct year: In ______, Radić travelled to Đakovo where he met with bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer to request help for a trip to the Russian Empire.
  34. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In September ______, he enrolled in law at the University of Zagreb.
  35. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, he established the 6 January Dictatorship, and soon renamed the kingdom Yugoslavia.
  36. 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 Yuā€¦
  37. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In April ______, the country was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers.
  38. 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 Fā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Independent State of Croatia with the correct year: On 20 June ______, Stjepan Radić and four other Croat deputies were shot while in the Belgrade parliament by a member ofā€¦
  40. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Tito participated in the Russian Revolution in ______ and the Russian Civil War.
  41. 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 Partyā€¦
  42. 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.
  43. Complete the sentence about Croatian Spring with the correct year: In early ______, Kardelj persuaded Tito to remove Ranković from the SKJ Central Committee and dismiss him as vice president of Yugoslā€¦
  44. Complete the sentence about Croatian Spring with the correct year: The peak of the reformist coalition occurred at the 9th congress of the SKJ in March ______, during which decentralisation of all aspā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence about Franjo Tuđman with the correct year: In ______, he became a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences.
  46. Complete the sentence about Franjo Tuđman with the correct year: Tuđman participated in the Croatian Spring movement that called for reforms in the country, and was imprisoned for his activities in __ā€¦
  47. Complete the sentence about Franjo Tuđman with the correct year: HDZ won the first Croatian parliamentary elections in ______, and Tuđman became the President of the Presidency of SR Croatia.
  48. Complete the sentence about Franjo Tuđman with the correct year: On 19 May ______, an independence referendum was held, which was approved by 93 percent of voters.
  49. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Croatian War of Independence with the correct year: In ______, Croatia launched two major offensives known as Operation Flash and Operation Storm; these offensives effectivā€¦
  51. Complete the sentence about Croatian War of Independence with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, the Serbian government pressured the Croatian government to allow a series of Serb nationalistā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vukovar with the correct year: The JNA began to intervene in favour of the rebellion, and conflict broke out in the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia in May ___ā€¦
  53. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vukovar with the correct year: Vukovar remained in Serb hands until ______, when it was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia with the signing of the Erdut Agreemeā€¦
  54. Complete the sentence about Siege of Dubrovnik with the correct year: The entire region was recaptured by the HV in Operation Tiger and the Battle of Konavle by the end of ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Siege of Dubrovnik with the correct year: In ______, Montenegrin president Milo Đukanović apologized for the siege, eliciting an angry response from his political opponentsā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Accession of Croatia to the European Union with the correct year: The most recent enlargement of the European Union saw Croatia become the European Union's 28th member statā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Accession of Croatia to the European Union with the correct year: Candidate country status was granted to Croatia by the European Council in mid-______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Accession of Croatia to the European Union with the correct year: The entry negotiations, while originally set for March ______, began in October that year together with thā€¦
  59. Complete the sentence about Croatian kuna with the correct year: In ______, when the UstaŔe regime formed the Independent State of Croatia, they used the kuna as its currency.
  60. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Croatia with the correct year: Following the first multi-party parliamentary elections held in April ______, the Parliament made various constitutional chanā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Croatian Parliament with the correct year: The oldest Sabor with extant records was held in Zagreb on 19 April ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Croatian Parliament with the correct year: The earliest recorded Sabor of the Kingdom of Croatia and Dalmatia dates to ______ in Podgrađe near Benkovac.
  63. Complete the sentence about Croatian Parliament with the correct year: The Parliament session held in ______ in Cetin affirmed the House of Habsburg as Croatian rulers.
  64. Complete the sentence about Croatian Parliament with the correct year: Since ______, it has been formally called the Diet of the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia.
  65. Complete the sentence about President of Croatia with the correct year: The Office of the President was created by a presidential decree by Franjo Tuđman on 19 January ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Croatia with the correct year: The newly-elected Croatian Parliament enacted numerous amendments to the constitution on 25 July ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Croatia with the correct year: The country then signed the July ______ Brijuni Agreement in which it agreed to postpone further activities towards severinā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Croatia with the correct year: Croatia formally declared itself independent on 25 June ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Croatian Armed Forces with the correct year: The Croatian Navy was created to a large extent with the successful capture of about a quarter of the Yugoslav Navy vessels inā€¦
  70. Complete the sentence about BaÅ”ka tablet with the correct year: The tablet was discovered on 15 September ______ by Petar Dorčić during paving of the Church of St.
  71. Complete the sentence about BaŔka tablet with the correct year: Since ______, the original tablet has been kept at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb.
  72. Complete the sentence about Vinodol Codex with the correct year: The first printed edition was prepared in ______ by Antun Mažuranić in the third yearly volume of the journal Kolo.
  73. Complete the sentence about Vinodol Codex with the correct year: Vatroslav Jagić published it in ______, both the original and a Russian translation with philological and legal commentary.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Tomislav of Croatia? Croatia maintained its northern borders and expanded into part of the collapsed Pannonian Duchy, including its former capital ______.
  75. Which place completes the sentence? Mary in ______, where the founder and first nun was his cousin, the abbess Čika.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Dmitar Zvonimir? Shortly afterwards in 1070 Zvonimir is first mentioned as a Ban of Croatia in three charters from ______, succeeding Ban Gojčo.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Republic of Ragusa? Named after Saint Blaise, the patron saint of ______, their colony was established as Sao Braz between 1530 and 1535, amid broader Portuguā€¦
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Petar Zrinski? Due to forceful seizure of a land parcel near ______, he was accused of treason, but was later pardoned in 1647.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Ante Starčević? As the chief notary in Fiume in 1861, Starčević wrote "the four petitions of the ______ county".
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Stjepan Radić? Stjepan Radić was born in Desno Trebarjevo, Martinska Ves near ______ in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within Austria-Hungary as the ninth ofā€¦
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Independent State of Croatia? Out of the 22 concentration camps in NDH-controlled territory, Jasenovac was the largest while Jastrebarsko and ______ held onlyā€¦
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Vukovar? When ______ fell on 18 November 1991, several hundred soldiers and civilians were massacred by Serb forces and at least 20,000 inhabitantsā€¦
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Vukovar? Most of ______ was ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population and became part of the self-declared proto-state known as the Republic ofā€¦
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Siege of Dubrovnik? Fighting between the HV and Yugoslav troops east of ______ gradually died down.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Croatian Armed Forces? The Croatian Navy was created to a large extent with the successful capture of about a quarter of the Yugoslav Navy vessels in ______ iā€¦
  86. Complete the sentence about Ljudevit Gaj with the correct year: In ______, a total of 211 streets in Croatia were named after Ljudevit Gaj, making him the fourth most common person eponym of streets iā€¦
  87. Complete the sentence about Croatian War of Independence with the correct year: The International Court of Justice dismissed mutual claims of genocide by Croatia and Serbia in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Pacta conventa with the correct year: After Petar Snačić, the last Croatian king of Croat descent, was killed on the battlefield in ______, the Croats had refused to surrenā€¦
  89. Complete the sentence about Battle of Krbava Field with the correct year: Earlier in the summer of ______, the Ottomans undertook a raid through Croatia into Carniola and Styria.
  90. Complete the sentence about Battle of Krbava Field with the correct year: One such raid began in September ______, with the Ottoman cavalry crossing the Kupa River and reaching Carniola.
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The defeat at Vrpile forced the Ottomans to stop their attacks during ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Zrinskiā€“Frankopan conspiracy with the correct year: The changes allowed the Sultan to invade and conquer the Transylvanian-held areas of Hungary in May ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Military Frontier with the correct year: In ______, they were placed under the direct control of the Habsburg military.
  94. Complete the sentence about Military Frontier with the correct year: For more than two centuries, they would retain complete civilian and military authority over the area, up to the abolition of the Mā€¦
  95. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Karlowitz with the correct year: Therefore, the areas that were lost 27 years earlier in the Treaty of Buchach in ______ were regained.
  96. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Karlowitz with the correct year: Commissions were set-up to demarcate the new borders between the Austrians and the Ottomans, with some parts disputed until _____ā€¦
  97. Complete the sentence about Croatian Peasant Party with the correct year: After the creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia in ______, the party requested self-determination for the Croatian part of the kinā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence about Croatian Peasant Party with the correct year: After the assassination of Stjepan Radić in ______, Vladko Maček became the new president of HSS.
  99. Complete the sentence about Croatian Peasant Party with the correct year: After King Alexander declared a dictatorship in ______, HSS was banned and its members prosecuted.
  100. Complete the sentence about Banovina of Croatia with the correct year: In the Vidovdan Constitution of ______, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had established 33 administrative districts, eaā€¦

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