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  1. Complete the sentence about Prague with the correct year: Since ______, the historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
  2. Complete the sentence about Prague with the correct year: In ______, Prague was listed as the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.
  3. Complete the sentence about Brno with the correct year: Brno served as the capital of Moravia from the Middle Ages until ______, and remains the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region…
  4. Complete the sentence about Brno with the correct year: The Masaryk Circuit has been hosting motorsport events since ______, including the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix.
  5. Complete the sentence about Ostrava with the correct year: On 14 September ______, Ostrava's City Authority approved the division of the city into 22 boroughs, effective 24 November that year.
  6. Complete the sentence about Ostrava with the correct year: On 1 January ______, Plesná separated from Poruba and became a separate borough.
  7. Complete the sentence about Ostrava with the correct year: A turning point in Ostrava's history came in ______ with the discovery of extensive deposits of high-quality bituminous coal on the Silesian…
  8. Complete the sentence about Plzeň with the correct year: The historic city centre is protected as an urban monument reservation known for its Baroque architecture, and was European Capital of Culture…
  9. Complete the sentence about Liberec with the correct year: The first written mention of Liberec under its German name Reichenberg is from ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Liberec with the correct year: Starting in ______, the area was owned by the noble Bieberstein family.
  11. Complete the sentence about Liberec with the correct year: Reichenberg suffered from the passing through of troops during the Hussite Wars, then was burned down in ______ during a battle with the army…
  12. Complete the sentence about České Budějovice with the correct year: When the royal city was founded in ______, the name appeared as Budwoyz and then it was adapted to Budweis.
  13. Complete the sentence about Hradec Králové with the correct year: From ______, Hradec Králové was a dowry town ruled by Bohemian queens, which helped further development of the city.
  14. Complete the sentence about Hradec Králové with the correct year: The document from ______ that mentioned Hradec is a forgery from the 12th century.
  15. Complete the sentence about Hradec Králové with the correct year: The first written mention of the settlement of Hradec is from ______ and it was already referred to as a city.
  16. Complete the sentence about Hradec Králové with the correct year: In ______, Hradec became a dowry town ruled by Bohemian queens.
  17. Complete the sentence about Ústí nad Labem with the correct year: Ústí nad Labem was founded in the 12th century and became a royal town in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Pardubice with the correct year: In ______, when Pardubice was inherited by Arnošt of Pardubice, it was first referred to as a city.
  19. Complete the sentence about Pardubice with the correct year: In ______, Pardubice was bought by Vilém II of Pernštejn, who continued to expand the city and made a significant impact on its prosperity.
  20. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the city's name was changed back to Zlín.
  21. Complete the sentence about Zlín with the correct year: The first written mention of Zlín is from ______, when it was acquired by Queen Elizabeth Richeza.
  22. Complete the sentence about Zlín with the correct year: From ______, the Zlín estate was owned by Bishop Albrecht of Šternberk and soon became the seat of the Moravian branch of the Šternberk family.
  23. Complete the sentence about Zlín with the correct year: The Hussite Wars badly affected properties of the Sternbergs and they were forced to sell Zlín in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Kladno with the correct year: The first written mention of Kladno is from ______, when it was a property of the Kladenský of Kladno noble family.
  25. Complete the sentence about Kladno with the correct year: After ______, when the Kladenský of Kladno family died out, it became a property of the Žďárský of Žďár family.
  26. Complete the sentence about Kladno with the correct year: In ______, the Žďárskýs of Žďár rebuilt the local fort into a Renaissance castle.
  27. Complete the sentence about Kladno with the correct year: The town prospered until the Battle of White Mountain in ______, when it was looted by Polish Cossacks.
  28. Complete the sentence about Most with the correct year: In ______ Kojata, the last Hrabišic, passed his property to the Zderaz Monastery, but King Wenceslaus I used the right of escheat and took Most…
  29. Complete the sentence about Opava with the correct year: In ______, Karl I of Liechtenstein became Duke of Opava and merged the duchy with the Duchy of Krnov.
  30. Complete the sentence about Opava with the correct year: The Congress of Troppau took place here from 24 October to 23 December ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Opava with the correct year: After the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, Opava became part of Czechoslovakia in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Opava with the correct year: In ______, Opava was ceded to Nazi Germany as a result of the Munich Agreement.
  33. Complete the sentence about Frýdek-Místek with the correct year: The then owner, bishop Stanislav Pavlovský, decided to split the estate and sell Frýdek in ______, and merged Místek with the Hukvaldy…
  34. Complete the sentence about Frýdek-Místek with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the Germans joined the previously separate towns of Frýdek and Místek into a single town called Frýdek.
  35. Complete the sentence about Karviná with the correct year: In October ______, the area was annexed by Poland as part of the region known as Trans-Olza, and during World War II it was occupied by Nazi…
  36. Complete the sentence about Karviná with the correct year: In ______, Karviná, Fryštát, and the surrounding villages of Darkov, Ráj and Staré Město were merged into one city named Karviná.
  37. Complete the sentence about Jihlava with the correct year: The city was severely damaged by a fire in ______ and devastated in the Thirty Years' War but eventually recovered.
  38. Complete the sentence about Jihlava with the correct year: Jihlava was originally a Slavic market village with a small Church of Saint John the Baptist, established on a trade route around ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Teplice with the correct year: Teplice was first documented in ______, when the oldest Czech spa was founded.
  40. Complete the sentence about Teplice with the correct year: A fortified town arose around the monastery, which was destroyed in the course of the Hussite Wars after the ______ Battle of Aussig.
  41. Complete the sentence about Teplice with the correct year: Consequently, and until ______, Teplice Castle was the primarily seat of the princely Clary-Aldringen family.
  42. Complete the sentence about Teplice with the correct year: After a blaze in ______, large parts of the town were rebuilt in a Neoclassical style.
  43. Complete the sentence about Karlovy Vary with the correct year: After the Velvet Revolution in ______, Karlovy Vary once again became a major tourist destination.
  44. Complete the sentence about Chomutov with the correct year: The first written mention of Chomutov is a donation deed from ______, when it came into the possession of the Teutonic Order.
  45. Complete the sentence about Chomutov with the correct year: On 16 March ______, the town was stormed, sacked and burned by the Taborites.
  46. Complete the sentence about Přerov with the correct year: King Ottokar II of Bohemia gave Přerov the privilege of being a royal town in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Jablonec nad Nisou with the correct year: Jablonec nad Nisou was founded in the 14th century, but it only became a town in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Jablonec nad Nisou with the correct year: In ______, the official suffix in both Czech and German became 'on the Neisse', which described the location of the city upon the…
  49. Complete the sentence about Jablonec nad Nisou with the correct year: The first written mention of Jablonec was in a Latin document from ______ as Jablonecz.
  50. Complete the sentence about Mladá Boleslav with the correct year: In ______, Lords of Michalovice acquired Mladá Boleslav from King John of Bohemia.
  51. Complete the sentence about Prostějov with the correct year: Before ______, Prostějov was acquired by the Lords of Kravaře and joined to the Plumlov estate.
  52. Complete the sentence about Prostějov with the correct year: In ______, the Plumov estate with Prostějov was bought by the Pernštejn family and the construction of the town walls began.
  53. Complete the sentence about Třebíč with the correct year: The first written mention of Třebíč is from ______, when a Benedictine monastery was established here.
  54. Complete the sentence about Třebíč with the correct year: In ______, Třebíč was conquered and destroyed by Matthias Corvinus, including the monastery.
  55. Complete the sentence about Česká Lípa with the correct year: The first written mention of the settlement of Lipá is from ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Česká Lípa with the correct year: Town walls were constructed at the beginning of the 14th century as well as the parish Church of Saints Paul and Peter, which was destroye…
  57. Complete the sentence about Česká Lípa with the correct year: In ______, Henry of Lipá sold the castle with its surroundings to his cousin Hynek Berka.
  58. Complete the sentence about Třinec with the correct year: Politically, the village then belonged to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after ______ became part of the Habsbur…
  59. Complete the sentence about Tábor with the correct year: Tábor was founded by the Hussites in ______ and named after the bibical Mount Tabor.
  60. Complete the sentence about Tábor with the correct year: In the middle of the town lies the Jordán Reservoir, which was created in ______ and named after the biblical Jordan River.
  61. Complete the sentence about Tábor with the correct year: After the defeat of the Hussites in the Battle of Lipany, the Taborites reconciled with King Sigismund, and in ______, it was promoted by Sigis…
  62. Complete the sentence about Tábor with the correct year: In ______, the town surrendered to the troops under the command of the country's steward of George of Poděbrady.
  63. Complete the sentence about Kutná Hora with the correct year: At the Celtic settlement site between Libenice and Kaňk, numerous ceramic finds from the 5th–1st century BC were discovered in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Kutná Hora with the correct year: In ______, the Sedlec Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery in Bohemia, was founded in the area of Sedlec by the monks from the Waldsassen…
  65. Complete the sentence about Kutná Hora with the correct year: Shortly after ______, Kutná Hora became the seat of the central mint of the Czech lands, in which Prague groschen were minted.
  66. Complete the sentence about Kutná Hora with the correct year: In December ______, the town was the target of King Sigismund during his conquest of Kutná Hora after the imprisonment of Wenceslaus IV.
  67. Complete the sentence about Kutná Hora with the correct year: In ______, Sigismund made the town the base for his unsuccessful attack on the Taborites during the Hussite Wars, leading to the Battle of…
  68. Complete the sentence about Český Krumlov with the correct year: The Český Krumlov Castle was founded shortly before ______ by a local branch of the noble Vítkovci family, descendants of Witiko of Prč…
  69. Complete the sentence about Český Krumlov with the correct year: The first written mention of Český Krumlov was in a ______ deed as Chrumbenowe.
  70. Complete the sentence about Telč with the correct year: The counter-reformation brought the Jesuits to the town, who built the Church of the Name of Jesus in ______, and founded the Jesuit Latin Gramm…
  71. Complete the sentence about Mariánské Lázně with the correct year: The springs first appear in a document dating from ______ where they are called "the Auschowitzer springs" belonging to the Teplá Abb…
  72. Complete the sentence about Františkovy Lázně with the correct year: About ______, an inn was erected at the site of a mineral spring later known as Franzensquelle.
  73. Complete the sentence about Františkovy Lázně with the correct year: On 27 April ______, the town was officially founded under the name Kaiser Franzensdorf, after Emperor Francis II, and later renamed…
  74. Complete the sentence about Špindlerův Mlýn with the correct year: In ______, the occupiers organized the German Ski Championships in the town.
  75. Complete the sentence about Špindlerův Mlýn with the correct year: The construction of the road from Vrchlabí in ______ significantly contributed to the greater number of tourists.
  76. Complete the sentence about Cheb with the correct year: Before the expulsion of Germans in ______, the town was the centre of the German-speaking region known as Egerland.
  77. Complete the sentence about Znojmo with the correct year: Znojmo was founded shortly before ______, but the Znojmo Castle is older.
  78. Complete the sentence about Znojmo with the correct year: Around ______, the administrative centre was moved from the gord to a new castle, today known as the Znojmo Castle.
  79. Complete the sentence about Znojmo with the correct year: In ______, Moravian Duke Luitpold of Znojmo built the Rotunda of Saint Catherine in the castle.
  80. Complete the sentence about Litomyšl with the correct year: In ______, Litomyšl was promoted to a town by King Ottokar II.
  81. Complete the sentence about Litomyšl with the correct year: Until ______, the town was a part of Austria-Hungary, head of the district with the same name, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Boh…
  82. Complete the sentence about Kroměříž with the correct year: The Knights Hospitaller settled here and built a church and a commandery in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Kroměříž with the correct year: Kroměříž is last referred to as a market village in a document by King Ottokar II from ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Kroměříž with the correct year: After ______, the Olomouc bishop Bruno von Schauenburg came to power over Kroměříž.
  85. Complete the sentence about Terezín with the correct year: On 10 January ______, Habsburg Emperor Joseph II ordered the erection of the fortress, named Theresienstadt after his mother Empress Maria Th…
  86. Complete the sentence about Terezín with the correct year: The construction of Theresienstadt started at the westernmost cavalier on 10 October ______ and lasted ten years.
  87. Complete the sentence about Terezín with the correct year: During the construction, in ______, Theresienstadt became a free royal town.
  88. Complete the sentence about Lidice with the correct year: The first written mention of Lidice is from ______, in a chronicle written by Peter of Zittau.
  89. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 10 June ______, 172 boys and men between age 14 to 84 were shot.
  90. Complete the sentence about Lidice with the correct year: In ______, the British author Gerald Kersh lightly fictionalized the massacre in the short novel The Dead Look On.
  91. Complete the sentence about Prague Castle with the correct year: In ______, King Vladislaus II Jagiellon began to rebuild the castle.
  92. Complete the sentence about Charles Bridge with the correct year: As the only means of crossing the river Vltava until ______, Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle an…
  93. Complete the sentence about Charles Bridge with the correct year: Czech legend has it that construction began on Charles Bridge at 5:31am on 9 July ______ with the first stone being laid by Charles IV…
  94. Complete the sentence about Old Town Square with the correct year: The statue known as the Jan Hus Memorial was erected on 6 July ______ to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.
  95. Complete the sentence about Old Town Square with the correct year: The crosses were installed during the repairs of the Old Town Hall after the Second World War, while a nearby plaque which lists the…
  96. Complete the sentence about Prague astronomical clock with the correct year: The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Vyšehrad with the correct year: The period of growth ended around ______ when Prince Soběslav moved his seat back to Prague Castle.
  98. Complete the sentence about Vyšehrad with the correct year: At the beginning of the Hussite Wars, the Hussites conquered and ransacked Vyšehrad in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The troops of King George of Poděbrady did the same in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Petřín with the correct year: The Petřín Lookout Tower, which strongly resembles the Eiffel Tower, was built atop the hill in ______.

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