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  1. Complete the sentence about Tiraspol with the correct year: In ______ the Russian army built fortifications to guard the western border near a Moldavian village named Sucleia.
  2. Complete the sentence about Tiraspol with the correct year: In ______, the Russian government established a customs house in Tiraspol to try to suppress smuggling.
  3. Complete the sentence about Tiraspol with the correct year: In December ______, Tiraspol hosted a congress of Transnistrian Moldovans, at which they wished to unite the city with Bessarabia.
  4. Complete the sentence about Bălți with the correct year: The current coat of arms and flag of Bălți, elaborated by Silviu Tabac from the Moldovan State Commission for Heraldry, were adopted by the Mun…
  5. Complete the sentence about Bender, Moldova with the correct year: Bender is located in the buffer zone established at the end of the ______ War of Transnistria.
  6. Complete the sentence about Bender, Moldova with the correct year: The fortress of Tighina was one of the important historic fortresses of the Principality of Moldova until ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Bender, Moldova with the correct year: The town was first mentioned as an important customs post in a commerce grant issued by the Moldavian voivode Alexander the Good to t…
  8. Complete the sentence about Bender, Moldova with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the town from Moldavia, and renamed it Bender.
  9. Complete the sentence about Rîbnița with the correct year: Following the Second Partition of Poland, in ______, Rîbnița passed from Poland to Russia.
  10. Complete the sentence about Rîbnița with the correct year: Leaving the ghetto without permission was strictly forbidden, with 48 Jews being executed on April 4, ______ for being found outside the ghet…
  11. Complete the sentence about Cahul with the correct year: On 28 January ______, Traian Băsescu visited the future headquarters of the Romanian consulate in Cahul.
  12. Complete the sentence about Ungheni with the correct year: The first historical mention of Ungheni dates to 20 August ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Ungheni with the correct year: In ______, after the spring flooding of the river Prut, the railway bridge that linked Moldova and Romania was almost destroyed.
  14. Complete the sentence about Soroca with the correct year: First mentioned in ______, the town had one of the oldest Jewish populations in Eastern Europe.
  15. Complete the sentence about Orhei with the correct year: After centuries under Moldavian rule, Orhei was ceded to the Russian Empire in ______ following the Russo-Turkish wars.
  16. Complete the sentence about Orhei with the correct year: After World War II, the town was rebuilt, and in ______ it became part of the Republic of Moldova.
  17. Complete the sentence about Comrat with the correct year: In ______ a settlement called "Cumrad" was depicted in the area of the present day city on map of Moldova by F.
  18. Complete the sentence about Comrat with the correct year: During this time it was in the Tighina County and in ______ it was given the status of a town.
  19. Complete the sentence about Comrat with the correct year: Designed by Emmanuel Hadji-Mosco, Dionisie Pecurariu and was adopted on September 30, ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Comrat with the correct year: A decision was taken on September 13, ______ to reunite the settlements.
  21. Complete the sentence about Dubăsari with the correct year: In the course of World War II, in ______, when Bessarabia was occupied by the Soviet Union, Dubăsari became part of the newly created Moldav…
  22. Complete the sentence about Dubăsari with the correct year: Following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, German and Romanian forces occupied Dubăsari on 24 July ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Hîncești with the correct year: During World War II, it was occupied by the Soviet Union in ______, which changed its name to Kotovskoe after Grigore Kotovski, who was born…
  24. Complete the sentence about Edineț with the correct year: A document dating August 18, ______, given by Prince Constantin Movilă to Cozma Pop, mentions the village as Iadineți.
  25. Complete the sentence about Edineț with the correct year: The name Edineț is documented since ______, and is still used today.
  26. Complete the sentence about Edineț with the correct year: In ______, the eastern part of Moldavia was annexed by the Russian Empire and became known as Governorate of Bessarabia.
  27. Complete the sentence about Edineț with the correct year: Bessarabia proclaimed independence in January ______ as the Moldavian Democratic Republic.
  28. Complete the sentence about Edineț with the correct year: In April ______, Bessarabia proclaimed union with Romania, this came as a result of the World War I.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ceadîr-Lunga with the correct year: By local accounts the settlement was founded around ______, by migrants from Ceadîr in Cahul County who settled the Lunga valley, thus i…
  30. Complete the sentence about Ceadîr-Lunga with the correct year: The priest Zacharias Chakir opened the first Bulgarian school in Bessarabia in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Cimișlia with the correct year: Although in ______ Cimişlia became an administrative center, many of its residents died of a plague and there was need of a special cemetery…
  32. Complete the sentence about Ialoveni with the correct year: On 25 March ______ the settlement was renamed Kutuzov, and its status was changed to urban-type settlement.
  33. Complete the sentence about Ialoveni with the correct year: In ______, after Moldova became independent, on citizens' demand, the municipality re-took its old name – Ialoveni.
  34. Complete the sentence about Vadul lui Vodă with the correct year: The settlement of Vadul lui Vodă was first mentioned in historical chronicles in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Călărași with the correct year: Călărași appeared for the first time in ______ on a map drawn by Constantin Cantacuzino.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ocnița with the correct year: According to the ______ Romanian census, the population was 96.1% Romanian, 1.7% Russian, 0.81% Jewish, 0.44% Ukrainian and 0.37% Polish.
  37. Complete the sentence about Dniester with the correct year: From the 14th century to ______, part of the Dniester formed the eastern boundary of the Principality of Moldavia.
  38. Complete the sentence about Dniester with the correct year: In ______, on Easter Sunday, the bridge was blown up by the French Army to protect Bender from the Bolsheviks.
  39. Complete the sentence about Prut with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman army of Suleiman the Magnificent crossed the Prut during the campaign of Karaboğdan.
  40. Complete the sentence about Prut with the correct year: In ______, the Greek Nationalist leader Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Prut river at Sculeni, with the intention of touching off a rebellion i…
  41. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The Middle Mongolian name for the Danube was transliterated as Tho-na in ______ by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat.
  42. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: In ______, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War.
  44. Complete the sentence about Transnistria with the correct year: Shortly afterwards, a military conflict between the two parties started in March ______ and concluded with a ceasefire in July that year…
  45. Complete the sentence about Transnistria with the correct year: In March ______, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution that defines the territory as under military o…
  46. Complete the sentence about Transnistria with the correct year: In ______, the Moldavian ASSR was proclaimed within the Ukrainian SSR.
  47. Complete the sentence about Transnistria with the correct year: In ______, after Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union in the Second World War, they defeated the Soviet troops in the region and occupie…
  48. Complete the sentence about Gagauzia with the correct year: Bessarabia, previously the eastern half of the Principality of Moldavia, was annexed by the Russian Empire in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Bessarabia with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet-Romanian border along the Prut was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Paris that formally ended hostilities…
  50. Complete the sentence about Bessarabia with the correct year: Part of the Gagauz-inhabited areas in southern Bessarabia was organized in ______ as an autonomous region within Moldova.
  51. Complete the sentence about Budjak with the correct year: After ______, the term Bessarabia came to apply to all of Moldavia east of the Prut River.
  52. Complete the sentence about Moldavia with the correct year: The Bolohoveni disappeared from chronicles after their defeat in ______ by Daniel of Galicia's troops.
  53. Complete the sentence about Moldavia with the correct year: In ______, the future Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, was taken prisoner by Vlach shepherds in the same region.
  54. Complete the sentence about Moldavia with the correct year: In ______, Dragoș, mentioned as a Vlach Knyaz in Maramureș, was sent by Louis I to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde forc…
  55. Complete the sentence about Codri with the correct year: The scientific Codru Reserve was established in Moldavian SSR in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Căpriana Monastery with the correct year: The first significant reference dates from a document issued in ______ that gave Căpriana the status of royal monastery on behalf…
  57. Complete the sentence about Curchi Monastery with the correct year: The Baroque cathedral Nașterea Domnului was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, inspired by the Church of St Andrew in Kyiv, and built…
  58. Complete the sentence about Noul Neamț Monastery with the correct year: The monastery was founded in ______, when several monks from the Neamț monastery left and founded Noul-Neamț in Chițcani.
  59. Complete the sentence about Noul Neamț Monastery with the correct year: At the time, Chițcani, like all of Bessarabia, was part of the Russian Empire since ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Noul Neamț Monastery with the correct year: On 16 May ______ Soviet authorities closed the monastery; the buildings became a hospital.
  61. Complete the sentence about Noul Neamț Monastery with the correct year: Since ______, the town is controlled by the internationally not recognised state of Transnistria.
  62. Complete the sentence about Purcari winery with the correct year: In ______, the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas I, issued a special decree granting Purcari the status of the first specialized winery in B…
  63. Complete the sentence about Purcari winery with the correct year: By ______, the winery was being celebrated in a closed wine tasting at the Paris World Expo.
  64. Complete the sentence about Purcari winery with the correct year: A new chapter in Purcari's history began in the ______ post-war era, when the Moldovan winemakers restored the classic production tech…
  65. Complete the sentence about Bender Fortress with the correct year: In ______ it was conquered by the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who ordered it to be rebuilt in stone and enlarged.
  66. Complete the sentence about Bender Fortress with the correct year: The fortress, having been rebuilt by Petru Rareș and conquered in ______ by the Turkish sultan Soliman the Magnificent, became the re…
  67. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great Monument with the correct year: The monument to Stephen the Great was designed by architect Alexandru Plămădeală in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great Monument with the correct year: A few days before the ______ Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, the monument was relocated to Vaslui…
  69. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great Monument with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet authorities ordered the restoration of the monument to Chișinău.
  70. Complete the sentence about Stephen the Great Monument with the correct year: On 31 August ______ the monument to Stephen the Great was returned to its original location, chosen by Alexandru Plămădeal…
  71. Complete the sentence about Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău with the correct year: The bell tower was destroyed in ______, and the cathedral was transformed into an exhibition centre during the Soviet pe…
  72. Complete the sentence about Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău with the correct year: The cathedral was bombed during World War II, and its bell tower was destroyed by the local Communists in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău with the correct year: In ______ the Bank of Moldova minted a commemorative coin to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the building of the cath…
  74. Complete the sentence about Chișinău International Airport with the correct year: On 31 May ______, Chișinău Airport was awarded the status of an international airport.
  75. Complete the sentence about Chișinău International Airport with the correct year: A major modernization and renovation of the airport was completed in ______ by the Turkish company Akfen Holding.
  76. Complete the sentence about Rezina with the correct year: In ______ archeologists discovered an ancient site founded by the Geto-Dacians in the 4. or 3. century BCE, in Rezina's western outskirts.
  77. Complete the sentence about Basarabeasca with the correct year: A Jewish settlement at the site of Basarabeasca was started in ______; it was originally named Romanovka in honor of the Russian imperia…
  78. Complete the sentence about Basarabeasca with the correct year: In ______ there were 86 resident Jewish families who worked the land, 263 men and 249 women.
  79. Complete the sentence about Basarabeasca with the correct year: At the time of the abolition of Jewish land tenure in ______, 57 families were occupied in farming – 209 men and 183 women.
  80. Complete the sentence about Basarabeasca with the correct year: The first secular school, where there was only one class, opened in ______ thanks to Georgiy Gimishli, who helped with the facilities.
  81. Complete the sentence about Basarabeasca with the correct year: For his support of the school, Gimishli was awarded a silver medal of zeal on December 6, ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Leova with the correct year: The Leova market is attested on August 26, ______ in a document from Constantin Moruzzi, the Moldovan prince.
  83. Complete the sentence about Leova with the correct year: After ______, Leova became a customs post and border checkpoint.
  84. Complete the sentence about Taraclia with the correct year: The earliest archaeological sites near the present day city show the existence of a settlement belonging to the Gumelnița culture, discovere…
  85. Complete the sentence about Taraclia with the correct year: In ______ around 30 clans of Nogais from the Astrakhan area arrived in the Budjak area, with several latter waves following.
  86. Complete the sentence about Taraclia with the correct year: The settlement of Taraclia was founded in ______, although they have been settling there much earlier.
  87. Complete the sentence about Vulcănești with the correct year: The symbol of the town, the monument dedicated to the Battle of Cahul was erected in around ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Vulcănești with the correct year: After the Union of Bessarabia with Romania in ______ Vulcănești was integrated into the Cahul county in Romania.
  89. Complete the sentence about Ștefan cel Mare with the correct year: In ______, Stephen with his father, Bogdan II, repulsed the Polish invasion of Moldavia.
  90. Complete the sentence about Ștefan cel Mare with the correct year: Following a period of internal strife, Stephen took the Moldavian throne in ______, after his victory at the Battle of Orbic, with hi…
  91. Complete the sentence about Ștefan cel Mare with the correct year: Stephen attacked Polish territory and prevented Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland, from supporting Peter, but eventually acknowled…
  92. Complete the sentence about Ștefan cel Mare with the correct year: Peter Aaron attacked Moldavia with Hungarian support in December ______, but he was defeated by Stephen and executed, alongside the M…
  93. Complete the sentence about Ștefan cel Mare with the correct year: Stephen eventually defeated a large Ottoman army at the Battle of Vaslui during their invasion in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: In ______, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania.
  95. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: Still, Russian rule was restored over the entire region in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: During the ______ Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic.
  97. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: In February ______, it declared independence and then integrated into Romania later that year following a vote of its assembly.
  98. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: On 27 August ______, as the dissolution of the Soviet Union was underway, the Moldavian SSR declared independence and took the name Moldova.
  99. Complete the sentence about Moldova with the correct year: The constitution of Moldova was adopted in ______, and the country became a parliamentary republic.
  100. Complete the sentence about Balti Steppe with the correct year: Before ______ the term used to mean Jijia Plain plus Middle Prut Valley plus Bălți steppe, because the three regions have an identical r…

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