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  1. Complete the sentence about Podgorica with the correct year: Following the Allied victory in World War II, Podgorica was renamed Titograd in ______, and simultaneously designated as capital of Socialiā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Podgorica with the correct year: In ______ the city changed its name to "Podgorica", which it remains today.
  3. Complete the sentence about Podgorica with the correct year: The name Podgorica was first mentioned in ______ in a court document of the Kotor archives.
  4. Complete the sentence about NikÅ”ić with the correct year: The Ottoman Empire took control of OnogoÅ”t in ______, and it stayed under control of the Turks for more than four hundred years, as a part ofā€¦
  5. Complete the sentence about NikÅ”ić with the correct year: OnogoÅ”t was first referred to as "NikÅ”ić" in a document titled Radonia Pribisalich de Nichsich printed in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Pljevlja with the correct year: In ______, after a failed uprising, mass emigration took place around Pljevlja in the direction of Užice, Valjevo and the Drina river basin.
  7. Complete the sentence about Cetinje with the correct year: In the historical documents, Cetinje is mentioned for the first time in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Cetinje with the correct year: Crnojević was forced to move the seat of the Eparchy of Zeta from Vranjina to Cetinje due to the Ottoman invasions, in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Bar, Montenegro with the correct year: From ______ onward, it came under the control of the BalÅ”ić noble family, and Queen Jelena and BalÅ”a III established the capital therā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Herceg Novi with the correct year: The name Herceg Novi, in its modern form, was first mentioned in a Turkish document in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Berane with the correct year: Until ______, when Turks took the city, Budimlja was part of the wider historical region of RaŔka, within the Medieval Serbia.
  12. Complete the sentence about Berane with the correct year: Saint Sava, the first Serbian archbishop, founded one of the first Serbian eparchies here in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Ulcinj with the correct year: In the Middle Ages, the Serbian Kingdom and the House of Balsha ruled Ulcinj until the Republic of Venice captured it in ______ as part of Venā€¦
  14. Complete the sentence about Ulcinj with the correct year: In ______, Ulcinj was conquered by the Ottoman Empire with the aid of North African corsairs after the Battle of Lepanto.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ulcinj with the correct year: Ulcinj remained an Ottoman town for more than 300 years until it was ceded to the Principality of Montenegro in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Tivat with the correct year: Estates, castles and chalets were there as well as the collective church of St Anton dating from ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Tivat with the correct year: In the beginning of ______, in the Tivat Bay sailors revolted against the Austrian empire.
  18. Complete the sentence about Rožaje with the correct year: The settlement surrounding the then fort was called TrgoviŔte, which it was called until ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Rožaje with the correct year: In the villages surrounding Rozaje, 44 Albanian families of the Kelmendi were noted in ______ and 58 residents in Urban Rozaje itself.
  20. Complete the sentence about Danilovgrad with the correct year: Foundations for this planned city were first laid by King Nikola I in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Danilovgrad with the correct year: On May 31, ______, a USAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator crashed in Danilovgrad.
  22. Complete the sentence about Danilovgrad with the correct year: On July 23, ______, at least 48 members of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia were killed in a mass execution by Chetniks in theā€¦
  23. Complete the sentence about KolaŔin with the correct year: Nicholas', which was inhabited by Catholic Albanians who converted to Islam and who were expelled in ______ by local tribes.
  24. Complete the sentence about KolaÅ”in with the correct year: In ______, however, several Montenegrin tribes attacked the town and destroyed all the inhabitants who had kept their Albanian identity or whā€¦
  25. Complete the sentence about Plav, Montenegro with the correct year: According to the 19th-century French consul Hyacinthe Hecquard, the Ottomans constructed a small fortress near Gusinje along the Grnā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Plav, Montenegro with the correct year: In ______ Evliya Ƈelebi who visited Plav during this time, described it as a "lively Albanian town".
  27. Complete the sentence about Plav, Montenegro with the correct year: The Ottomans had to cede Ulcinj to Montenegro after pressure from the Great Powers in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Žabljak with the correct year: In the Ottoman defter of ______, there were 28 Christian houses and 36 Muslim houses.
  29. Complete the sentence about Bay of Kotor with the correct year: The Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Bay of Kotor with the correct year: After the Great Schism of ______, the coastal region was under both Churches.
  31. Complete the sentence about Bay of Kotor with the correct year: In ______, Stefan Nemanja sided with the Republic of Venice in a dispute with the Byzantine Empire.
  32. Complete the sentence about Bay of Kotor with the correct year: In ______, Nemanja and his son Vukan constructed the Church of Saint Luka in Kotor.
  33. Complete the sentence about Bay of Kotor with the correct year: In ______, Saint Sava founded the seat of the Eparchy of Zeta on Prevlaka, one of the eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
  34. Complete the sentence about Perast with the correct year: Mark after ______ by holding a siege by the Turks under the leadership of Mehmed-beg Rizvanagić.
  35. Complete the sentence about Perast with the correct year: Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy traveled from Herceg Novi to Perast in ______ and he wrote that in the town of Perast existed a Croatian community.
  36. Complete the sentence about Lovćen with the correct year: The biggest and most important monument of Lovćen national park is Petar Petrović NjegoÅ”'s Mausoleum constructed in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mausoleum of NjegoÅ” with the correct year: Following his death in October ______, NjegoÅ” was interred at the Cetinje Monastery.
  38. Complete the sentence about Skadar Lake with the correct year: The Montenegrin part of the lake and its surrounding area were declared a national park in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Skadar Lake with the correct year: In ______, by Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, it was included in the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance.
  40. Complete the sentence about Morača with the correct year: The Morača monastery, which was founded in ______ by Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić, is located just north of the river's canyon.
  41. Complete the sentence about Piva with the correct year: The Piva belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin with its own drainage area of ______ km and is not navigable.
  42. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: The first recorded ascent of Bobotov Kuk was in ______ by an Austrian cartographer, Oscar Baumann.
  43. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: The first organized mountaineering group from Zagreb came to Durmitor in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: In ______ two Austrians completed the first winter ascent to Bezimeni vrh.
  45. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: The first scientist was Ami BouĆ© who wrote about the geology of Durmitor in his book ā€˜Geological Excursion in Turkish Europeā€™ in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: In ______ German geographer Kurt Hussert wrote the first book about the physical geography of Durmitor.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bobotov Kuk with the correct year: Extraordinary karst phenomena on Durmitor were first described by Serbian scientist Jovan Cvijić, who later became known for his "Das Karā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Prokletije with the correct year: One of the southernmost glacial masses in Europe was discovered in the Albanian part of the range in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Biogradska Gora with the correct year: When KolaÅ”in was liberated from Ottoman rule in ______, people from the Morača and Rovca presented a part of the forest to King Nichoā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence about Mamula with the correct year: The island has a fort, built in ______ by Austro-Hungarian general Lazar Mamula.
  51. Complete the sentence about Mamula with the correct year: During World War II, from 30 May ______ onwards, the fascist forces of Benito Mussolini's Kingdom of Italy converted the Mamula fort into a coā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Kotor Fortress with the correct year: In the tower, until the liberation of Kotor VaroÅ” in ______, a bell of impressive size existed.
  53. Complete the sentence about Kotor Fortress with the correct year: Kotor later became part of the Jajce Banovina, and the Ottomans conquered it in ______, 52 years after the official fall of Bosnia.
  54. Complete the sentence about Kotor Fortress with the correct year: In ______ Salihaga voluntarily ceded service dizdars his brother Avdaga.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ostrog Monastery with the correct year: The Lower Monastery centers on the Church of the Holy Trinity were built in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Cetinje Monastery with the correct year: A center of historical and cultural importance, it was founded c. ______ by Prince Ivan Crnojević of Zeta, and designated as the caā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Cetinje Monastery with the correct year: In ______, the Venetians were invited to take control of Cetinje.
  58. Complete the sentence about Cetinje Monastery with the correct year: The last time monastery was devastated was in ______, when Mahmud Pasha Bushati sacked Cetinje.
  59. Complete the sentence about Morača Monastery with the correct year: The monastery was burnt down by the Ottomans for the first time in ______, during a turbulent period of insurgency in Montenegro.
  60. Complete the sentence about Morača Monastery with the correct year: Among them it is worth mentioning two notable Last Judgement depictions, a Paradise and the Bosom of Abraham and Satan on the Two-Heā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Biljarda with the correct year: Prince-Bishop Petar II Petrović-NjegoÅ” started the building of the palace on 29 March ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Rijeka Crnojevića with the correct year: During the ______ uprising in Herzegovina, Montenegro faced Ottoman invasion which saw Montenegrin forces crushed.
  63. Complete the sentence about Rijeka Crnojevića with the correct year: Peace treaty was signed in Rijeka Crnojevića on September 8th in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Rijeka Crnojevića with the correct year: Until ______, major road from Titograd and Cetinje went through town due to being placed right in between them two.
  65. Complete the sentence about Crmnica with the correct year: The southern part of the area became part of the same administrative unit with Shestani when the Ottomans took over after ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Crmnica with the correct year: One of the first detailed accounts of the villages of Crmnica was that of Venetian diplomat Mariano Bolizza who traveled in the area in _____ā€¦
  67. Complete the sentence about Rumija with the correct year: The use of the Air Force helicopter was perceived by some people in Montenegro as a provocation in view of the anticipated ______ Montenegrinā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Rumija with the correct year: A decree that stipulated the demolition of the structure was adopted by the Montenegrin Ministry for Spatial Planning in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Bjelasica with the correct year: As a skiing and snowboarding destination, Bjelasica is home to KolaÅ”in ______, a popular ski center with modern chairlifts and infrastructuā€¦
  70. Complete the sentence about Montenegro with the correct year: Montenegro's independence was recognised by the Great Powers at the Congress of Berlin in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Geography of Montenegro with the correct year: The longest cave in Montenegro is Vražji firovi ā€“ 10,5 km long cave north-east from Berane, and the deepest sinkhole is Željeā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Stari Bar with the correct year: About ______, the BalÅ”ić family of Zeta gained control of Bar as the Serbian Empire crumbled.
  73. Complete the sentence about Stari Bar with the correct year: On 5 January ______, the Montenegrins detonated a 225 kg explosive inside the Bar Aqueduct which cut off the town's water supply.
  74. Complete the sentence about Dobrilovina Monastery with the correct year: The consecration of the church took place in ______, when hegumen Janićije and duhovnik Zarija are mentioned.
  75. Complete the sentence about Dobrilovina Monastery with the correct year: The monastery was then ravaged by the Ottomans in ______, however the monks had already retrieved the valuables and abandoned iā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about NjeguŔi with the correct year: A statue passed by the Montenegrin Parliament in ______ granted the royal family the property of King Nikola in the village.
  77. Complete the sentence about NjeguÅ”i with the correct year: According to ______ census, there were 35 inhabitants, 33 of whom were Montenegrins, one did not want to reveal ethnicity and one was a Russiā€¦
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Podgorica? The name Podgorica was first mentioned in 1326 in a court document of the ______ archives.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Herceg Novi? In the second half of the 14th century area in Bay of ______ also became part of the Kingdom of Bosnia.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Tivat? Tivat is the youngest town in the Bay of ______ area and was established on the plateau at the bottom of the Vrmac.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Plav, Montenegro? The Ottomans had to cede ______ to Montenegro after pressure from the Great Powers in 1881.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Petnjica? Petnjica regained its municipality status on May 28, 2013, which it previously had from 1945 to 1957, when it was merged with the ______ Municipalitā€¦
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Gusinje? The town is located in the ______-Gusinje area, part of the upper Lim valley in the Accursed Mountains range at an elevation of 1,014 m.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Gusinje? Vruja creek enters the Vermosh east of town, between this confluence and ______ is locally called Luca.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Bay of Kotor? The Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of ______ was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Bay of Kotor? In 1195, Nemanja and his son Vukan constructed the Church of Saint Luka in ______.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Perast? Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy traveled from ______ to Perast in 1698 and he wrote that in the town of Perast existed a Croatian community.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Mausoleum of NjegoÅ”? The mausoleum is located twenty-one kilometres via asphalt road from near-by ______ and it was built on the idea of Croatian sculptor Ivaā€¦
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Mausoleum of NjegoÅ”? Following his death in October 1851, NjegoÅ” was interred at the ______ Monastery.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Durmitor? The Durmitor is for the most part located in the ______ municipality.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Morača? Just north of ______ it merges with its largest tributary, the Zeta, which it then cuts a rocky canyon before entering the Zeta plain.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Piva Lake? On the bottom of the lake there is the old town ______; Piva Monastery was also there, but it has been relocated.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Piva Lake? The new location of the monastery is 8 km from ______, and 3.5 km away from the original location of the monastery.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Biogradska Gora? When ______ was liberated from Ottoman rule in 1878, people from the Morača and Rovca presented a part of the forest to King Nicholas I Petroā€¦
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Jaz Beach? In largest part they've been financed by Svetozar Marović, influential Montenegrin politician, and a native of ______.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Jaz Beach? The show was attended by approximately 40,000 people, with the city of ______ holding the distinction of being the smallest town ever to host a Rolā€¦
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Cetinje Monastery? Apparently, during the first plunder of ______, after the Battle of Vrtijeljka, the forces of SĆ¼leyman Bushati did not gravely damage the mā€¦
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Cetinje Monastery? In 1689, the Venetians were invited to take control of ______.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Cetinje Monastery? The last time monastery was devastated was in 1785, when Mahmud Pasha Bushati sacked ______.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Rijeka Crnojevića? The Ottomans captured ______ Crnojevića in 1478 after they had defeated the main army of Ivan Crnojević in late 1477 or early 1478.

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