Montenegrin History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Montenegro with the correct year: In ______, Stefan Vojislav led a revolt that resulted in the independence of Duklja and the establishment of the Vojislavljević…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Montenegro with the correct year: On the basis of an independence referendum held on 21 May ______, Montenegro declared independence on 3 June of that year.
  3. Complete the sentence about Vojislav of Duklja with the correct year: Having reached its pinnacle during the long reign of emperor Basil II, the Byzantine Empire entered a steady decline following his…
  4. Complete the sentence about Vojislav of Duklja with the correct year: The battle took place in the mountainous area between Bar and Crmnica after midnight in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Mihailo I of Duklja with the correct year: Mihailo succeeded as Knez of "Duklja" in ______, or as his realm was called by contemporary Cedrenus: "Triballorum ac Serborum pr…
  6. Complete the sentence about Mihailo I of Duklja with the correct year: Matters started to change after ______, the year of Byzantium's key Asian debacle at the Battle of Manzikert, as well as of the N…
  7. Complete the sentence about Mihailo I of Duklja with the correct year: In ______, the Bulgarian noblemen in Skopje planned a revolt against Byzantine rule under the leadership of Georgi Voiteh, the ex…
  8. Complete the sentence about Mihailo I of Duklja with the correct year: In the fall of ______, Michael I gladly sent Constantine Bodin with 300 troops, which arrived at Prizren and met with Voiteh and…
  9. Complete the sentence about Constantine Bodin with the correct year: In the fall of ______, Mihailo obliged and sent Bodin with 300 troops to Prizren, where they met with Georgi Voiteh, the exarch of…
  10. Complete the sentence about Constantine Bodin with the correct year: When, in ______, the Normans crossed from Italy and attacked the Byzantines and besieged Dyrrhachion, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos we…
  11. Complete the sentence about Constantine Bodin with the correct year: By ______, he and his brothers had suppressed a revolt by their cousins, the sons of Mihailo's brother Radoslav in the župa of Zeta…
  12. Complete the sentence about Balšić noble family with the correct year: When the last lord of the main branch of the family, Balša III died in ______ without an heir, his possessions were passed on to…
  13. Complete the sentence about Balšić noble family with the correct year: One contemporary archival source in Vienna Archives mentions Balša II as "ruler of Albanians" during the Battle of Kosovo ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Balšić noble family with the correct year: The oldest mention of any member of the family can be traced to a ______ letter which Helen of Anjou sent to Ragusa through her t…
  15. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: The family started taking Lower Zeta sometime following the death of Dušan in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: In ______, Đurađ declared war against the Thopias, an Albanian noble family which controlled northern Albania.
  17. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: In ______, Đurađ is mentioned as the "baron of maritime Serbia".
  18. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: In January ______, a Ragusan document reported that the three Balšić brothers: Stracimir, Đurađ and Balša II, were preparing for a cam…
  19. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: Hoping to acquire suzerainty over the town, Đurađ had waged war against Kotor in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Đurađ I Balšić with the correct year: In fact, Venice wrote to Uroš V in ______, complaining that Serbia's armed ships were on the Adriatic, citing Bar, Budva nand Ulcinj t…
  21. Complete the sentence about Crnojević noble family with the correct year: Đuraš Ilijić became advisor to the Serbian King Stefan of Dečani in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Crnojević noble family with the correct year: Radič was killed in combat in a war against the House of Balšić in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ivan Crnojević with the correct year: Having formed an alliance with the Republic of Venice, he led the resistance against the expanding Ottoman Empire He was successful at…
  24. Complete the sentence about Ivan Crnojević with the correct year: But thanks to moves of the Stefan Vukčić and Skanderbeg, in ______ he became a duke under payment from the Venetian Republic with the…
  25. Complete the sentence about Ivan Crnojević with the correct year: In ______ Ivan remarried, to Mara, the daughter of Stefan Vukčić.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ivan Crnojević with the correct year: The Venetian Captain of Upper Zeta and Duke was accepted thus in ______ into the ranks of Venetian nobility.
  27. Complete the sentence about Stefan Crnojević with the correct year: Until ______, as a knyaz he was one of many governors in Upper Zeta, which at that time was a province of the Serbian Despotate.
  28. Complete the sentence about Stefan Crnojević with the correct year: In ______ he returned under suzerainty of Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković.
  29. Complete the sentence about Stefan Crnojević with the correct year: At the end of September ______ Kosača captured the territory of upper Zeta on the left bank of Morača.
  30. Complete the sentence about Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro with the correct year: Travers Twiss used the English term "Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro", for the first time, in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro with the correct year: In ______, Zeta was separated from the Sanjak of Scutari and established as the separate Sanjak of Montenegro, under t…
  32. Complete the sentence about Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro with the correct year: In ______, Vavila was elected as ruler of Montenegro by its clans.
  33. Complete the sentence about Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro with the correct year: The Turks were too much occupied with the Hungarian war to take revenge, and it was not till ______ that Montenegro ha…
  34. Complete the sentence about Danilo I, Metropolitan of Montenegro with the correct year: Danilo Šćepčević was only 13 years old when the Great Turkish War began in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Danilo I, Metropolitan of Montenegro with the correct year: After the death of Sava Očinić, the Metropolitan of Cetinje, in ______, there was turmoil surrounding the electi…
  36. Complete the sentence about Petar I Petrović-Njegoš with the correct year: In ______, archimandrite Petar was in Russia with guvernadur Jovan Radonjić and serdar Ivan Petrović.
  37. Complete the sentence about Petar I Petrović-Njegoš with the correct year: The chieftains had suggested Petar the bishop seat already in ______, and he was then sent to the Habsburg Monarchy to be ord…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Kara Mahmud Pasha was defeated at the Battle of Martinići.
  39. Complete the sentence about Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro with the correct year: The decision to declare Montenegro a principality, and Danilo Petrović Njegoš a prince, was made on March 1, ______, a…
  40. Complete the sentence about Nicholas I of Montenegro with the correct year: At age 19, in Cetinje, on 8 November ______, he married Milena, 13 years old, daughter of a Vojvoda named Petar Vukotić and…
  41. Complete the sentence about Nicholas I of Montenegro with the correct year: In ______ Prince Dolgorukov arrived in Montenegro on a special mission from the tsar and distributed large sums of money amo…
  42. Complete the sentence about Nicholas I of Montenegro with the correct year: The Congress of Berlin in ______ recognised the independence of Montenegro, and in the succeeding decades Montenegro enjoyed…
  43. Complete the sentence about Nicholas I of Montenegro with the correct year: On 28 August ______, during the celebration of his jubilee, he assumed the title of king, in accordance with a petition from…
  44. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: The capital was Cetinje and the Montenegrin perper was used as the state currency from ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: The first Montenegrin constitution was proclaimed in ______, known as "Danilo's Code".
  46. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: After the assassination of Danilo I on 13 August ______, Nikola I, the nephew of Danilo, became the next ruler of Monteneg…
  47. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: Modernization of the state followed, culminating with the draft of a Constitution in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: The same flag was used in Cetinje in ______, upon recognition of independence by the Ottoman Empire at San Stefano.
  49. Complete the sentence about Principality of Montenegro with the correct year: According to the ______ constitution, the national flag was a tricolour of red-blue-white, which was the Pan-Slavic Serbia…
  50. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Montenegro with the correct year: Prince Nikola of Montenegro proclaimed the Kingdom of Montenegro in Cetinje on 28 August ______, elevating the country from the…
  51. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Montenegro with the correct year: Montenegro joined the First Balkan War in ______, hoping to win a share in the last Ottoman-controlled areas of Rumelia.
  52. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Montenegro with the correct year: Montenegro did make further territorial gains by splitting Sandžak with Serbia on 30 May ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vučji Do with the correct year: At the same time negotiations between the Serbian and Montenegrin governments result to the two declaring war on the Ottoman Empir…
  54. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Berlin with the correct year: The Paris Peace Treaty of ______, which ended the Crimean War, had made the Black Sea a neutral territory.
  55. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Berlin with the correct year: In ______, Russia invoked the doctrine of rebus sic stantibus and effectively terminated the treaty by breaching provisions concerni…
  56. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Berlin with the correct year: In ______, the Herzegovina uprising resulted in the Great Eastern Crisis.
  57. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Berlin with the correct year: The ______ Treaty of Constantinople was a further continuation of negotiations.
  58. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin–Ottoman War with the correct year: Montenegro and Serbia agreed to declare a war on the Ottomans on 18 June ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin–Ottoman War with the correct year: In ______, Montenegrins fought heavy battles along the borders of Herzegovina and Albania.
  60. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin–Ottoman War with the correct year: The war ended when the Ottomans signed a truce with the Montenegrins at Edirne on 13 January ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin–Ottoman War with the correct year: In October ______, an influential Ottoman statesman, Jusuf-beg Mučin Krnjić, was murdered in Podgorica, which at the time was…
  62. Complete the sentence about First Balkan War with the correct year: Serbia's aspirations to take over Bosnia and Herzegovina were thwarted by the Bosnian crisis, which led to the Austrian annexation o…
  63. Complete the sentence about First Balkan War with the correct year: In ______, Italy had launched an invasion of Tripolitania, now in Libya, which was quickly followed by the occupation of the Dodecan…
  64. Complete the sentence about Siege of Scutari with the correct year: In ______, the Balkan League consisting of Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria had jointly declared war against the Ottoman Empi…
  65. Complete the sentence about Siege of Scutari with the correct year: The siege of Scutari was initiated by the Montenegrins on 28 October ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Siege of Scutari with the correct year: As Montenegro continued their siege in April, the Great Powers decided to implement a blockade of their ports, which was declared on…
  67. Complete the sentence about Siege of Scutari with the correct year: On 21 April ______ approximately six months after the start of the siege, Essad Pasha offered an official proposal to surrender the…
  68. Complete the sentence about Podgorica Assembly with the correct year: In response, Montenegro entered into a military treaty with Serbia on 4 August ______, just two days before declaring war on Austr…
  69. Complete the sentence about Podgorica Assembly with the correct year: The first clash of interests between Montenegro and Serbia occurred in June ______ when Nikola ordered the army to capture Shkodër…
  70. Complete the sentence about Christmas Uprising with the correct year: The uprising reached a climax in Cetinje on 7 January ______, which was the date of Eastern Orthodox Christmas.
  71. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, he established the 6 January Dictatorship, and soon renamed the kingdom Yugoslavia.
  72. 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…
  73. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In April ______, the country was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers.
  74. 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…
  75. Complete the sentence about Socialist Republic of Montenegro with the correct year: The ______ Constitution marked a shift by renaming the republic and modestly redefining its status within the federa…
  76. Complete the sentence about Socialist Republic of Montenegro with the correct year: In ______, Montenegro began its transition toward multiparty democracy, formally ending decades of communist rule.
  77. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Tito participated in the Russian Revolution in ______ and the Russian Civil War.
  78. 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…
  79. 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.
  80. Complete the sentence about Yugoslav Wars with the correct year: After Tito's death in ______, relations between the six republics of the federation deteriorated.
  81. Complete the sentence about Yugoslav Wars with the correct year: Although tensions in Yugoslavia had been mounting since the early 1980s, events in ______ proved to be decisive.
  82. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 with the correct year: An independence referendum was held in Montenegro on 21 May ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 with the correct year: Additionally, the constitution clarified that United Nations Security Council Resolution ______ would apply…
  84. Complete the sentence about Serbia and Montenegro with the correct year: Following the secession of Montenegro in June ______, Serbia proclaimed independence.
  85. Complete the sentence about Serbia and Montenegro with the correct year: The FR Yugoslavia applied for membership in ______ and was admitted to the United Nations as a new member on 1 November under G…
  86. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Montenegro with the correct year: The Constitution of the Republic of Montenegro was approved by Montenegro's Parliament on October 12, ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Montenegro with the correct year: The Constitution of the republic within SFRY was approved in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Montenegro with the correct year: The Constitution of the Principality of Montenegro was introduced in ______ in an effort to secularize the realm and limit…
  89. Complete the sentence about Assembly of Montenegro with the correct year: Following the incorporation of the Kingdom of Montenegro into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in ______, the Parliament of Montenegr…
  90. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Montenegro with the correct year: The first modern Montenegrin government was established on 20 March ______, during the Principality of Montenegro.
  91. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg with the correct year: Skanderbeg's name in Slavic is recorded the first time in the ______ act of sale of St.
  92. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Dalmatia with the correct year: The Republic of Venice had sided with Austria in order to defend her Domini di Terraferma and was occupied by French troops on 14…
  93. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Dalmatia with the correct year: Around ______, the Austrians had the Prevlaka fortress erected to control the maritime traffic in the Bay of Kotor.
  94. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Dalmatia with the correct year: Upon the Revolutions of ______, Dalmatia was temporarily under the control of Ban Josip Jelačić of Croatia.
  95. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Dalmatia with the correct year: In the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ______, a unification with the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was denied.
  96. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Dalmatia with the correct year: The Republic of Venice, between the 9th century and ______, extended its dominion to Istria, the islands of Kvarner and Dalmatia…
  97. Complete the sentence about Principality of Zeta with the correct year: In ______, Grand Župan of Rascia Stefan Nemanja's son, Vukan II, asserted his right to the Dukljan crown.
  98. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: In January ______, Tihomir was recognized by the brothers who were given to rule other certain parts of Serbia and the Serbian-Byzanti…
  99. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: In ______, the Hungarians counterattacked to push Byzantium out of the newly conquered areas.
  100. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: The Hungarians were forced to seek peace through intermediaries to their detriment in ______.

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