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  1. Complete the sentence about Principality of Arbanon with the correct year: The principality was established in ______ by the Albanian archon Progon in the region surrounding Kruja, to the east and nor…
  2. Complete the sentence about Principality of Arbanon with the correct year: In ______ most of the territory of Arbanon, together with Durrës, became part of the Kingdom of Albania.
  3. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg with the correct year: During the Battle of Nish in ______, he deserted the Ottomans and became the ruler of Krujë and nearby areas extending from Petrelë to Mod…
  4. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg with the correct year: In March ______, he established the League of Lezhë, with support from local noblemen, and unified the Albanian principalities.
  5. 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.
  6. Complete the sentence about League of Lezhë with the correct year: The peace treaty of the Albanian-Venetian war signed on October 4, ______, is the first diplomatic document on which the league appea…
  7. Complete the sentence about League of Lezhë with the correct year: The first battle against the Ottoman forces in Albania was the battle of Savra, on September 18, ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about League of Lezhë with the correct year: In November ______, Skanderbeg captured Kruja with his troops and declared its independence from the Sultan.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Albania with the correct year: The Ottomans first entered Albania in ______ upon the invitation of the Albanian noble Karl Thopia to suppress the forces of the nobl…
  10. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Albania with the correct year: The Ottomans placed garrisons throughout southern Albania by 1420s and established formal jurisdiction in central Albania by ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Albanian Renaissance with the correct year: On 20 December ______, the Conference of Ambassadors in London recognized an independent Albania within its present-day borders.
  12. Complete the sentence about Albanian Renaissance with the correct year: In ______, the Sublime Porte sent an expeditionary force under the command of Reşid Mehmed Pasha to suppress the local Albanian…
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By the end of March ______, the new uprising erupted but was suppressed.
  14. Complete the sentence about League of Prizren with the correct year: The first postwar treaty, the abortive Treaty of San Stefano signed on March 3, ______, assigned areas claimed by the League of Pri…
  15. Complete the sentence about League of Prizren with the correct year: On December 13, ______, the Serbs declared war on Ottoman Empire, as did Montenegro.
  16. Complete the sentence about League of Prizren with the correct year: The Albanians, on December 12, ______, established in Istanbul the Central Committee for the Defense of Rights of the Albanian Nati…
  17. Complete the sentence about League of Prizren with the correct year: During the meeting in Prizren a kararname was signed by 47 beys on June 18, ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Ali Pasha of Ioannina with the correct year: The initial Greek uprising in the Morea on the eve of the Greek Revolution in ______ began as an extension of Ali Pasha's revol…
  19. Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: Further border changes were ratified in the Treaty of Bucharest in August ______, following the conclusion of the Second Balkan War.
  20. Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: Hostilities had officially ceased on 2 December ______, except for Greece that had not participated in the first truce.
  21. Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: In part, this was consistent with Austria-Hungary's previous policy of resisting Serb expansion to the Adriatic; Italy had designs o…
  22. Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: As a result of Bulgarian dissatisfaction with the de facto military division of Macedonia, the Second Balkan War broke out between t…
  23. Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: A final peace was agreed at the Treaty of Bucharest on 12 August ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Principality of Albania with the correct year: After the fall of Constantinople, the land area covered by modern Albania had been under Ottoman rule from around ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Principality of Albania with the correct year: A formal offer was made by 18 Albanian delegates representing the 18 districts of Albania on February 21, ______, an offer wh…
  26. Complete the sentence about Principality of Albania with the correct year: Prince Wilhelm arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of Durrës on March 7, ______, along with the royal family.
  27. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm, Prince of Albania with the correct year: Prince William served as a Prussian cavalry officer before becoming a captain in the German General Staff in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm, Prince of Albania with the correct year: The announcement was made in November ______ and the decision was accepted by Ismail Kemal, the head of the provisional go…
  29. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm, Prince of Albania with the correct year: The offer of the Albanian throne was first made to him in the spring of ______ but he turned it down.
  30. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm, Prince of Albania with the correct year: On 7 February ______, William let the Great Powers know that he would accept the throne.
  31. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm, Prince of Albania with the correct year: The plot was exposed, Essad Pasha was arrested on 19 May ______, tried for treason and sentenced to death.
  32. Complete the sentence about Congress of Lushnjë with the correct year: Political ideas were concluded with the organization of the Congress of Durrës on 25 December ______ and the creation of the Prov…
  33. Complete the sentence about Congress of Lushnjë with the correct year: The Albanian delegation reacted to the agreement on 14 August ______ at the Paris Peace Conference.
  34. Complete the sentence about Congress of Lushnjë with the correct year: At that conference, the agreement was merged with the secret Treaty of London of April ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Zogu with the correct year: In ______, he proclaimed Albania a monarchy and acceded to the throne as Zog I.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Zogu with the correct year: In April ______, Italy invaded Albania and the country was rapidly overrun.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Zogu with the correct year: After Albania was liberated in ______, he was barred from ever returning to the country by the new, Communist-dominated government of Enve…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Zog spent the rest of his life in France and died in April ______ at the age of 65.
  39. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: In ______, President Zogu secured the parliament's consent to its own dissolution, as he had already gained authoritarian control of…
  40. Complete the sentence about Italian invasion of Albania with the correct year: The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by Italy against Albania in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Italian invasion of Albania with the correct year: Italy began to penetrate Albania's economy in ______, when Albania agreed to allow Italy to exploit its mineral resources…
  42. Complete the sentence about Italian invasion of Albania with the correct year: Rome, however, delivered Tirana an ultimatum on 25 March ______, demanding that it consent to Italy's occupation of Alban…
  43. Complete the sentence about Albania in World War II with the correct year: In Albania, World War II began with its invasion by Italy in April ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Albania in World War II with the correct year: Italy, however, issued an ultimatum to the Albanian government on March 25, ______, demanding that it accede to Italy's occup…
  45. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Movement with the correct year: In spring ______, Shanto and Stafa met with fellow Communist Fadil Hoxha due to his earlier contact with Yugoslav commun…
  46. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Movement with the correct year: Miladin Popović and Dušan Mugoša were the Yugoslav delegates that helped unite the Albanian communist groups in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Movement with the correct year: Meanwhile, the communist activity in Albania increased and culminated with the creation on 8 November ______ of the Alba…
  48. Complete the sentence about Enver Hoxha with the correct year: In ______, he spearheaded the Cultural and Ideological Revolution, a campaign that, among other things, wished to eliminate the influence…
  49. Complete the sentence about People's Socialist Republic of Albania with the correct year: Being Europe's only Muslim-majority country at the time, it declared itself the world's first atheist state in…
  50. Complete the sentence about People's Socialist Republic of Albania with the correct year: The first multi-party elections in Socialist Albania took place on 31 March ______ – the Communists gained a m…
  51. Complete the sentence about Albanian Party of Labour with the correct year: The party dissolved on 13 June ______ and refounded itself as the Socialist Party of Albania.
  52. Complete the sentence about Albanian Party of Labour with the correct year: In August ______, the first Albanian Communist Party was formed in the Soviet Union.
  53. Complete the sentence about Albanian Party of Labour with the correct year: The most prominent figure of the party was Ali Kelmendi, who left Albania in ______ to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ramiz Alia with the correct year: Alia was born on 18 October ______, in Shkodër to Gheg Albanian parents who were Muslim.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ramiz Alia with the correct year: In ______, he became a member of the Albanian Communist Party.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ramiz Alia with the correct year: On 12 December ______, he signed a law allowing political pluralism, on which he would later comment as his life's greatest failure.
  57. Complete the sentence about Sigurimi with the correct year: In ______ the Albanian parliament discussed opening the so-called "Sigurimi files", but the Socialist Party of Albania contested it.
  58. Complete the sentence about Sigurimi with the correct year: In early ______, information on the organization, responsibilities, and functions of the SHIK was not available in Western publications.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sali Berisha with the correct year: In ______ he was elected to be a member of the European Committee for Research on Medical Sciences.
  60. Complete the sentence about Edi Rama with the correct year: Essays from those meetings were collected in the book Refleksione, which Rama published together with publicist Ardian Klosi in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Edi Rama with the correct year: In ______, Rama moved to France, and tried to begin a career as a painter.
  62. Complete the sentence about Edi Rama with the correct year: During one of his trips back to Albania in January ______, Rama suffered a physical assault.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ilir Meta with the correct year: Since ______ he has been elected Member of Parliament in all legislatures, and has been an active member of several Parliamentary Commissio…
  64. Complete the sentence about Ilir Meta with the correct year: At age 30 he was the second-youngest prime minister in Albanian history after Zog I, who was 27 at the time of his election in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Ilir Meta with the correct year: Following the ______ parliamentary election, he initially remained Prime Minister.
  66. Complete the sentence about Ilir Meta with the correct year: The President of Albania, Rexhep Meidani, approved the Government of Albania on 7 September ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Bamir Topi with the correct year: Bamir Myrteza Topi was born in Tirana, Albania on the 24th of April ______, to Riza Topi and Haxhire Karapici.
  68. Complete the sentence about Bamir Topi with the correct year: During the ______-90 period, he attended post-graduate studies in Italy in the field of Molecular Biology.
  69. Complete the sentence about Bamir Topi with the correct year: After returning from Italy, Topi served as Director of the Food Safety and Veterinary Institute until the end of ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Alfred Moisiu with the correct year: In ______, Safet Zhulali appointed him the deputy minister charged with elaborating the defence politics of Albania.
  71. Complete the sentence about Alfred Moisiu with the correct year: In ______ he founded the Albanian North Atlantic Association and was elected as its president.
  72. Complete the sentence about Alfred Moisiu with the correct year: On January 24, ______, he signed an individual association treaty binding Albania with NATO's Partnership for Peace project.
  73. Complete the sentence about Alfred Moisiu with the correct year: From ______, Moisiu attended to the VIPs' courses of the NATO College in Rome.
  74. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: The Parliament adopted the current constitution on 28 November ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: In ______ Albania was invaded by Fascist Italian forces, imposing a puppet state, and later occupied by Nazi German forces.
  76. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: In March ______ democracy was restored with multi-party elections.
  77. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: The oldest parliament with extant records was held on 2 March ______, forged in Lezhë under Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu as the le…
  78. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: Since ______, the introduction of pluralism, the party system is dominated by the Democratic and the post-communist Socialist.
  79. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Albania with the correct year: The oldest Assembly with extant records was held in Lezhë on 2 March ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Albania with the correct year: The League of Lezhë was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March…
  81. Complete the sentence about President of Albania with the correct year: On 6 February ______, Prince Wilhelm Wied was appointed as head of state by the Ambassadors Conference.
  82. Complete the sentence about President of Albania with the correct year: In ______, Fan Noli was elected as head of government while exercising at the same time the functions of the head of state.
  83. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Albania with the correct year: The office of the prime minister is a core institution in the politics of Albania formed after the Albanian declaration of…
  84. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Albania with the correct year: In ______, Ismail Qemali was inaugurated as the first prime minister of Albania, guiding the nation toward sovereignty amid…
  85. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Albania with the correct year: In ______, Enver Hoxha implemented a radical change in government, transforming Albania into an authoritarian and isolation…
  86. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Albania with the correct year: In ______, the nation transitioned into a democracy that marked a notable shift, when Fatos Nano emerged as the first post…
  87. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Albania with the correct year: Since September ______, Edi Rama from the Albanian Socialist Party has served as prime minister.
  88. Complete the sentence about Albanian lek with the correct year: The lek was introduced as the first Albanian currency in February ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Bank of Albania with the correct year: In ______, Albanian municipalities were allowed to issue their own banknotes.
  90. Complete the sentence about Albania and NATO with the correct year: In ______, it entered NATO's Partnership for Peace, which began Albania's process of accession into the alliance.
  91. Complete the sentence about Albania and NATO with the correct year: Albania signed the Partnership for Peace agreement 23 February ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Albania–Kosovo relations with the correct year: In ______, when the Bosnian conflict escalated, Albania took a step back by recognising Yugoslavia's borders, which included…
  93. Complete the sentence about Albania–Greece relations with the correct year: Relations did not improve until the ______ occupation of Albania by Italy.
  94. Complete the sentence about Albania–Italy relations with the correct year: Formal relations between the two countries commenced in ______, as the Kingdom of Italy supported the Albanian Declaration of…
  95. Complete the sentence about Albania–Italy relations with the correct year: On April 7, ______, Mussolini's troops invaded Albania, declaring it again as an Italian protectorate.
  96. Complete the sentence about Albania–Italy relations with the correct year: After the capitulation of Italy in ______, relations between Italy and Albania were interrupted.
  97. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: Albania and the United States formally established diplomatic relations in ______, a decade after the Albanian Declar…
  98. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: During the fall of communism in Albania and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the two nations re-established relat…
  99. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: The Albanian-American Pan-Albanian Federation of America-Vatra was started in ______ by Fan S.
  100. Complete the sentence about Albania–United States relations with the correct year: The Congress of Lushnja, held in January ______, was a bicameral parliament that appointed members of its own ranks t…

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