History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Which place completes this sentence about Fatos Nano? After graduation in 1978, Nano worked in the management of the metallurgical mills of ______ until 1981.
  2. Which place completes this sentence about Alfred Moisiu? Hoxha sent Moisiu to ______, where he served as the commander of an engineers' company from 1982 to 1984.
  3. Which place completes this sentence about Naim Frashëri? Emine came from the family of Iljaz Bej Mirahori from the region around ______ that traced its ancestry back to the 15th century.
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Congress of Monastir? The Union Association did not stop the demonstration, instead organizing a congress with 120 attendees in ______.
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Albania–Germany relations? On 6 July 1943, the Wehrmacht massacred 107 Albanian civilians in the village of Borovë, near ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Albania with the correct year: A Byzantine counteroffensive soon ensued, which drove the Angevins out of the interior by ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Albania with the correct year: The Angevins held out here, however, until ______, when the city was captured by Karl Thopia.
  8. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Karl Thopia's son surrendered the city to the Republic of Venice.
  9. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Albania with the correct year: During the conflict between the Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Nicaea in ______, lord Golem of Kruja was initially allied w…
  10. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Nicaeans took control of Durrës from Michael II in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Ismail Qemali with the correct year: The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Qemali was elected leader of the Provisional Government of Albania by the All…
  12. Complete the sentence about Ismail Qemali with the correct year: Ismail Qemali was born to an Albanian Muslim family on 16 January ______ in the city of Vlorë, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
  13. Complete the sentence about Ismail Qemali with the correct year: Qemali embarked on a career as an Ottoman civil servant reaching high government positions in European and Asian parts of the empire af…
  14. Complete the sentence about Ismail Qemali with the correct year: Qemali in ______ presented the Sultan with a plan for a Balkan Confederation.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ismail Qemali with the correct year: Qemali was aware that the empire came close to intervention from the Great Powers due to the Armenian crisis of ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Bujar Nishani with the correct year: Nishani was born in Durrës, Albania on 29 September ______ to a couple of teachers with roots from Gjirokastër.
  17. Complete the sentence about Bujar Nishani with the correct year: With the appointment of Safet Zhulali as Minister of Defense in ______, he was hired as the ministry's expert and Director of Foreign R…
  18. Complete the sentence about Bujar Nishani with the correct year: Two years later, in ______, he changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinating the NATO Relations Office.
  19. Complete the sentence about Rexhep Meidani with the correct year: Meidani earned a degree in physics from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Tirana in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Rexhep Meidani with the correct year: Following his election to the Albanian Assembly in the parliamentary elections of June ______, Meidani became a member of parliament.
  21. Complete the sentence about Politics of Albania with the correct year: The political system of Albania is laid out in the ______ constitution.
  22. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Albania with the correct year: The ______ borders arranged by European powers left more than half of the Albanian-speaking territories outside Albania's bor…
  23. Complete the sentence about Albania and the European Union with the correct year: Albania applied for European Union membership on 28 April ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Albania and NATO with the correct year: At the ______ NATO Bucharest summit, NATO member states signed accession protocols for Albania and Croatia.
  25. Complete the sentence about Albania–Greece relations with the correct year: Alongside Italy, Greece has supported Albanian Euro-Atlantic integration efforts, such as Albania's entry into NATO in _____…
  26. Complete the sentence about Socialist Movement for Integration with the correct year: At the ______ parliamentary election the party won five seats in the Albanian Parliament with 8.4% of the vote.
  27. Complete the sentence about Socialist Movement for Integration with the correct year: Ilir Meta founded the party and remained Leader of the Party until 30 April ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Albanian alphabet with the correct year: The earliest known mention of Albanian writings comes from a French Catholic church document from ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Albanian alphabet with the correct year: In ______ Kostandin Kristoforidhi, an Albanian scholar and translator, drafted in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, a Memorandum for the Al…
  30. Complete the sentence about Albanian alphabet with the correct year: In November ______, a Commission for the Alphabet of the Albanian Language was gathered in Istanbul.
  31. Complete the sentence about Albanian alphabet with the correct year: In January ______ the commission ended its work of the standardisation of the alphabet, which was mainly in Latin letters.
  32. Complete the sentence about Albanian alphabet with the correct year: In ______ this alphabet was in widespread use in all Albanian territory, North and South, including Catholic, Muslim and Orthodox a…
  33. Complete the sentence about Cham Albanians with the correct year: Following the Italian occupation of Albania in ______, Chams became a prominent propaganda tool for the Italians and irredentist Alban…
  34. Complete the sentence about Albania–China relations with the correct year: Albania and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations on November 23, ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Albania–China relations with the correct year: The two countries established diplomatic relations on November 23, ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Albania–China relations with the correct year: High level visits began in late ______ with a visit to Albania by a Chinese delegation led by Peng Zhen.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Kruja with the correct year: In ______ he was appointed secretary of the administration, in the Ministry of Public Education in Istanbul.
  38. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Kruja with the correct year: After participating as a volunteer in the Ottoman army during the Italo-Turkish War in ______, he joined the Albanian Independence move…
  39. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Kruja with the correct year: Merlika-Kruja participated in the Assembly of Vlorë of 28 November ______, and his name appears in the list of signatories of the Indep…
  40. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Kruja with the correct year: In ______ he participated in the Congress of Durrës, favored an Italian protectorate over Albania, and was elected Minister of Posts an…
  41. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Kruja with the correct year: As an active participant of the June Revolution in ______, he had to flee the country and moved to Zadar, Vienna, and later settled in…
  42. Complete the sentence about Albania–Montenegro relations with the correct year: Diplomatic relations between the two countries were officially established on 1 August, ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Albania–Montenegro relations with the correct year: In ______, Igor Lukšić and Edmond Panariti, foreign ministers of Montenegro and Albania, respectively, met in Tirana to…
  44. Complete the sentence about Open Balkan with the correct year: The first signs of the Open Balkan emerged in ______ as a way to improve political relations.
  45. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The museum was built at the end of the 1970s and was inaugurated on 1 November ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The works for the construction of the museum began in September ______ and they were directed by Robert Kote.
  47. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: In March ______, the Ministry of Education and Culture set up two working groups for the preparation of the museum content model, p…
  48. Complete the sentence about Skanderbeg Museum with the correct year: The group of historians led by professor Kristo Frasheri and the group of painters led by Bashkim Ahmeti completed this design in t…
  49. Complete the sentence about Battle of Albulena with the correct year: The Ottomans arrived in late May ______ and marched through the Mat River Valley.
  50. Complete the sentence about Battle of Albulena with the correct year: In April ______, Skanderbeg sent Pal Engjëlli, his ambassador to the West, with a letter to Cardinal Domenico Capranica informing…
  51. Complete the sentence about Battle of Albulena with the correct year: In July ______ Mehmed marched a large army to besiege Hungarian-held Belgrade in Serbia, but was defeated by Hunyadi.
  52. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By the end of May ______, a large Ottoman army was seen approaching Albania.
  53. Complete the sentence about Battle of Torvioll with the correct year: The battle encouraged Pope Eugenius IV and John Hunyadi to organise a new crusade against the Ottomans in the autumn of ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Battle of Torvioll with the correct year: By forging a letter from Murad II to the Governor of Krujë, he became lord of the city in November ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Battle of Torvioll with the correct year: The League's first military challenge came in the spring of ______, when Skanderbeg's scouts reported that the Ottoman army was pl…
  56. Complete the sentence about Battle of Otonetë with the correct year: Soon after Skanderbeg united the Albanian princes in ______, the Ottoman Empire sent forces to quell the rebellion.
  57. Complete the sentence about Gjon Kastrioti with the correct year: In ______, Kastrioti, Koia Zaharia, Dhimitër Jonima, and other Albanian vassals of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I personally led their retin…
  58. Complete the sentence about Gjon Kastrioti with the correct year: Kastrioti accepted the suzerainty and was made a citizen of Venice in ______, along with his heirs.
  59. Complete the sentence about Gjon Kastrioti with the correct year: The Venetians tried to bribe the Kastrioti and Dukagjini to fight against Zeta in ______, but it seems without success.
  60. Complete the sentence about Gjon Kastrioti with the correct year: Lazarević had taken Zeta from Balša III in ______, but the Venetians did not recognize him, holding on to the occupied Zetan coast and…
  61. Complete the sentence about Lekë Dukagjini with the correct year: Until ______, Lekë seemed to have been a pronoier of Koja Zaharia.
  62. Complete the sentence about Lekë Dukagjini with the correct year: Subsequently, two years later, in ______, in an act of revenge, Dukagjini and his men ambushed and murdered Zaharia.
  63. Complete the sentence about Lekë Dukagjini with the correct year: Original Venetian documents contradict this account by showing that Zaharia's widow actually handed over the fortress in September ___…
  64. Complete the sentence about Lekë Dukagjini with the correct year: On 29 October ______, Dukagjini managed to capture Dagnum by bribing a Venetian officer and maintaining contacts with conspirators ins…
  65. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Arianiti with the correct year: Gjergj Arianiti was Skanderbeg's ally within the League of Lezhë before abandoning the alliance after the capture of Berat by the Ott…
  66. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Arianiti with the correct year: After ______ he fell under Ottoman political influence and probably resided at the sultan's palace as hostage to secure loyalty of hi…
  67. Complete the sentence about Gjergj Arianiti with the correct year: In the spring of ______, after the first phase of the reforms ended, an Albanian revolt erupted which spread to much of Albania.
  68. Complete the sentence about Albanian Vilayet with the correct year: The creation of the Vilayet was confirmed in September ______, but negotiations were interrupted a month later in October by the beg…
  69. Complete the sentence about Albanian Vilayet with the correct year: A separate Albanian vilayet was a part of the agenda of many Albanian organizations and societies since ______, during the period kn…
  70. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1910 with the correct year: The Albanian revolt of ______ was a reaction to the new centralization policies of the Young Turk Ottoman government in Alban…
  71. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1910 with the correct year: The Ottomans retook İpek on 1 June ______ and two months later they entered Shkodër.
  72. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1912 with the correct year: The revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to fulfill the rebels' demands on 4 September ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1912 with the correct year: The first major Albanian revolt in ______ led by Isa Boletini and Idriz Seferi was supported by Bulgaria and Montenegro.
  74. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1912 with the correct year: Sultan Mehmed V visited Pristina in June ______ and declared an amnesty for all of those who had participated in the revolt…
  75. Complete the sentence about Albanian Revolt of 1912 with the correct year: At the end of ______ a group of Albanian Members, led by Ismail Qemali, started a debate in the Ottoman parliament.
  76. Complete the sentence about Senate of Albania with the correct year: The senate was established on the 4 December ______ by the Assembly of Vlorë.
  77. 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 ______.
  78. 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…
  79. 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.
  80. Complete the sentence about Albanian Republic with the correct year: On January 31, ______, Zogu was elected president for a term of seven years by the National Assembly, prior to his proclamation as…
  81. Complete the sentence about Albanian Republic with the correct year: In ______, the National Bank of Albania was created and was awarded concessions to Italian investors.
  82. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: Prior to direct intervention in World War I, the Kingdom of Italy occupied the port of Vlorë in Albania in December ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: Upon entering the war, Italy spread its occupation to region of southern Albania beginning in the autumn ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: Italian forces in ______ recruited Albanian irregulars to serve alongside them.
  85. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: Italy with permission of the Allied command, occupied Northern Epirus on 23 August ______, forcing the Greek Army to withdraw its oc…
  86. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: In June ______, Italy proclaimed central and southern Albania as a protectorate of Italy while Northern Albania was allocated to the…
  87. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: By 31 October ______, French and Italian forces expelled the Austro-Hungarian Army from Albania.
  88. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: The first offensive, operation "505", started in early November ______ to clear Partisan units from the Pezë region.
  89. Complete the sentence about Albanian Kingdom with the correct year: Large number of Serbs were killed across Kosovo or deported to camps in Albania starting from ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Balli Kombëtar with the correct year: The Balli Kombëtar was officially founded in November ______ by Midhat Frashëri, joining the efforts of a series of nationalists to re…
  91. Complete the sentence about Balli Kombëtar with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, Nazi Germany occupied all of Albania after Italy was defeated.
  92. Complete the sentence about Balli Kombëtar with the correct year: By January ______, in Southern Albania, some Partisan units fought alongside the Balli Kombëtar during the Battle of Gjorm where they…
  93. Complete the sentence about Balli Kombëtar with the correct year: The LANÇ met with the Ballists in August ______, agreeing upon the establishment of Greater Albania.
  94. Complete the sentence about Legaliteti with the correct year: Following November ______, Abaz Kupi, until the Mukje Conference, was a member of the Central Council of the NLM, withdrew with others to…
  95. Complete the sentence about Legaliteti with the correct year: After the outbreak of the Albanian Civil War, the communists reached Tirana in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Legaliteti with the correct year: In ______, the Albanian communists assumed control over Albania at the end of World War II in Europe.
  97. Complete the sentence about Albanian Democratic Front with the correct year: In Albania's first post war election held in December ______ the Front submitted its own list of candidates, winning over 9…
  98. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Shehu with the correct year: In ______, he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
  99. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Shehu with the correct year: According to official Albanian government sources, he killed himself on December 17, ______, after which his family was arrested.
  100. Complete the sentence about Koçi Xoxe with the correct year: In his youth Xoxe was educated by his grandfather in the village school, later he attended the gymnasium of Thessaloniki and achieved high…

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