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  1. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo with the correct year: In ______, Sarajevo was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a local Young Bosnia activist Gavrilo Princip, a murderā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Banja Luka with the correct year: The name Banja Luka was first mentioned in a document dated 6 February ______ by Ladislaus II of Hungary.
  3. Complete the sentence about Banja Luka with the correct year: In one document written by King Vladislav II on 6 February ______, Juraj Mikulasić was mentioned as castellan of Banja Luka.
  4. Complete the sentence about Tuzla with the correct year: Tuzla's history is as old as the 9th century; the modern city dates back to ______ when it became an important garrison town in the Ottoman Empā€¦
  5. Complete the sentence about Tuzla with the correct year: Tuzla was among the first areas in Europe to be liberated, when Tito's Yugoslav Partisans freed it from the German occupiers on 2 October _____ā€¦
  6. Complete the sentence about Tuzla with the correct year: In December ______, the city was unsuccessfully attacked by Chetnik forces of Draža Mihailović along with the Serbian State Guard.
  7. Complete the sentence about Tuzla with the correct year: In the ______ elections the Reformists won control of the municipality, it being the only municipality in Bosnia where non-nationalists won.
  8. Complete the sentence about Mostar with the correct year: Prior to ______, the names of two towns, NebojÅ”a and Cimski grad, appear in medieval historical sources, along with their later medieval terriā€¦
  9. Complete the sentence about Mostar with the correct year: Prior to ______, the NebojÅ”a Tower was built on the left bank of the Neretva, which belonged to the late medieval county still known as Večeniā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Mostar with the correct year: In ______, the region came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and the urbanization of the settlement began.
  11. Complete the sentence about Bijeljina with the correct year: The first documented mention of the name Bijeljina occurred in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Bijeljina with the correct year: Upon the conclusion of the Treaty of Passarowitz in ______, Bijeljina was to be transferred to the Habsburg monarchy.
  13. Complete the sentence about Bijeljina with the correct year: The name Bijeljina was only used after ______ and World War I.
  14. Complete the sentence about Brčko with the correct year: Upon the conclusion of the Treaty of Passarowitz in ______, Brčko was to be transferred to the Habsburg monarchy.
  15. Complete the sentence about Brčko with the correct year: During the ______ exodus of Muslims from Serbia, some Belgrade Muslims who were expelled by the Serbian government settled in the town.
  16. Complete the sentence about Brčko with the correct year: In the Bosnian War, Brčko was the location of the Brčko bridge massacre on 30 April ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Brčko with the correct year: Brčko Arbitration ruled in Feb ______ that Brčko would be managed by an ambassadorial representative from the international community.
  18. Complete the sentence about Cazin with the correct year: Following a drought in ______, the peasants of Yugoslavia were unable to meet unrealistic quotas set by their government and were punished.
  19. Complete the sentence about Trebinje with the correct year: The town commanded the road from Ragusa to Constantinople, which was traversed in ______ by Raymond IV of Toulouse and his crusaders.
  20. Complete the sentence about Bihać with the correct year: The following mention in the charter of ______ confirms that Bihać at that time enjoyed the status of a free city.
  21. Complete the sentence about Bihać with the correct year: In ______ Austria sent troops to defend seven key strongholds in Croatia, one of them was Bihać and another the nearby Ripač.
  22. Complete the sentence about Bihać with the correct year: The Ottomans occupied Bihać in ______ after a 10-day siege and from that time Bihać was the most important forts in Bosnia until the 19th centuā€¦
  23. Complete the sentence about Bihać with the correct year: Ottoman rule was briefly interrupted by Auguste Marmont, general-governor of Illyrian Provinces on 5 May ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Livno with the correct year: The plains of Livno have been populated since approximately ______ BC.
  25. Complete the sentence about Jajce with the correct year: The first references to the name of Jajce in written sources is from the year ______, but the fortress already existed before this.
  26. Complete the sentence about Jajce with the correct year: The Ottomans besieged the town and executed TomaÅ”ević in ______, but held it only for six months.
  27. Complete the sentence about Jajce with the correct year: Before her death in ______ Queen Catherine restored the Saint Mary's Church in Jajce, nowadays the oldest church in the town.
  28. Complete the sentence about Visoko with the correct year: Ottoman rule ended in ______ when the Bosnian Vilayet was occupied by Austria-Hungary.
  29. Complete the sentence about Visoko with the correct year: On 11 November ______, in the last years of Austro-Hungarian rule, it was almost completely burned down by an accidental fire.
  30. Complete the sentence about Konjic with the correct year: Konjic was earliest recorded by name in the records of the Republic of Ragusa on 16 June ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Goražde with the correct year: With Gornje Podrinje, Goražde was part of the old Serbian State up to ______, when it was annexed to the Bosnian State under the reign of Kinā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Goražde with the correct year: The Goražde market became well known in ______ when merchants from Dubrovnik had intensive commercial relations with it.
  33. Complete the sentence about Goražde with the correct year: The Ottomans conquered Goražde in ______ and the place assumed oriental features.
  34. Complete the sentence about Goražde with the correct year: Near Goražde stands the Eastern Orthodox Church of Saint George, built in ______ by Stjepan Vukčić Kosača.
  35. Complete the sentence about ViÅ”egrad with the correct year: Srebrenica, ViÅ”egrad and their surroundings were again in Serbian hands in ______ after the despot Đurađ Branković defeated the Bosnian forcā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about ViŔegrad with the correct year: According to Turkish sources, in ______, ViŔegrad was conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Osman Pasha.
  37. Complete the sentence about Počitelj with the correct year: The exact date cannot be pinpointed but it is likely that fortified town along with its complementary settlements was built by the Bosnian kā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Počitelj with the correct year: After the establishment of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in ______, Počitelj lost its strategic importance and started detā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Stolac with the correct year: In ______ the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated Stolac Old Town as a National Monument of Bosniaā€¦
  40. Complete the sentence about Stolac with the correct year: The saga restarted in ______ when the Catholic Church Parish Office of St.
  41. Complete the sentence about Neum with the correct year: Since ______ and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Neum region has been an international bā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about Neum with the correct year: Instead, it stationed a warship to block access to the port of Neum until the Treaty of Berlin, which gave the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina tā€¦
  43. Complete the sentence about Neum with the correct year: The project never got past the planning stage prior to the outbreak of World War I in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Zvornik with the correct year: Ustasha troops of the fascist Independent State of Croatia occupied Zvornik, along with most of Bosnia, in April ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Zvornik with the correct year: The town was liberated in July ______ by the 1st Proletarian Brigade during the Battle of Zvornik.
  46. Complete the sentence about Zvornik with the correct year: The military attack of paramilitary groups that came from Serbia on Zvornik Bosniaks commenced on 8 April ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Zvornik with the correct year: During April ______, many European news stations daily reported Serb armed attacks and mass killings of the Bosniak population of Zvornik andā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Zvornik with the correct year: On 19 May ______, combined JNA, Serb paramilitary and Arkan's Tigers took control of Zvornik and Mali Zvornik.
  49. Complete the sentence about Gradačac with the correct year: The first spa facility, Ilidža Spa Treatment Centre was built on the thermal springs in Gradačac in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Gradačac with the correct year: In August ______, the traditional international plum fair "Sajam Ŕljive" was held.
  51. Complete the sentence about Velika KladuŔa with the correct year: Velika KladuŔa was first mentioned by name on October 30, ______ by the name Cladosa under the rule of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary.
  52. Complete the sentence about Velika KladuÅ”a with the correct year: Towards the end of the 13th century up to ______, Velika KladuÅ”a was controlled by the Croatian noble families of Babonić, Frankopanā€¦
  53. Complete the sentence about Velika KladuŔa with the correct year: Around ______ at the time of the conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia, the Ottoman Empire was expanding towards this region.
  54. Complete the sentence about Bugojno with the correct year: In ______, Bugojno's GDP per capita was 98% of the Yugoslav average.
  55. Complete the sentence about Čapljina with the correct year: As a revenge, In ______, the Serbian royalist Chetniks attacked several villages in the Čapljina area.
  56. Complete the sentence about Čapljina with the correct year: In May ______, the Municipality of Čapljina became an official city.
  57. Complete the sentence about LjubuÅ”ki with the correct year: In ______ the entire region was conquered by the Bosnian Banus Stjepan II Kotromanić and then incorporated into the Principality of Bosnia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Međugorje with the correct year: To the east of Medjugorje in the Neretva valley, the Serbian Orthodox Žitomislić Monastery has stood since ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Međugorje with the correct year: After being destroyed in ______ by a raiding party sent from Medjugorje, it has been reconstructed.
  60. Complete the sentence about Međugorje with the correct year: In ______ as soon as reports began of the Marian apparitions on Crnica hill in the Bijakovići hamlet, confrontations with Yugoslav state auā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about TeÅ”anj with the correct year: The present name of the city was mentioned for the first time in ______ in a charter from King Stephen TomaÅ”ević to his uncle Radivoj.
  62. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Gazi Ferhad-bey died in ______ and was buried in the yard of the mosque.
  63. Complete the sentence about Sanski Most with the correct year: In ______, Serb-inhabited OŔtra Luka was split from Sanski Most and ceded to the Republika Srpska entity.
  64. Complete the sentence about Mrkonjić Grad with the correct year: Almost all were killed by Bosnian Croat and Muslim forces in late ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Mrkonjić Grad with the correct year: Bosnian Serbs committed a massacre of 28 Croat and Bosniak civilians, who were abducted from their homes in Mrkonjić Grad, and executedā€¦
  66. Complete the sentence about Drvar with the correct year: In ______ Drvar, along with the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was subjugated to Austro-Hungarian rule.
  67. Complete the sentence about Drvar with the correct year: Steinbeis operated in the area until ______ when, after the First World War, the company was taken over by the new Yugoslav state.
  68. Complete the sentence about Drvar with the correct year: In ______ the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, which was then followed by the rise of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
  69. Complete the sentence about Ilidža with the correct year: In ______, an article in a London newspaper called Ilidža "One of the most beautiful places in the world".
  70. Complete the sentence about Stari Most with the correct year: Subsequently, the bridge was reconstructed, and it reopened on 23 July ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Stari Most with the correct year: The stone single-arch bridge is considered an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture and was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about BaŔčarÅ”ija with the correct year: BaŔčarÅ”ija was built in ______ when Isa-Beg Isaković built the Ishaković han, in addition to its many shops.
  73. Complete the sentence about Latin Bridge with the correct year: The census of the Sanjak of Bosnia from ______ mentions the bridge on this spot, built by the leather-worker Hussein, son of Sirmerd.
  74. Complete the sentence about Latin Bridge with the correct year: A terrible flood on 15 November ______ badly damaged the bridge and its reconstruction was financed by the Sarajevo merchant Abdulah-agaā€¦
  75. Complete the sentence about Latin Bridge with the correct year: On 28 June ______, at the turning from the Right Bank into a street, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive tā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about Latin Bridge with the correct year: At the judicial hearing on 12 October ______, Princip described the site of the shooting during his interrogation, specifically mentioniā€¦
  77. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo City Hall with the correct year: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg attended a reception at the town hall on Sunday 28 Jā€¦
  78. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo City Hall with the correct year: In ______ it was handed over to the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  79. Complete the sentence about Trebević with the correct year: During the ______ Winter Olympics Trebević, like the other Sarajevo mountains, was used for several Olympic events, such as bobsledding.
  80. Complete the sentence about Jahorina with the correct year: The Jahorina ski resort located on the mountain hosted the women's alpine skiing events of the ______ Winter Olympics.
  81. Complete the sentence about Jahorina with the correct year: On October 30, ______, a Slovenian paraglider was critically injured on Mount Jahorina when he landed in a minefield by mistake.
  82. Complete the sentence about Igman with the correct year: During the ______ Winter Olympics, Igman was, along with Jahorina and BjelaÅ”nica, the location of the competition in the alpine and Nordic sporā€¦
  83. Complete the sentence about Igman with the correct year: A renowned episode of this struggle took place on Igman during Operation SĆ¼dost Kroatien associated with what is known as the Second Enemy Offeā€¦
  84. Complete the sentence about Sava with the correct year: Before the breakup of Yugoslavia in ______ the Sava was the longest river lying completely within the country.
  85. Complete the sentence about Drina with the correct year: The most disastrous flood occurred in ______, which destroyed the town of Ljubovija.
  86. Complete the sentence about Pliva with the correct year: The company kept its name after moving production to Zagreb in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Pliva with the correct year: In June ______, the company acquired Sidmak for $152.9 million.
  88. Complete the sentence about Pliva with the correct year: In May ______, the company received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell trospium chloride.
  89. Complete the sentence about Pliva with the correct year: In June ______, the company received approval to sell a generic version of erythropoietin in Croatia.
  90. Complete the sentence about Sutjeska National Park with the correct year: Established in ______, it is Bosnia and Herzegovina's oldest national park.
  91. Complete the sentence about Sutjeska National Park with the correct year: The park was established in ______, and is the largest and the earliest declared national park in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  92. Complete the sentence about Sutjeska National Park with the correct year: Perućica forest reserve, located within the national park, was established in ______, as a "Natural reserve for scientific andā€¦
  93. Complete the sentence about Hutovo Blato with the correct year: Since ______, Hutovo Blato has been protected as a Hutovo Blato Nature Park and managed by a public authority.
  94. Complete the sentence about Kozara National Park with the correct year: Kozara National Park was established in ______ in the vicinity of Prijedor.
  95. Complete the sentence about Kozara National Park with the correct year: In ______, a cross was placed at the entrance to the memorial area, dedicated to Kozara's victims from World War II.
  96. Complete the sentence about Kozara National Park with the correct year: Since ______, the park has been governed by a specific law enacted by Republika Srpska.
  97. Complete the sentence about Herzegovina with the correct year: In this case Ottomans used Stjepan Vukčić Kosača's title, herceg, a title he gave himself in ______, and a year later changed it to Herceā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence about Herzegovina with the correct year: In December ______, the lands of Stjepan Vukčić's successors were finally occupied by Ottoman forces.
  99. Complete the sentence about Herzegovina with the correct year: By the early 13th century RaŔka held control of most of Hum, and Sava created a Serbian bishopric at Ston in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Herzegovina with the correct year: After this agreement in ______ the Neretva again became the border between eastern and western Hum.

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