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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: In ______, Tvrtko I was crowned King of Bosnia, establishing the Kingdom of Bosnia.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: In ______, Bosnia was annexed into the Ottoman Empire, marking the beginning of more than 400 years of Ottoman rule…
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The conflict eventually forced the Ottomans to cede administration of the country to the Habsburg monarchy through…
  4. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Bosnia with the correct year: Stephen Tomašević, the last king of Bosnia, was captured by the Ottomans and killed in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Bosnia with the correct year: Tvrtko thus proclaimed himself the first King of Bosnia, claiming full legitimacy as the crown he took was sent from Pope Honorius…
  6. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Bosnia with the correct year: Venice and Ragusa consistently referred to Tvrtko as King of Rascia, Ragusa even complaining, in ______, about Tvrtko's preoccupati…
  7. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Bosnia with the correct year: The Stanak is the most common name used to refer to the assembly of nobility in medieval Bosnia, and it is first attested in the ch…
  8. Complete the sentence about Ban Kulin with the correct year: In ______, when Komnenos died, Stefan Nemanja and Kulin asserted independence of Serbia and Bosnia, respectively.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ban Kulin with the correct year: In ______, Serbian prince Vukan Nemanjić informed the Pope, Innocent, of heresy in Bosnia.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ban Kulin with the correct year: The Charter of Ban Kulin was a trade agreement between Bosnia and the Republic of Ragusa that effectively regulated Ragusan trade rights in…
  11. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: Celebrated in April ______, it made Stephen the ruler of the remnants of the neighbouring country.
  12. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: Stephen succeeded his father on the throne following the latter's death on 10 July ______ and became the first Bosnian ki…
  13. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: In May ______, Mehmed marched into Bosnia, meeting little effective resistance, and captured Stephen, who was then behead…
  14. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: Born in ______, Stephen hailed from the House of Kotromanić as one of the two known sons of the Bosnian prince Thomas by…
  15. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: The King died shortly after, in November ______, and Stephen's father ascended the throne.
  16. Complete the sentence about Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia with the correct year: The earliest source mentioning Stephen by name dates from 30 April ______, when Pope Callixtus III put the King of Bosnia…
  17. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Church with the correct year: In ______, Kulin was accused to have given refuge to heretics from the Dalmatian cities fleeing persecution.
  18. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Church with the correct year: In a ______ letter of Pope Honorius III, archbishop Ugrin Csák is encouraged to continue "eradicating heretics in Bosnia, Soli and Uso…
  19. Complete the sentence about Bosnian Church with the correct year: Coloman was successful, and received the administration of Bosnia by August ______, thereby becoming a feudal sovereign under his fath…
  20. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Bosnia with the correct year: The Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina started in ______, and subsequently the Ottoman invasion expanded into the so-called Bo…
  21. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Bosnia with the correct year: Bosnia continued legally under the royal House of Berislavić, and fell finally in ______ with the fall of its capital Jajce.
  22. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Turks had conquered Slavonia and most of Hungary by ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Bosnia with the correct year: Despite winning several notable victories, the rebels were eventually defeated in a battle near Sarajevo in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Bosnia with the correct year: The rebellion was extinguished by ______, but the Empire continued to decline.
  25. Complete the sentence about Bosnia Eyalet with the correct year: After the execution of King Stephen Tomašević in ______, the central part of the Kingdom of Bosnia was transformed into the sanjak of B…
  26. Complete the sentence about Bosnia Eyalet with the correct year: The Ottoman wars in Europe continued throughout the period, and the province reached its territorial peak in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Gazi Husrev-beg with the correct year: Gazi Husrev-beg's forces struggled against a power vacuum in Montenegro after the death of Ottoman ally, islamized Montenegrin lord S…
  28. Complete the sentence about Gazi Husrev-beg with the correct year: In ______, during an uprising of Montenegro nobility, he set out to protect the Crnojevićs and the local populace.
  29. Complete the sentence about Mehmed Pasha Sokolović with the correct year: As proclaimed in Baghdad on 13 March ______, Mehmed was sent to be one of the seven retainers of the Imperial Treasurer Iskend…
  30. Complete the sentence about Mehmed Pasha Sokolović with the correct year: Mehmed in ______ first became an Imperial Chamberlain and then the head of the Sultan's squires.
  31. Complete the sentence about Mehmed Pasha Sokolović with the correct year: In ______ the Kapudan Pasha Hayreddin Barbarossa died and Mehmed was appointed his successor.
  32. Complete the sentence about Bosnian uprising with the correct year: As a result, Ali Pasha Rizvanbegović was named Pasha of the Herzegovina Eyalet which was seceded in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Bosnian uprising with the correct year: The new pasha's representatives were mostly old ayans, but in ______ Omer Pasha eliminated the old Ayan families.
  34. Complete the sentence about Bosnian uprising with the correct year: Bosnian vizier Mustafa Pasha Belenlija was dismissed because he failed to introduce order in the province, and was replaced by Abdur…
  35. Complete the sentence about Bosnian uprising with the correct year: Abdurahman Pasha received an order in mid-December ______ to finally end the revolt of the Janissaries, who enjoyed wide support amo…
  36. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: Continuing nationalism in the Balkans was a major factor for the First World War in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Congress of Berlin with the correct year: The Congress was solicited by Russia's rivals, particularly Austria-Hungary and Britain, and was hosted in ______ by Bismarck.
  38. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: In ______, Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian crisis by formally annexing the occupied zone, establ…
  39. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: After the fall of the Medieval Kingdom of Bosnia in ______, Bosnia and Herzegovina became part of the…
  40. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Following wars of independence by the Kingdom of Hungary against Habsburg rule, Austria-Hungary was f…
  41. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina started on 29 July ______ and was over on 20 October.
  42. Complete the sentence about Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Despite setbacks at Maglaj and Tuzla, Sarajevo was occupied in October ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Gavrilo Princip with the correct year: In ______, he joined Young Bosnia, a secret local society aiming to free Bosnia from Austrian rule and achieve the unification of the…
  44. Complete the sentence about Gavrilo Princip with the correct year: Princip died on 28 April ______ of tuberculosis, worsened by harsh prison conditions, that had already led to the amputation of his r…
  45. Complete the sentence about Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand with the correct year: The assassins and key members of the clandestine network were tried in Sarajevo in October ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand with the correct year: Black Hand members were arrested and tried before a Serbian court in Salonika in ______ on charges of high…
  47. Complete the sentence about Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: Franz Ferdinand held significant influence over the military, and in ______, he was appointed inspector general of the Aus…
  48. Complete the sentence about Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: On 28 June ______, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by the 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member…
  49. Complete the sentence about Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: In ______, when he was eleven years old, his cousin Francis V, Duke of Modena, died, naming Franz Ferdinand his heir on co…
  50. Complete the sentence about Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: In ______, Ferdinand's cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide at his hunting lodge in Mayerling.
  51. Complete the sentence about Franz Ferdinand of Austria with the correct year: When Karl Ludwig died of typhoid fever in ______, Franz Ferdinand became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian thro…
  52. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, he established the 6 January Dictatorship, and soon renamed the kingdom Yugoslavia.
  53. 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…
  54. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In April ______, the country was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers.
  55. 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…
  56. Complete the sentence about Independent State of Croatia with the correct year: On 20 June ______, Stjepan Radić and four other Croat deputies were shot while in the Belgrade parliament by a member of…
  57. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Neretva with the correct year: The offensive took place in early ______, between 20 January and mid-to-late March.
  58. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Neretva with the correct year: In late ______, with the Axis situation in North Africa deteriorating, the German high command became concerned about the possi…
  59. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Neretva with the correct year: As a result, on 16 December ______ Adolf Hitler ordered the Armed Forces Commander in Southeast Europe, Generaloberst Alexander…
  60. Complete the sentence about Battle of Sutjeska with the correct year: Taking place from 15 May to 16 June ______, it aimed to destroy the main Yugoslav Partisan force, near the Sutjeska River in south…
  61. Complete the sentence about AVNOJ with the correct year: By ______, the Western Allies and the Yugoslav government-in-exile recognised the AVNOJ as the all-Yugoslav legislative body.
  62. Complete the sentence about AVNOJ with the correct year: The third session of the AVNOJ was convened in preparation of the Constituent Assembly when the Yugoslav Parliament was convened again in _____…
  63. Complete the sentence about AVNOJ with the correct year: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia acceded to the Tripartite Pact on 25 March ______ under pressure from Nazi Germany.
  64. Complete the sentence about AVNOJ with the correct year: On 6 April ______, the Axis powers invaded and quickly occupied Yugoslavia.
  65. Complete the sentence about AVNOJ with the correct year: By the end of ______, the armed resistance spread to all areas of the country except Macedonia.
  66. Complete the sentence about Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: After independence on 1 March ______, the country was renamed to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  67. Complete the sentence about Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Following the Dayton Agreement that was in force, it became simply a federated state known as Bosnia and…
  68. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Tito participated in the Russian Revolution in ______ and the Russian Civil War.
  69. 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…
  70. 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.
  71. Complete the sentence about Alija Izetbegović with the correct year: Izetbegović was born on 8 August ______ in the town of Bosanski Šamac.
  72. Complete the sentence about Alija Izetbegović with the correct year: Izetbegović was detained by the Serb royalist Chetniks in mid-______, but released by Chetnik voivode Dragutin Keserović.
  73. Complete the sentence about Radovan Karadžić with the correct year: In ______, he was found guilty of the genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, 10 of the 11 charges in total…
  74. Complete the sentence about Radovan Karadžić with the correct year: Radovan Karadžić was born to a Serb family on 19 June ______ in the village of Petnjica in Montenegro, Yugoslavia, near Šavnik.
  75. Complete the sentence about Radovan Karadžić with the correct year: Karadžić moved to Sarajevo in ______ to study psychiatry at the Sarajevo University School of Medicine.
  76. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: In ______, Mladić was arrested in Lazarevo, Serbia, and extradited to The Hague.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: Mladić was born in Božanovići near Kalinovik, at the time part of the Independent State of Croatia, on 12 March ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: Upon graduating on 27 September ______, Mladić began his career in the Yugoslav People's Army.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: In the same year he joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, remaining a member until the party disintegrated in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: On 31 January ______, Mladić was promoted to be head of the Education Department of the Third Military District of Skopje.
  81. Complete the sentence about Ratko Mladić with the correct year: On 14 January ______, he was promoted again, to Deputy Commander in Priština.
  82. Complete the sentence about Slobodan Milošević with the correct year: Following the ______ general elections, Milošević enacted dominant-party rule while his party retained control over economic resou…
  83. Complete the sentence about Slobodan Milošević with the correct year: A second and third indictment followed in ______ in relation to the Croatian War of Independence and Bosnian War respectively, wit…
  84. Complete the sentence about Bosnian War with the correct year: Events such as the siege of Sarajevo and the July ______ Srebrenica genocide later became iconic of the conflict.
  85. Complete the sentence about Srebrenica massacre with the correct year: In ______, the government of the Netherlands resigned, citing its inability to prevent the massacre.
  86. Complete the sentence about Markale massacres with the correct year: The second occurred on 28 August ______ when five mortar shells launched by Army of Republika Srpska killed 43 people and wounded 7…
  87. Complete the sentence about Markale massacres with the correct year: The first massacre occurred between 12:10 and 12:15, on 5 February ______, when a 120-millimeter mortar shell landed in the center…
  88. Complete the sentence about Markale massacres with the correct year: The second massacre occurred about 18 months later, at around 11:00 on 28 August ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Markale massacres with the correct year: The UNPROFOR investigation stated that "five rounds landed near the Markale Market at 11:10 on 28 August ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Dayton Agreement with the correct year: Bosnia and Herzegovina entered into the related arms control treaty, the Florence Agreement, in ______ under the Accords.
  91. Complete the sentence about Dayton Agreement with the correct year: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe was charged with organising the first free elections in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Bosnian independence referendum, 1992 with the correct year: In November ______, the first free elections were held, putting nationalist parties into power with three parti…
  93. Complete the sentence about Bosnian independence referendum, 1992 with the correct year: As early as September or October ______, the JNA had begun to arm Bosnian Serbs and organize them into militias…
  94. Complete the sentence about Bosnian independence referendum, 1992 with the correct year: On 24 October ______, the SDS formed the Assembly of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in November…
  95. Complete the sentence about Bosnian independence referendum, 1992 with the correct year: In January ______, the assembly declared the creation of the Republic of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegov…
  96. Complete the sentence about Republika Srpska with the correct year: Republika Srpska was established in ______ at the onset of the Bosnian War with the stated purpose of safeguarding the interests of…
  97. Complete the sentence about Republika Srpska with the correct year: The ______ Dayton Agreement created Republika Srpska as one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two constituent entities.
  98. Complete the sentence about Brčko District with the correct year: The arbitration agreement was later finalized in March ______, resulting in a "district" that was to be administrated by an American B…
  99. Complete the sentence about Brčko District with the correct year: Since ______, Principal Deputy High Representative has taken over the Brcko supervisor role.
  100. Complete the sentence about Brčko District with the correct year: The first Brčko International Supervisor arrived in April ______.

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