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  1. Complete the sentence about Košice with the correct year: In ______, Košice was the European Capital of Culture, together with Marseille, France.
  2. Complete the sentence about Košice with the correct year: The first written mention of the city was in ______ as "Villa Cassa".
  3. Complete the sentence about Prešov with the correct year: The city and the region were contenders for European Capital of Culture ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Prešov with the correct year: After the Mongol invasion in ______, King Béla IV of Hungary invited German colonists to fill the gaps in population.
  5. Complete the sentence about Prešov with the correct year: In ______, Prešov helped to create the Pentapolitana, the league of five towns, a trading group.
  6. Complete the sentence about Žilina with the correct year: From the second half of the 10th century until ______, it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
  7. Complete the sentence about Žilina with the correct year: On 7 May ______, King Louis I issued Privilegium pro Slavis, which made the Slav inhabitants equal to the Germans by allocating half of the se…
  8. Complete the sentence about Žilina with the correct year: In the Revolutions of ______, Slovak volunteers, part of the Imperial Army, won a battle near the city against Hungarian honveds and gardists.
  9. Complete the sentence about Žilina with the correct year: On 6 October ______, shortly after the Munich Agreement, the autonomy of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia was declared in Žilina.
  10. Complete the sentence about Banská Bystrica with the correct year: Although the first written record of the name Byzterchebana dates from ______, it was rarely used afterwards.
  11. Complete the sentence about Banská Bystrica with the correct year: In the Austrian Empire, the German name Neusohl was used until the compromise of ______, when the Hungarian name Besztercebánya becam…
  12. Complete the sentence about Banská Bystrica with the correct year: Banská Bystrica became the official name of the town in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Trnava with the correct year: By the early 13th century, the king of Hungary had invited numerous Germans to settle in Trnava; this settlement increased after the Tatar inv…
  14. Complete the sentence about Trnava with the correct year: In April ______, the Hussites penetrated close to the town and defeated the Hungarian army in the Battle of Trnava.
  15. Complete the sentence about Trnava with the correct year: On 24 June ______, a small group of Hussites masked as tradesmen entered the town, overcame the guards in the night, and captured the town wit…
  16. Complete the sentence about Martin, Slovakia with the correct year: The first recorded reference to Martin in written sources is dated to ______ under the name of Vila Sancti Martini.
  17. Complete the sentence about Martin, Slovakia with the correct year: In the turbulent 15th century, Martin suffered from many disasters, for example, from the attack of the Hussites in ______, when the…
  18. Complete the sentence about Martin, Slovakia with the correct year: The National Council of the Slovak Republic declared the city of Martin the center of national culture of the Slovaks on 24 August _…
  19. Complete the sentence about Poprad with the correct year: The first written record dates from 16 March ______ in the deed of donation of the Hungarian King Bela IV.
  20. Complete the sentence about Poprad with the correct year: Since ______, this territory has been placed under the control of Czechoslovakia.
  21. Complete the sentence about Prievidza with the correct year: The first written mention of Prievidza was in ______, as Preuigan.
  22. Complete the sentence about Prievidza with the correct year: Ottomans approached Prievidza from the south and burned it in ______, along with other towns in the upper Nitra river valley.
  23. Complete the sentence about Prievidza with the correct year: During the Kuruc uprising in ______, Prievidza was burned down again, with fire burning a part of town's archives.
  24. Complete the sentence about Prievidza with the correct year: On 4 April ______, Prievidza was captured by troops of the Soviet 40th Army.
  25. Complete the sentence about Považská Bystrica with the correct year: The motorway viaduct was built through the narrowest segment of the town, which was opened on 31 May ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Považská Bystrica with the correct year: The next known reference about Považská Bystrica is dated 13 July ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Michalovce with the correct year: Since the Austrian-Hungarian Ausgleich of ______, it achieved the status of a large community, and shortly afterward became the seat of on…
  28. Complete the sentence about Michalovce with the correct year: In ______, there were 49 craftsman workshops representing all 22 kinds of craft production of the crafts licences in the region of Zemplin…
  29. Complete the sentence about Spišská Nová Ves with the correct year: A Gothic bell foundry was established by Konrád Gaal, who made a large hanging bell for Louis I of Hungary, and was consequently kni…
  30. Complete the sentence about Komárno with the correct year: One disputed record of the name of the settlement can be dated back to ______ as Camarum.
  31. Complete the sentence about Humenné with the correct year: The first written document mentioning Humenné dates back to ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Humenné with the correct year: The most significant town monument, a Renaissance castle, was built on the place of an original stone castle in about ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Humenné with the correct year: In ______, during the Counter Reformation, a Jesuit college was established as the first secondary school in the history of Humenné.
  34. Complete the sentence about Humenné with the correct year: The Drugeth line died out in ______, and new feudal lords moved in, notably the Csákys and the Wandernats.
  35. Complete the sentence about Liptovský Mikuláš with the correct year: The first written record mentioning the Church of Saint Nicolaus which was to become the founding element of a larger settlement da…
  36. Complete the sentence about Liptovský Mikuláš with the correct year: The legendary Slovak "Robin Hood" Juraj Jánošík was sentenced and executed here in ______ by being hung by the ribcage on a hook.
  37. Complete the sentence about Liptovský Mikuláš with the correct year: Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in ______, Liptovský Mikuláš was part of Liptó County within the Kingdom of…
  38. Complete the sentence about Ružomberok with the correct year: The Germans had had a dominant position probably until ______ when many rich families left the town under the pressure of the Hussites.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ružomberok with the correct year: After the break-up of Austria-Hungary in ______, Ružomberok became a part of Czechoslovakia.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ružomberok with the correct year: On 5 April ______, Ružomberok was captured by troops of the I Czechoslovak Army Corps, acting as a part of the Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front.
  41. Complete the sentence about Ružomberok with the correct year: Ružomberok became again part of Czechoslovakia, and after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in ______, it became part of Slovakia.
  42. Complete the sentence about Piešťany with the correct year: In ______, the spa buildings were expanded and remodeled in neo-classical style and named Napoleon Spa.
  43. Complete the sentence about Lučenec with the correct year: In ______, as a result of the Treaty of Trianon, it became a part of Czechoslovakia.
  44. Complete the sentence about Lučenec with the correct year: The town has a large synagogue, built in ______, which served a large Jewish population before World War II.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lučenec with the correct year: The first indirect mention of Lučenec was in ______, when Lambert built a chapel in honour of Virgin Mary.
  46. Complete the sentence about Lučenec with the correct year: Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in ______, Lučenec was part of Nógrád County within the Kingdom of Hungary.
  47. Complete the sentence about Topoľčany with the correct year: In ______ the countryside was pillaged by a rogue noble who had captured the castle, but was later evicted by the king and sent to Moravia.
  48. Complete the sentence about Dubnica nad Váhom with the correct year: The town's cadastral area is composed of Dubnica and "city part" Prejta, annexed in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Dubnica nad Váhom with the correct year: The first written mention about Dubnica nad Váhom was in ______ as Dubnicza.
  50. Complete the sentence about Dubnica nad Váhom with the correct year: During January ______ several inmates and one guard fell ill with typhus.
  51. Complete the sentence about Dubnica nad Váhom with the correct year: On February 23, ______ the inmates were taken out and murdered to stop the spread of Typhus.
  52. Complete the sentence about Pezinok with the correct year: Pezinok, or at least its surroundings, was mentioned in writing for the first time in ______ under the name "terra Bozin".
  53. Complete the sentence about Pezinok with the correct year: In ______ The local counts, Counts Wolfang and George von Pezinok and St.
  54. Complete the sentence about Pezinok with the correct year: On May 21, ______, 30 Jewish men, women and children were burned at the stake.
  55. Complete the sentence about Trebišov with the correct year: The first written reference to the castle stems from ______, during the reign of Béla IV of Hungary.
  56. Complete the sentence about Trebišov with the correct year: After ______ the castle was given by Sigismund of Luxemburg to Peter Perényi.
  57. Complete the sentence about Trebišov with the correct year: Mathias Corvinus has overtaken the castle in ______ from Stephen Perényi, who became a "robber knight", after a siege and given the castle t…
  58. Complete the sentence about Čadca with the correct year: The town was established in the 17th century; the first written reference dates back to ______ as Tzaczcka.
  59. Complete the sentence about Rimavská Sobota with the correct year: In ______ the ownership changed to Thomas Szécsényi from Transylvania.
  60. Complete the sentence about Rimavská Sobota with the correct year: The town received a privilege charted in ______ on the basis of the Buda municipal law.
  61. Complete the sentence about Dunajská Streda with the correct year: The first detailed description of the town came from a charter of King Charles I of Hungary from ______, when the king gave the estat…
  62. Complete the sentence about Skalica with the correct year: The first written record of Skalica was made in ______ as Szacholca.
  63. Complete the sentence about Skalica with the correct year: In ______, Skalica became a bastion for the Hussites; during the Hussite Wars, the majority of its then predominantly German-speaking populac…
  64. Complete the sentence about Skalica with the correct year: On 6 November ______, Skalica became the seat of the Temporary Government of Slovakia, for ten days de facto capital of Slovakia.
  65. Complete the sentence about Kežmarok with the correct year: The Hungarian magnate and warrior Imre Thököly was born in the town in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Kežmarok with the correct year: In pride of place is the Protestant church built in ______ entirely of wood.
  67. Complete the sentence about Kežmarok with the correct year: Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in ______, Kežmarok was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary.
  68. Complete the sentence about Kežmarok with the correct year: On 27 January ______, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Kežmarok in the course of the Western Carpathian offensive, and it was once…
  69. Complete the sentence about Banská Štiavnica with the correct year: Because of their historical value, the town and its surroundings were proclaimed by the UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site on Decemb…
  70. Complete the sentence about Banská Štiavnica with the correct year: The single common name „Schebnyzbana“ was documented for the first time in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Banská Štiavnica with the correct year: Banská Štiavnica gained the status of a royal town in ______, as one of the first towns in the Kingdom of Hungary.
  72. Complete the sentence about Kremnica with the correct year: The first written reference to the town dates back to ______, when it was granted royal town privileges by King Charles I of Hungary.
  73. Complete the sentence about Štrbské Pleso with the correct year: The Tatra trolley linked it with other resorts on the Slovak side of the Tatras in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Štrbské Pleso with the correct year: The adjacent area of Nové Štrbské Pleso began to develop in ______ when the land was purchased by the architect Karol Móry of Banská By…
  75. Complete the sentence about Spiš with the correct year: The history of the region until ______ is given in more detail at Szepes County.
  76. Complete the sentence about Liptov with the correct year: After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in ______, Liptov became the region of present-day Slovakia.
  77. Complete the sentence about Turiec with the correct year: The region is not an administrative division today, but between the late 11th century and ______ it was the Turóc County in the Kingdom of Hun…
  78. Complete the sentence about Turiec with the correct year: In ______, by the Treaty of Trianon, the territory became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia.
  79. Complete the sentence about Turiec with the correct year: In ______, Czechoslovakia was split and Turiec became part of Slovakia.
  80. Complete the sentence about Gemer with the correct year: The first Slovak high school teaching in Slovak was opened in Nagyrőce in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Devín Castle with the correct year: Before ______, the Iron Curtain between the Eastern Bloc and the West ran just in front of the castle.
  82. Complete the sentence about Devín Castle with the correct year: Nearly 100 years later in ______, Palatine Pál Pálffy took the castle out of pledge from the Palocsai family.
  83. Complete the sentence about Orava Castle with the correct year: Orava Castle stands on the site of an old wooden fortification, built after the Mongol invasion of Hungary of ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Bojnice Castle with the correct year: Bojnice Castle was first mentioned in written records in ______, in a document held at the Zobor Abbey.
  85. Complete the sentence about Bojnice Castle with the correct year: The Thurzós, the richest family in the northern Kingdom of Hungary, acquired the castle in ______ and undertook its major reconstructi…
  86. Complete the sentence about Trenčín Castle with the correct year: In ______ the Treaty of Trentschin was concluded at the castle between King Casimir III of Poland, King Charles I of Hungary and King…
  87. Complete the sentence about Krásna Hôrka with the correct year: In ______ Krásna Hôrka was designated a National Cultural Monument of the Slovak Republic.
  88. Complete the sentence about Krásna Hôrka with the correct year: In ______, the castle passed into the hands of the Hungarian nobleman Péter Andrássy.
  89. Complete the sentence about St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava with the correct year: The church was relocated in ______, and was originally built in Romanesque style and dedicated to the Holy Saviour…
  90. Complete the sentence about St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava with the correct year: Construction of a new Gothic cathedral began in ______ on the site of the earlier church and an adjacent cemetery.
  91. Complete the sentence about Slavín with the correct year: The monument was inaugurated in ______ on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of the city by the Soviet army.
  92. Complete the sentence about UFO Bridge with the correct year: The change took effect on 29 August ______, the 68th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.
  93. Complete the sentence about Primate's Palace, Bratislava with the correct year: During reconstruction in ______, a series of six previously unknown tapestries were found behind a wall, depicting the l…
  94. Complete the sentence about Primate's Palace, Bratislava with the correct year: The Palace served as a temporary seat of the President of Slovakia before the Grassalkovich Palace became the permanent…
  95. Complete the sentence about Vlkolínec with the correct year: Vlkolínec has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ______, and is one of ten Slovak villages that have been given the status o…
  96. Complete the sentence about Gerlachovský štít with the correct year: In ______, as part of Austria-Hungary, it was named after state Emperor Francis Joseph I.
  97. Complete the sentence about Gerlachovský štít with the correct year: After the dissolution of the monarchy in ______, the mountain continued to be known simply as Gerlachovský štít because it belonged…
  98. Complete the sentence about Tatra Mountains with the correct year: Another mention is in the ______ document from Henry IV, wherein he referred to the Diocese of Prague with Tritri mountains.
  99. Complete the sentence about Tatra Mountains with the correct year: In ______ Belsazar Hacquet wrote that Slavs call these mountains Tatari or Tatri because there used to be Tatar hordes roaming the ar…
  100. Complete the sentence about Slovak Ore Mountains with the correct year: From ______ one of the first multinational corporations was set up by the Thurzó and Fugger families to take advantage of the re…

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