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  1. Complete the sentence about Skopje with the correct year: In ______, following the Balkan Wars, Skopje was annexed by the Kingdom of Serbia.
  2. Complete the sentence about Skopje with the correct year: Skopje became the capital of independent North Macedonia in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Bitola with the correct year: A golden earring dating from the 4th century BC is depicted on the obverse of the Macedonian 10-denar banknote, issued in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo with the correct year: In ______, during the First Balkan War, Serbian forces won a decisive victory over the Ottomans north of the town.
  5. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo with the correct year: The entire region of Macedonia was split in three between Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria after the Treaty of Bucharest in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo with the correct year: During World War II, the communist resistance in Vardar Macedonia began in Kumanovo on 11 October ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo with the correct year: The rapid economic, administrative and cultural expansion of Kumanovo began in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Prilep with the correct year: In September ______ archeological excavations in Bonče, revealed a tomb of what is believed to be the burial site of a Macedonian ruler dating…
  9. Complete the sentence about Prilep with the correct year: In ______, Byzantine emperor Michael IV defeated Petar Delyan's rebellion in the region of Prilep.
  10. Complete the sentence about Veles, North Macedonia with the correct year: After World War II, the city was known as Titov Veles after Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito, but the 'Titov' was removed…
  11. Complete the sentence about Strumica with the correct year: The Strumica region remained part of the Bulgarian state throughout a period of more than 150 years right up until ______, when it was retak…
  12. Complete the sentence about Strumica with the correct year: In ______, Byzantine commander David Arianites captured the city from the Bulgarians.
  13. Complete the sentence about Gostivar with the correct year: Kanchov wrote in ______ that many Albanians declared themselves as Turks.
  14. Complete the sentence about Gostivar with the correct year: Gostivar remained under Ottoman rule for more than 500 years until ______, when it was occupied by Serbian troops during the First Balkan Wa…
  15. Complete the sentence about Kočani with the correct year: Although the settlement existed long before that, Kočani was first mentioned in a charter from ______ in which Despot Jovan Oliver donated the…
  16. Complete the sentence about Kočani with the correct year: The travel chronicler Evliya Çelebi, who visited it in ______, recorded that it had 600 households, a mosque, a mezjid, an inn and 15 handicra…
  17. Complete the sentence about Kičevo with the correct year: The city first fell under Serbian rule during the reign of Stefan Uroš I and finally under Stefan Milutin in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Kičevo with the correct year: On August 2, ______, the Christian citizens of Kičevo participated in the Ilinden Uprising, led by Arso Vojvoda and Yordan Piperkata.
  19. Complete the sentence about Kičevo with the correct year: In ______ Kičevo and the whole region were incorporated in the Kingdom of Serbia.
  20. Complete the sentence about Debar with the correct year: The Byzantine emperor Basil II knew of its existence, historian Anna Komnena recorded the name as Devré in the Alexiad, and Feliks Petančić ref…
  21. Complete the sentence about Debar with the correct year: Debar was liberated in ______ by Skanderbeg and 300 Albanian soldiers who had defected from the Ottoman army at the Battle of Niš.
  22. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The formation of the town is noted in Turkish documents from ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Sveti Nikole with the correct year: On the ______ ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the town is written as "Kliseli" shown as having a mixed population of Christian Bulg…
  24. Complete the sentence about Makedonski Brod with the correct year: The League of Lezhë, under Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, won a victory over the Ottomans nearby in the Battle of Mokra in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Demir Kapija with the correct year: Local football club FK Lozar was merged in ______ with FK Vardar Negotino.
  26. Complete the sentence about Lake Prespa with the correct year: With its abundance of rare fauna and flora, the area was declared a Transnational Park in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Matka Canyon with the correct year: Andrew's Monastery, founded around ______ by Prince Marko's brother Andrew, is situated in the gorge of the Treska River.
  28. Complete the sentence about Matka Canyon with the correct year: According to an inscription on the church, someone named Milica found the church in poor condition and without a roof in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Pelister with the correct year: In terms of wolves, there was an estimated total of ______ wolves in the entire country of North Macedonia, with an estimated 54 lynx when t…
  30. Complete the sentence about Galičica with the correct year: Major transformations in land use on Galičica Mountain have been documented between the 1950s and ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Pelister National Park with the correct year: Pelister is Macedonia's first national park and among the oldest in the Balkans, established in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Pelister National Park with the correct year: Organized mountaineering activities began with the establishment of the mountaineering society "Pelagonija" in ______, later r…
  33. Complete the sentence about Pelister National Park with the correct year: Pelister was the first national park in Yugoslavia, declared on November 30, ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Vardar Macedonia with the correct year: In August ______ the Democratic Federal Macedonia was proclaimed with Vardar Macedonia as part of it.
  35. Complete the sentence about Pelagonia with the correct year: In April ______, during the Nazi German-led Operation Marita, the Monastir Gap again became a critical invasion route.
  36. Complete the sentence about Geography of North Macedonia with the correct year: The settled boundary from Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of Bulgaria was accepted after the independence in ______…
  37. Complete the sentence about Skopje Fortress with the correct year: In ______ at the Skopje Fortress, Stefan Dušan adopted the title of Emperor at his coronation and he had transferred the capital of S…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The inscription reads: The wise son of Mehmed-han in the year ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Macedonia Square with the correct year: On 2 May ______, two monuments of Goce Delčev and Dame Gruev were erected near the Stone Bridge.
  40. Complete the sentence about Skopje 2014 with the correct year: The ______ Skopje earthquake destroyed approximately 80% of the city, including most of the neoclassical buildings in the central part of…
  41. Complete the sentence about Mother Teresa Memorial House with the correct year: In ______, the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was promoted to a cultural heritage object.
  42. Complete the sentence about Mother Teresa Memorial House with the correct year: In ______, architect Miroslav Grčev called for the demolishment of the museum, along with Porta Macedonia.
  43. Complete the sentence about Saint Naum Monastery with the correct year: Rebecca West devoted a chapter of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon to her visit to Sveti Naum, which occurred in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Kokino with the correct year: The claim of the site representing an astronomical observatory was made by Stankovski and by Gjore Cenev in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lesnovo Monastery with the correct year: The new monastic complex known today was founded in ______ by Despotes Jovan Oliver Grčinić, a magnate of Serbian kingdom who owned…
  46. Complete the sentence about Marko's Towers with the correct year: After the death of King Marko in ______, this settlement was taken by Ottoman forces.
  47. Complete the sentence about Vevčani with the correct year: The most famous spring is Jankov Kamen, which is situated at ______ m above sea level.
  48. Complete the sentence about Vevčani with the correct year: The highest and most prominent glacial lake is Lokva, which is over ______ m above sea level on Mount Jablanica.
  49. Complete the sentence about Galičnik with the correct year: In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in ______, the village of Galičnik was inhabited by 3300 Orthodox Bulgarians.
  50. Complete the sentence about Galičnik with the correct year: On his ______ ethnic map of Northwestern Macedonia, Afanasy Selishchev marked Galičnik as a Bulgarian village.
  51. Complete the sentence about Skopje Airport with the correct year: The first flight and landing in Skopje was done in ______ during the Balkan war by Serbian military aviators.
  52. Complete the sentence about Skopje Airport with the correct year: In ______, Skopje became part of Bulgaria during World War I and a military airport was established there, which was key for Bulgarian…
  53. Complete the sentence about Skopje Airport with the correct year: An airport was built in ______ near what is today a neighborhood called Aerodrom.
  54. Complete the sentence about Skopje Airport with the correct year: The first commercial flights in Skopje were introduced in ______ when the Yugoslav carrier Aeroput introduced a route linking the city…
  55. Complete the sentence about Skopje Airport with the correct year: A year later, the route was extended to Thessaloniki and further to Athens in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Alexander the Great Airport with the correct year: On 12 October ______, a new airport opened near the town of Chrysoupoli, where it still operates.
  57. Complete the sentence about Alexander the Great Airport with the correct year: On 22 March ______, Fraport Greece presented its master plan for the 14 Greek regional airports, including the Internatio…
  58. Complete the sentence about Struga Poetry Evenings with the correct year: In ______, in close cooperation with UNESCO, the Festival established another international award called The Bridges of Struga…
  59. Complete the sentence about Vrutok with the correct year: According to ethnographer Vasil Kanchov's data from ______, the village was inhabited by 460 Christian Bulgarians, 300 Muslim Albanians and 24…
  60. Complete the sentence about Vrutok with the correct year: According to the ______ Albanian census, Vrutok was inhabited by 929 Muslim Albanians, 128 Serbs and 150 Bulgarians.
  61. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia with the correct year: Since ______, it has been a candidate for joining the European Union.
  62. Complete the sentence about Titov Vrv with the correct year: In ______, the peak was renamed to Mount Aleksandar, in honor of Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia, after his assassination.
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Štip? The city is located at the intersection of the Lakavica, Ovče Pole, and ______ valleys.
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Gostivar? Vardar River extends through Gostivar, cutting it in half, passes through the capital ______, goes through the country, enters Greece and finally re…
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Kičevo? Kičevo was noted in one of the documents of the Byzantine emperor Basil II in 1018, and also mentioned by the ______ archbishop Theophilact in the 11t…
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Kičevo? The city would become a part of the First Bulgarian Empire and it was one of the first cities to be added to the Archbishopric of ______.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Demir Kapija? Local football club FK Lozar was merged in 2006 with FK Vardar ______.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Vardar? The superhighways Greek National Road 1 in Greece and M1 and E75 run within the valley along the river's entire length to near ______.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Ohrid? In 2014, the ______-Prespa Transboundary Reserve between Albania and North Macedonia was added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Ohrid? Albania's side of Lake ______ was also designated UNESCO world heritage status in 2019.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Prespa? In 2014, ______-Prespa Transboundary Biosphere Reserve between Albania and North Macedonia was added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reser…
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Belasica? Two football teams are named after the mountain range, PFC Belasitsa from the nearby Bulgarian town of Petrich and FK Belasica from ______ in North…
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Pelagonia? After the fragmentation of the Serbian Empire, Pelagonia was part of the Lordship of ______ up until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire at the end…
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Pelagonia? During the Balkan Wars, the Greek Army captured Florina from the Ottomans in November 1912, and intended to capture the entire Pelagonian plain, in…
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Pelagonia? The gap is named after Monastir, an alternative historical name for ______, which is the largest city in the plain.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Municipalities of North Macedonia? In 2004 they were reduced to 84, and in 2013, the following municipalities were merged into the ______ Municipality: Drugov…
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Skopje Fortress? In 1346 at the ______ Fortress, Stefan Dušan adopted the title of Emperor at his coronation and he had transferred the capital of Serbian Emp…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Skopje Fortress? In late 2006 and early 2007, research and excavation of the ______ Fortress funded by the Macedonian government had finally commenced.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Skopje 2014? The ______ 2014 project encompassed the construction, from 2010 to 2014, of 136 structures built at a cost of more than US$700 million.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Treskavec Monastery? Bogorodica, is a monastery situated on the rocky Mount Zlatovrv, 8km north of ______, in North Macedonia.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Treskavec Monastery? The monastery is located in a remote area, with a steep 8km hike necessary to reach it from the nearest town of ______.
  82. Which place completes the sentence? The village is located 14 km north-west of the town of ______.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Struga Poetry Evenings? In 2003, in close cooperation with UNESCO, the Festival established another international award called The Bridges of ______, for a be…
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Struga Poetry Evenings? In memory of the laureates, the Park of Poetry featuring memorial boards dedicated to each of them was established near the ______ Cul…
  85. Complete the sentence about Lake Ohrid with the correct year: North Macedonia's portion was designated as a protected Ramsar site in ______, passing all nine criteria for proclamation.
  86. Complete the sentence about Geography of North Macedonia with the correct year: But in ______ when Kosovo declared independence the border with it was remarked again.
  87. Complete the sentence about Climate of North Macedonia with the correct year: The settled boundary from Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of Bulgaria was accepted after the independence in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Macedonia Square with the correct year: Dimitar Vlahov Street was converted into a pedestrian street in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Mother Teresa Memorial House with the correct year: On her 100th birthday anniversary, the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was incorporated into the Skopje ______ project.
  90. Complete the sentence with the correct year: I admit that some critiques about Skopje ______ are reasonable.
  91. Complete the sentence about Kale Fortress with the correct year: In ______ at the Skopje Fortress, Stefan Dušan adopted the title of Emperor at his coronation and he had transferred the capital of Ser…
  92. Complete the sentence about Old Bazaar, Skopje with the correct year: Machiel Kiel has been conducting a contemporary architectural survey of the old bazaar before the Skopje earthquake of ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Millennium Cross with the correct year: On 8 September ______, the Independence Day of the Republic of North Macedonia, an elevator was installed inside the cross.
  94. Complete the sentence about Vodno with the correct year: In ______, on Krstovar peak the Millennium Cross was built, one of the biggest Christian Crosses in the world.
  95. Complete the sentence about Vodno with the correct year: As of ______, a gondola lift has been in operation to allow an easy ascent to visit the Millennium Cross.
  96. Complete the sentence about Saint Panteleimon Monastery with the correct year: The first Russian leader to visit the monastery was President Vladimir Putin on September 9, ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Vevčani with the correct year: The highest spring is "Golina" situated over ______ m above sea level.
  98. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo Municipality with the correct year: After the Karposh Uprising in ______, Kumanovo entered a period of stagnation.
  99. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo Municipality with the correct year: After ______, Kumanovo experienced fast economic, administrative and cultural development.
  100. Complete the sentence about Kumanovo Municipality with the correct year: By the ______ territorial division of the Republic, the Orašac Municipality was merged with Kumanovo, as was a part of the rura…

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