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  1. Complete the sentence about Tsar Samuel with the correct year: But from ______, he was forced mainly to defend the Empire against the superior Byzantine armies.
  2. Complete the sentence about Tsar Samuel with the correct year: Samuel died of a heart attack on 6 October ______, two months after the catastrophic battle of Kleidion.
  3. Complete the sentence about Stefan Dušan with the correct year: In ______, Serbian King Stefan Milutin quarreled with his son, Stefan Dečanski.
  4. Complete the sentence about Stefan Dušan with the correct year: Milutin became ill and died on 29 October ______, and Konstantin was crowned king.
  5. Complete the sentence about Stefan Dušan with the correct year: Dečanski was crowned king on 6 January ______ by Nicodemus, and his son, Stefan Dušan, was crowned "young king".
  6. Complete the sentence about Stefan Dušan with the correct year: Since April ______ Dušan appears in written sources as the "young king" and ruler in Zeta and Zahumlje.
  7. Complete the sentence about Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising with the correct year: The latter was incorporated in IMARO by ______ and its members as Ivan Garvanov, were to exert a significant influence…
  8. Complete the sentence about Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising with the correct year: In ______, Garvanov developed a friendship with Supremists' new leader Boris Sarafov, through which Garvanov managed t…
  9. Complete the sentence about Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization with the correct year: According to the Organization's earliest statute from ______, the membership was reserved exclusively…
  10. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Organisation established its Foreign Representation in ______ in Sofia.
  11. Complete the sentence about Pitu Guli with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Macedonia, as part of a rebel squad of the revolutionary movement against the Ottoman Empire, led by Adam Kalmiko…
  12. Complete the sentence about Pitu Guli with the correct year: In ______, he again returned to Kruševo and became a member of IMARO.
  13. Complete the sentence about Pitu Guli with the correct year: In March ______, he began commanding a revolutionary squad, crossing the Bulgarian-Ottoman border heading for Kruševo.
  14. Complete the sentence about Pitu Guli with the correct year: From April to August ______, he trained and prepared his irregulars for the upcoming Ilinden Uprising.
  15. Complete the sentence about Krste Misirkov with the correct year: In ______, he was among the founders of the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society.
  16. Complete the sentence about Krste Misirkov with the correct year: In early ______, he returned to Belgrade again, to the Theological School.
  17. Complete the sentence about Krste Misirkov with the correct year: In ______, after graduating, he transferred back to Belgrade to study in the "Teachers' School".
  18. Complete the sentence about Treaty of San Stefano with the correct year: Salisbury wrote at the end of ______ 'We shall set up a rickety sort of Turkish rule again south of the Balkans.
  19. 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 ______.
  20. 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.
  21. Complete the sentence about Balkan Wars with the correct year: The war set the stage for the July crisis of ______ and was a prelude to the First World War.
  22. Complete the sentence about First Balkan War with the correct year: Serbia's aspirations to take over Bosnia and Herzegovina were thwarted by the Bosnian crisis, which led to the Austrian annexation o…
  23. Complete the sentence about First Balkan War with the correct year: In ______, Italy had launched an invasion of Tripolitania, now in Libya, which was quickly followed by the occupation of the Dodecan…
  24. Complete the sentence about Second Balkan War with the correct year: Petersburg of 9 May ______, Bulgaria agreed to give up Silistra.
  25. Complete the sentence about Vardar Banovina with the correct year: In ______, the World War II Axis powers occupied the Vardar Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria, German-occupied Serbia, and Alb…
  26. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, he established the 6 January Dictatorship, and soon renamed the kingdom Yugoslavia.
  27. 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…
  28. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the correct year: In April ______, the country was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers.
  29. 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…
  30. Complete the sentence about Josip Broz Tito with the correct year: Tito participated in the Russian Revolution in ______ and the Russian Civil War.
  31. 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…
  32. 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.
  33. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: Prince Paul headed the state as a prince regent until Alexander's son Peter II was declared of-age, which happened following the Yugoslav…
  34. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: The kingdom was invaded and occupied by the Axis powers in April ______, marking the start of World War II in Yugoslavia.
  35. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: In ______, King Peter II, then living in exile, gave his recognition to the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia…
  36. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: In November ______, after the war ended, the regency council appointed by the King called a parliamentary election that established the Co…
  37. Complete the sentence about Yugoslavia with the correct year: The Constituent Assembly proclaimed Yugoslavia a federal republic on 29 November ______, thus abolishing monarchical rule.
  38. Complete the sentence about Yugoslav Wars with the correct year: After Tito's death in ______, relations between the six republics of the federation deteriorated.
  39. Complete the sentence about Yugoslav Wars with the correct year: Although tensions in Yugoslavia had been mounting since the early 1980s, events in ______ proved to be decisive.
  40. Complete the sentence about Kiro Gligorov with the correct year: In ______, Gligorov was arrested by Bulgarian police on the accusation that he was a pro-Serbian communist.
  41. Complete the sentence about Kiro Gligorov with the correct year: On 2 August ______, he took part in the first session of ASNOM as a delegate.
  42. Complete the sentence about Boris Trajkovski with the correct year: After the Republic of Macedonia's independence, he became a member of the political party VMRO-DPMNE in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Branko Crvenkovski with the correct year: Crvenkovski was born on 12 October ______ in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal People's Republic of Y…
  44. Complete the sentence about Branko Crvenkovski with the correct year: In ______, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Automation from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Ss…
  45. Complete the sentence about Branko Crvenkovski with the correct year: SKM was transformed into the political party Social Democratic Union of Macedonia in April ______ and he was elected as its presid…
  46. Complete the sentence about Gjorge Ivanov with the correct year: Until ______, he was an activist in the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia and a member of the last presidency of the organisation…
  47. Complete the sentence about Gjorge Ivanov with the correct year: In ______, he became a visiting professor for the Southeast European programme at the University of Athens in Greece.
  48. Complete the sentence about Stevo Pendarovski with the correct year: Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in ______, later earning his MA and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the same unive…
  49. Complete the sentence about Stevo Pendarovski with the correct year: In ______, Pendarovski joined the cabinet of President Boris Trajkovski, where he worked as a national security advisor.
  50. Complete the sentence about Stevo Pendarovski with the correct year: President Trajkovski and eight other people, including three members of his cabinet, died in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovin…
  51. Complete the sentence about Stevo Pendarovski with the correct year: Pendarovski left the presidential cabinet in ______, when Crvenkovski ended his presidency.
  52. Complete the sentence about Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova with the correct year: In VMRO-DPMNE's conference at Struga, she was nominated as the candidate for the party in the presidential elections of _…
  53. Complete the sentence about Nikola Gruevski with the correct year: Born in Skopje, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on 31 August ______, Gruevski was raised in a family that was neither privi…
  54. Complete the sentence about Hristijan Mickoski with the correct year: Mickoski was born on 29 September ______ in Skopje, then in Socialist Republic of Macedonia, part of SFR Yugoslavia.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ljubčo Georgievski with the correct year: Ljubčo Georgievski was born on 17 January ______ in Štip, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia, where he had primary and secondary educati…
  56. Complete the sentence about Ljubčo Georgievski with the correct year: In ______, Georgievski graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Ss.
  57. Complete the sentence about Ljubčo Georgievski with the correct year: The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity was founded on 17 June ______…
  58. Complete the sentence about Ljubčo Georgievski with the correct year: In the first multi-party elections in ______ Georgievski with his party had won the biggest number of seats in the Macedonian Asse…
  59. Complete the sentence about Assembly of North Macedonia with the correct year: The first constitution of the country was adopted in November ______, declaring it a parliamentary democracy.
  60. Complete the sentence about President of North Macedonia with the correct year: The office was formally established a few months before the declaration of independence on 8 September ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about President of North Macedonia with the correct year: The first president was Kiro Gligorov, the oldest Macedonian political official, until his resignation in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about President of North Macedonia with the correct year: During the period of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, there was a collective presidency which was abolished in _____…
  63. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: In May ______, the currency was reformed and a new denar was introduced, with one new denar being equal to 100 old denars.
  64. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: The first denar was a temporary currency introduced on 26 April ______ to replace the Yugoslav dinar at 1:1 parity and establish the…
  65. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 8 September ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: But secret preparations were begun to introduce its own currency, and by April ______, Macedonia was ready to acquire monetary indep…
  67. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: Notes in the form of "value coupons" entered circulation the following day, and on 30 April ______, the Yugoslav dinar ceased to be…
  68. Complete the sentence about Macedonian denar with the correct year: In May ______, the first denar was replaced at a rate of 100 to 1 by a new, permanent denar consisting of notes and coins.
  69. Complete the sentence about National Bank of North Macedonia with the correct year: The Macedonian denar was first adopted as temporary currency on 26 April ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about National Bank of North Macedonia with the correct year: The National Bank changed its name to "Republic of North Macedonia" in ______, following the Prespa Agreement.
  71. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia and NATO with the correct year: Macedonia was part of the Vilnius Group and formed the Adriatic Charter with Croatia and Albania in ______ to better coordin…
  72. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia and NATO with the correct year: Participating in the ______ NATO intervention in Kosovo, it received aid from NATO in dealing with refugees fleeing from Kos…
  73. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia and NATO with the correct year: The ICJ ruled in December ______ that Greece was wrong to have blocked its neighbor's bid, finding them in breach of the agr…
  74. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of North Macedonia with the correct year: Liaison Office was upgraded to an embassy in February ______, and the first U.S.
  75. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of North Macedonia with the correct year: In ______, the United States recognized the country under its constitutional name of that time – Republic of Mac…
  76. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of North Macedonia with the correct year: North Macedonia opened its first resident embassy in Tokyo in ______ and the first resident ambassador of North…
  77. Complete the sentence about Economy of North Macedonia with the correct year: Since its ______ independence movement, the Macedonian economy liberalized, with highly accommodative foreign policy.
  78. Complete the sentence about Army of North Macedonia with the correct year: The Republic of Macedonia became a sovereign and independent state in ______, following the 8 September referendum.
  79. Complete the sentence about Army of North Macedonia with the correct year: Macedonian officials argued that the republic had been contributing to the federal army budget since ______, therefore most o…
  80. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Albania relations with the correct year: Albania, through President Sali Berisha became one of the early states to recognise Macedonia in April ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Albania relations with the correct year: In February ______, an attempt was made to open an Albanian university in Macedonia and the move was halted by poli…
  82. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Albania relations with the correct year: Toward late ______, internal political issues restricted Albania and Macedonia from making attempts to further deve…
  83. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Serbia relations with the correct year: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed in ______ by the remaining Yugoslav republics Montenegro and Serbia.
  84. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Serbia relations with the correct year: Following the Republic of Macedonia's recognition of Kosovo's independence in ______, the ambassador of the Republic…
  85. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–Serbia relations with the correct year: The Serbian Orthodox Church did not recognize the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which declared autocephaly from the Se…
  86. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Liaison Office was upgraded to an embassy in February ______, and the first U.S.
  87. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–United States relations with the correct year: A key focus of U.S. assistance is helping North Macedonia implement the August ______ Framework Agreement; im…
  88. Complete the sentence about North Macedonia–United States relations with the correct year: In ______, the government of North Macedonia signed an executive agreement on Strategic Partnership and Mutua…
  89. Complete the sentence about Macedonia naming dispute with the correct year: In ______, the two countries formalised bilateral relations and committed to start negotiations on the naming issue, under t…
  90. Complete the sentence about Macedonia naming dispute with the correct year: The parties were represented by Ambassadors Vasko Naumovski and Adamantios Vassilakis with the mediation of Matthew Nimetz…
  91. Complete the sentence about 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with the correct year: With it, the Yugoslav Wars had reached Macedonia, which had achieved peaceful independence from Yugoslavia in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with the correct year: When it declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 8 September ______, Macedonia was the only ex-Yugoslav republic tha…
  93. Complete the sentence about 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with the correct year: According to the International Crisis Group, there was nearly 3% growth in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about 2001 insurgency in Macedonia with the correct year: In January ______, the government projected a budget surplus for the second year in a row.
  95. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: A NLA communiqué from 30 January ______ claimed responsibility for attacks on police stations in Skopje and Oslomej.
  96. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: On 22 January ______, the NLA attacked a police station in Tearce, killing 1 and injuring 3.
  97. Complete the sentence about Albanians in North Macedonia with the correct year: The ethnonym Albanos was found on a funeral inscription from ancient Stobi in ______ in present-day North Macedonia, nea…
  98. Complete the sentence about Albanians in North Macedonia with the correct year: In ______ the Serbian Tsar had donated a church and a number of serfs to the nobleman Ivanko around the region of Štip…
  99. Complete the sentence about Albanians in North Macedonia with the correct year: In a text by Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos there is mention of nomadic Albanians present in the vicinity of Ohrid at aro…
  100. Complete the sentence about Democratic Union for Integration with the correct year: In the ______ parliamentary election, the party formed a coalition with the Party for Democratic Prosperity and the…

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