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  1. Complete the sentence about Belgrade with the correct year: Belgrade served as capital of the Serbian Despotate during the reign of Stefan Lazarević, and then his successor Đurađ Branković returned it…
  2. Complete the sentence about Belgrade with the correct year: Noon bells in support of the Hungarian army against the Ottoman Empire during the siege in ______ have remained a widespread church traditio…
  3. Complete the sentence about Belgrade with the correct year: In ______, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottomans and became the seat of the Sanjak of Smederevo.
  4. Complete the sentence about Belgrade with the correct year: Following the Serbian Revolution, Belgrade was once again named the capital of Serbia in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Novi Sad with the correct year: Novi Sad was founded in ______, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin Fortress, a strategic Habsburg m…
  6. Complete the sentence about Novi Sad with the correct year: The city was heavily devastated in the ______ Revolution, but was subsequently rebuilt and restored.
  7. Complete the sentence about Kragujevac with the correct year: Kragujevac was the first capital of modern Serbia and the first constitution in the Balkans, the Sretenje Constitution, was proclaimed in…
  8. Complete the sentence about Subotica with the correct year: The earliest known written name of the city was Zabotka or Zabatka, which dates from ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Zrenjanin with the correct year: The old name for Zrenjanin is Veliki Bečkerek or Nagybecskerek as it was known under Austria-Hungary up until ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Zrenjanin with the correct year: The only exception was the discovery of a mammoth's head and other bones found on the banks of Tisa River near Novi Bečej in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The town was granted to Stefan Lazarević at the end of the ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Pančevo with the correct year: HIP factory is located in Pančevo as well as UTVA which was heavily damaged during the bombing of Yugoslavia in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Kraljevo with the correct year: After ______, a border between Austria and Turkey was established along right bank of river Morava.
  14. Complete the sentence about Kraljevo with the correct year: After the Second Serbian uprising, Karanovac was liberated in ______ under the rule of Prince Miloš Obrenović.
  15. Complete the sentence about Smederevo with the correct year: The settlement is mentioned in a charter of the Byzantine emperor Basil II from ______, in connection with the ecclesiastical organisation…
  16. Complete the sentence about Leskovac with the correct year: After German occupation in World War II, it was heavily bombed by the Allies in ______, which left much of the town destroyed.
  17. Complete the sentence about Leskovac with the correct year: In ______, the town burnt along with Skopje, likely as a result of the Uprising in Banat.
  18. Complete the sentence about Valjevo with the correct year: In ______, the local Serb population had rebelled against the Ottoman lords and liberated a large part of Serbia.
  19. Complete the sentence about Valjevo with the correct year: One of the captured partisan leaders Stjepan Filipović was executed by the Nazis in Valjevo in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Valjevo with the correct year: In ______, Valjevo was repeatedly bombed during the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia.
  21. Complete the sentence about Kruševac with the correct year: Kruševac was founded in ______, as a fortified town in the possession of Lord Lazar Hrebeljanović.
  22. Complete the sentence about Kruševac with the correct year: The little that remains of Lazar's city is the Kruševac Fortress, which was declared a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in ______…
  23. Complete the sentence about Kruševac with the correct year: A large monument dedicated to Serbs fallen at the Battle of Kosovo was sculpted by Đorđe Jovanović and unveiled by King Petar I Karađorđević…
  24. Complete the sentence about Vranje with the correct year: The second mention is from ______, when Vranje was temporarily taken by Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja from the Byzantines.
  25. Complete the sentence about Šabac with the correct year: The name Šabac was first mentioned in Ragusan documents dating to ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Šabac with the correct year: The settlement was part of the Serbian Despotate until it fell to the Ottoman Empire in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Šabac with the correct year: The first period of Habsburg rule began in ______, when Šabac was incorporated into the Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia.
  28. Complete the sentence about Šabac with the correct year: A second period of Habsburg control of the area followed starting in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Sombor with the correct year: From 12 September ______, the city was under Habsburg administration, and was included into the Habsburg Military Frontier.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sombor with the correct year: Ottomans attempted to recapture it during the Battle of Zenta on 11 September ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Sombor with the correct year: In ______, Sombor was excluded from the Military Frontier and was included into Bacsensis County.
  32. Complete the sentence about Sombor with the correct year: In ______, Sombor gained royal free city status and acquired 11 additional areas on which farm settlements were founded over time.
  33. Complete the sentence about Zaječar with the correct year: The oldest preserved rendering of Zaječar listed in an Ottoman defter dates from ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Kikinda with the correct year: The name of the town first appears on a map of ______ as Gross Kikinda, indicating an uninhabited area or a wasteland and not a settlement.
  35. Complete the sentence about Sremska Mitrovica with the correct year: Beginning in ______ AD the name changed from "Civitas Sancti Demetrii" to "Dmitrovica", "Mitrovica", and finally to the present for…
  36. Complete the sentence about Jagodina with the correct year: The town was first mentioned in ______ as "Jagodna", derived from the Serbian word for 'strawberry' - Jagoda.
  37. Complete the sentence about Jagodina with the correct year: In ______ Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja liberated the areas of Belica, Levač and Lepenica from the rule of Byzantine Empire.
  38. Complete the sentence about Vršac with the correct year: According to Serbian historians, medieval Vršac was founded and inhabited by Serbs in ______, although it was under administration of the Kingd…
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The name of the town appears for the first time in ______ in the form Podvršan.
  40. Complete the sentence about Prokuplje with the correct year: After Serbia's victory over the Ottomans, Prokuplje was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Loznica with the correct year: In ______ the Serbs managed to drive the Ottomans across the river Drina, at which time the Ottomans reoccupied Loznica.
  42. Complete the sentence about Sremski Karlovci with the correct year: The town was first mentioned in historical documents in ______ with the name Karom.
  43. Complete the sentence about Sremski Karlovci with the correct year: Until ______, Karom was a possession of Hungarian noble families, of whom the most well known were Báthory and Morović.
  44. Complete the sentence about Sremski Karlovci with the correct year: In ______, Ottoman military commander Bali-beg conquered Karom under the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Europe.
  45. Complete the sentence about Kopaonik with the correct year: In ______ despot Stefan Lazarević granted the Law on mines which mentions the mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead and zinc in the area…
  46. Complete the sentence about Tara with the correct year: Since ______, the total measurement of the wood mass on Tara has been measured every 10 years.
  47. Complete the sentence about Đerdap with the correct year: As the original turbines' 30 years lifespan came to an end, in ______ the Romanian half of the dam started a program of modernization.
  48. Complete the sentence about Đerdap with the correct year: By ______ the program was completed and the Romanian half of the dam's operations were back to full capacity.
  49. Complete the sentence about Iron Gates with the correct year: The construction of the joint Romanian-Yugoslavian mega project commenced in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Djerdap National Park with the correct year: Viewpoint Greben was named by Jovan Žujović as the "most beautiful hill in the Balkans" at the ______ Geology congress in Budap…
  51. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The Middle Mongolian name for the Danube was transliterated as Tho-na in ______ by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat.
  52. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: In ______, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War.
  54. 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.
  55. Complete the sentence about West Morava with the correct year: When melioration program began in ______, it was projected that it will become navigable from Kruševac to Čačak.
  56. Complete the sentence about Drina with the correct year: The most disastrous flood occurred in ______, which destroyed the town of Ljubovija.
  57. Complete the sentence about Tisza with the correct year: In September ______, colonies of magnificent bryozoans were discovered in the river.
  58. Complete the sentence about Tisza with the correct year: In early ______, there was a sequence of serious pollution incidents originating from accidental industrial discharges in Romania.
  59. Complete the sentence about Šumadija with the correct year: For example, the parents of activist Ilija Milosavljević-Kolarac fled preko with the rest of the peasants in ______ to hide from the Ottoman…
  60. Complete the sentence about Kosovo with the correct year: The Ottoman Empire fully conquered Kosovo after the Second Battle of Kosovo, ruling for nearly five centuries until ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Banat with the correct year: The word Banat without any other qualification typically refers to the historical Banate of Temeswar, which acquired this title after the _____…
  62. Complete the sentence about Sandžak with the correct year: In ______, it was divided between the Kingdom of Montenegro and the Kingdom of Serbia.
  63. Complete the sentence about Sandžak with the correct year: The Serbian Despotate was invaded by the Ottoman Empire in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Lake Palić with the correct year: In Ottoman inscription from ______, it was recorded as the village of Palegyhaza in Subotica nahiyah.
  65. Complete the sentence about Lake Vlasina with the correct year: During the extremely low water level, it was reported in August ______ that the island was partially stranded on dry ground.
  66. Complete the sentence about Đavolja varoš with the correct year: The unusually pungent spring waters were examined for the first time in ______ by Aleksandar Zega, founder of the Serbian Chemical Soci…
  67. Complete the sentence about Resava Cave with the correct year: After being explored for 10 years, the cave was officially opened for visitors on 22 April ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Resava Cave with the correct year: Since ______, Resava Cave is member of ISCA, International Show Caves Association.
  69. Complete the sentence about Resava Cave with the correct year: In ______ it became the first hydrological monument with the decorative lights in Serbia.
  70. Complete the sentence about Lazar's Canyon with the correct year: Legend has it that after the battle of Marica in ______, the cavalry of Lazar of Serbia came to this area, and stayed in the canyon fo…
  71. Complete the sentence about Uvac with the correct year: The river is famous for its gorge, Kanjon Uvca, the thriving colony of reintroduced griffon vultures and the Uvac Special Nature Reserve, protec…
  72. Complete the sentence about Belgrade Fortress with the correct year: The fortress was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in ______, and is protected by the Republic of Serbia.
  73. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: Ruling prince Miloš Obrenović accepted the ______ beratlı, by which the Ottoman sultan confirmed his second accession to the throne.
  74. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: When the Ottomans fully withdrew from Serbia in ______, the Turkish pasha handed over the keys to the city to the ruling prince Mihajlo Ob…
  75. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: The first works on arranging the town field Kalemegdan started in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: The idea of turning the area into the park came from Belgrade's first trained urbanist, Emilijan Josimović, who in ______ basically constr…
  77. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: First phase of the forestation lasted until ______ and included planting of the trees beneath the fortress' ramparts and in the Upper Town…
  78. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: The arranging of the main Sava alley, above the river, began in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Kalemegdan with the correct year: The very first recorded circus in Belgrade settled here in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Temple of Saint Sava with the correct year: In ______, Serbs rose up against Ottoman rule in Banat, during the Long Turkish War which was fought at the Austrian-Ottoman bor…
  81. Complete the sentence about Temple of Saint Sava with the correct year: As a form of retaliation against the rebels, the Ottomans publicly burned the relics on a pyre on 27 April ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Temple of Saint Sava with the correct year: By the ______ decree of King Alexander I, the planned church was declared a "national edifice".
  83. Complete the sentence about Saint Sava with the correct year: Rastko showed himself serious and ascetic; as the youngest son, he was made Prince of Hum at an early age, in c. ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Saint Sava with the correct year: After two years, in autumn ______ or shortly afterwards, Rastko left Hum for Mount Athos.
  85. Complete the sentence about Saint Sava with the correct year: Stefan Nemanja took his son's advice – he summoned an assembly at Studenica and abdicated on 25 March ______, giving the throne to his mid…
  86. Complete the sentence about Saint Sava with the correct year: Nemanja took the monastic name Simeon and stayed in Studenica until leaving for Mount Athos in autumn ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Republic Square, Belgrade with the correct year: During the digging of the foundations for the Monument to Prince Michael in ______, tombs from different periods of Roman r…
  88. Complete the sentence about Republic Square, Belgrade with the correct year: The entire square area belongs to the Archaeological Site of Singidunum, which was declared a protected zone on 30 June ___…
  89. Complete the sentence about Knez Mihailova Street with the correct year: One kilometer long Knez Mihailova Street was protected in ______ as the spatial cultural-historical unit, the first cultural mo…
  90. Complete the sentence about Knez Mihailova Street with the correct year: In ______ it was elevated to the Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance, and as such is protected by the Republi…
  91. Complete the sentence about Skadarlija with the correct year: Since ______, Skadarlija has been protected by law as a spatial cultural-historical unit.
  92. Complete the sentence about Skadarlija with the correct year: The proper history of Skadarlija began in ______ with the settlement of Gypsies in the abandoned trenches in front of the ramparts.
  93. Complete the sentence about Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport with the correct year: In ______, the Banjica airfield was the base for the Serbian Air Force squadron and the Balloon Company.
  94. Complete the sentence about Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport with the correct year: In ______ another airfield was inaugurated in Belgrade, in the lower city of the Kalemegdan Fortress at the location of…
  95. Complete the sentence about Sava Centar with the correct year: In April ______, the building was declared a cultural monument.
  96. Complete the sentence about Sava Centar with the correct year: Work on the first stage had to be rushed due to the scheduled OSCE conference, planned for 15 June ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Petrovaradin Fortress with the correct year: The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on 18 October ______ by Charles Eugène de Croÿ.
  98. Complete the sentence about Petrovaradin Fortress with the correct year: In ______ Petrovaradin Fortress was added to Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance list of the Republic of Serb…
  99. Complete the sentence about Petrovaradin Fortress with the correct year: The turning point in the history of the area came in ______ AD when King Béla IV of Hungary brought a group of the Order of Cis…
  100. Complete the sentence about Exit Festival with the correct year: Exit was an annual music festival held in Serbia since ______.

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