Serbian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Exit Festival with the correct year: The festival was founded in ______ in Novi Sad, Serbia as a student movement, fighting for democracy and freedom in Serbia and the Balkā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Mokra Gora with the correct year: Mokra Gora has become popular after ______ reconstruction of a narrow gauge railway called Å argan Eight which is unique in the world.
  3. Complete the sentence about Å argan Eight with the correct year: Plans were drafted in ______ and the original, Austrian route differed from the later finished one.
  4. Complete the sentence about Å argan Eight with the correct year: The lower bridge was demolished by the occupying German forces during their withdrawal in the late ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Å argan Eight with the correct year: In ______, after an explosion during the digging of the "Budim" tunnel, the ceiling collapsed killing the entire shift of workers.
  6. Complete the sentence about Felix Romuliana with the correct year: Systematic archaeological excavations conducted since ______ revealed that the site was, in fact, an Imperial palace.
  7. Complete the sentence about Felix Romuliana with the correct year: Vekoslav Popovic, Director of the Town Museum of Zajecar initiated the systematic archaeological research in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Studenica Monastery with the correct year: Studenica was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in ______, and is protected by the state.
  9. Complete the sentence about Studenica Monastery with the correct year: The first stage of works were completed by the spring of ______, when Stefan Nemanja abdicated and took monastic vows at the monaā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Studenica Monastery with the correct year: King Radoslav added a splendid narthex to the church in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Studenica Monastery with the correct year: Since the fall of the last of the medieval Serbian states in ______, the Turks often assaulted the monastery.
  12. Complete the sentence about Sopoćani with the correct year: Archbishop Sava II, who became the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in ______, is represented in the procession of archbishops in the areā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Sopoćani with the correct year: Finally, during one of the raids in ______ the Ottoman Turks set fire to the monastery and carried off the lead from the church roof.
  14. Complete the sentence about Žiča Monastery with the correct year: In ______, his father joined him, and together they founded the Chilandar, as the base of Serbian religion.
  15. Complete the sentence about Žiča Monastery with the correct year: Rastko's father died in Hilandar on 13 February ______; he was later canonised, as Saint Simeon.
  16. Complete the sentence about Žiča Monastery with the correct year: Rastko built a church and cell at Karyes, where he stayed for some years, becoming a Hieromonk, then an Archimandrite in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Gračanica Monastery with the correct year: The royal doors were commissioned in ______ by Metropolitan Dionisije, whose death is represented on a fresco in the narthex.
  18. Complete the sentence about Gračanica Monastery with the correct year: Thanks to Patriarch Pajsije, the church got its leaden roofing, and in ______ the large cross with crucifix was made on the iconoā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about Visoki Dečani with the correct year: In ______, the Archbishopric of Žiča was created in the medieval Kingdom of Serbia, and northern parts of the Eparchy of Prizren were rā€¦
  20. Complete the sentence about Visoki Dečani with the correct year: The construction of the monastery began during the reign of the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski, in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Patriarchal Monastery of Peć with the correct year: In ______, Arsenije I moved the Serbian Church seat from Žiča to Peć amid foreign invasion, to a more secure location, cā€¦
  22. Complete the sentence about Patriarchal Monastery of Peć with the correct year: At the time of Archbishop Joanikije II, around ______, the hitherto undecorated Church of St.
  23. Complete the sentence about KruŔedol Monastery with the correct year: In ______, it became the seat of the Metropolitanate of KruŔedol.
  24. Complete the sentence about KruŔedol Monastery with the correct year: In ______, it had the largest brotherhood of all monasteries on FruŔka Gora: 90 monks and 12 elders.
  25. Complete the sentence about KruÅ”edol Monastery with the correct year: In ______, during the Great Serbian Migration, the monks fled the monastery and moved to Szentendre taking valuables, relics and aā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Ravanica with the correct year: Ravanica was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in ______, and it is protected by the state.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ravanica with the correct year: In the great war after the second siege of Vienna of ______, a number of monks were killed by Ottoman soldiers.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ravanica with the correct year: In ______ the monks took with them the relics of canonized Prince Lazar while fleeing a Turkish onslaught.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ravanica with the correct year: Not until ______ when teacher Stefan - the sole remaining survivor - came back to Ravanica to find her looted and deserted, did monks beginā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about MileŔeva with the correct year: In ______, Vladislav moved the relics of his uncle Saint Sava from Trnovo in Bulgaria, where he died, to MileŔeva.
  31. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Ottomans set the monastery on fire, but it was soon restored.
  32. Complete the sentence about Smederevo Fortress with the correct year: Smederevo Fortress was declared a national Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Smederevo Fortress with the correct year: Around ______, he accepted the Hungarian vassalage from King Sigismund and established the new capital in Belgrade, which was cedeā€¦
  34. Complete the sentence about Smederevo Fortress with the correct year: After Stefan's death in ______, Đurađ Branković, Stefan's nephew and successor, had to return Belgrade to the Hungarians.
  35. Complete the sentence about NiÅ” Fortress with the correct year: Since ______, the fortress is the location of the NiÅ” Film Festival.
  36. Complete the sentence about Skull Tower with the correct year: In ______, Midhat Pasha, the last Ottoman governor of NiÅ”, ordered that Skull Tower be dismantled.
  37. Complete the sentence about Skull Tower with the correct year: The First Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule erupted in February ______, with Karađorđe as its leader.
  38. Complete the sentence about Gazimestan with the correct year: Commemorations of the Battle of Kosovo at Gazimestan became more prominent and significant after the founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Gazimestan with the correct year: The Gazimestan monument was designed by Aleksandar Deroko and built in ______ on the order of the Serbian communist government.
  40. Complete the sentence about Kosovo Polje with the correct year: In the town itself, approximately 142 Serb settler families were established in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about UŔće Tower with the correct year: The first tower, 98 meters tall, was the tallest building in Serbia and the Balkans for 15 years until the construction of the Genex Towerā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about UŔće Tower with the correct year: UŔće Tower was built in ______ as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.
  43. Complete the sentence about UŔće Tower with the correct year: In ______, the building became a target of Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked American Airlines Flight 293 with the intention of crashing the plaā€¦
  44. Complete the sentence about UŔće Tower with the correct year: MPC Holding, a holding company of Petar Matić, purchased the building in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Zemun with the correct year: Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Zemun with the correct year: After the Serbian Despotate fell to the Ottoman Empire in ______, Zemun became an important military outpost.
  47. Complete the sentence about Avala with the correct year: The stone pit was privately owned, but was confiscated by the state after World War II and stopped operating before ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Avala with the correct year: After the political change in Belgrade in late ______, the motion was dropped.
  49. Complete the sentence about Avala Tower with the correct year: The Avala Tower was destroyed on 29 April ______ by NATO bombardment.
  50. Complete the sentence about Sremska Kamenica with the correct year: Sremska Kamenica was first mentioned in historical documents in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Sremska Kamenica with the correct year: The civil administration was introduced in ______ and the town was included into Syrmia County, which was part of the Habsburg Kingdā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Palić with the correct year: In ______, the Tisa-Palić canal was opened so that the lake would remain as healthy as it was before in spite of development around the lake.
  53. Complete the sentence about Serbia with the correct year: During the breakup of Yugoslavia, it formed a union with Montenegro, which was dissolved in ______, subsequently restoring Serbia's independenā€¦
  54. Complete the sentence about Climate of Serbia with the correct year: The most disastrous were the floods in May ______, when 57 people died and a damage of over 1.5 billion euros was inflicted.
  55. Complete the sentence about Districts of Serbia with the correct year: Originally instituted by a ______ government decree, there are 29 administrative districts, with the City of Belgrade having simiā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Districts of Serbia with the correct year: Following the ______ Kosovo declaration of independence, the districts created by the UNMIK-Administration were adopted by Kosovoā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Districts of Serbia with the correct year: The ______ Law on Public Administration provided a legal definition of a district, under the term "administrative district".
  58. Complete the sentence about Districts of Serbia with the correct year: In ______, the Government enacted the Decree on Administrative Districts, which renamed the districts into administrative districā€¦
  59. Complete the sentence about Districts of Serbia with the correct year: The territorial organisation of Serbia is regulated by the Law on Territorial Organisation, adopted by the National Assembly on 2ā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Kosovo and Metohija with the correct year: Following the end of the Kosovo War ______, and as a result of NATO intervention, Serbia and the federal government no longer exeā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Kosovo and Metohija with the correct year: While Serbia has not recognised Kosovo's independence, in the ______ Brussels Agreement, it abolished all its institutions in theā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Kosovo and Metohija with the correct year: In ______ it was granted the same level of autonomy as Vojvodina, and accordingly its official name was changed to Autonomous Proā€¦
  63. Complete the sentence about Kosovo and Metohija with the correct year: In ______, the prefix "Socialist" was added and the term "Metohija" was dropped, changing the official name of the province to Soā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Carska Bara with the correct year: Until ______, the Old Begej was regular part of the Bega river, navigable, naturally flowing river.
  65. Complete the sentence about Deliblato Sands with the correct year: In order to immobilise the sand, Bachofer drafted a forestation plan, which was accepted in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Gornje Podunavlje with the correct year: A project "Partnership for the living Danube" was established in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Gornje Podunavlje with the correct year: Podunavlje is the second UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Serbia after Golija-Studenica, designated in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Ovčar-Kablar Gorge with the correct year: In ______, the area was declared a natural monument, and protected as the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge landscape of outstanding features.
  69. Complete the sentence about Ovčar-Kablar Gorge with the correct year: In ______, the West Morava was dammed in the gorge when two hydroelectric dams with artificial lakes were created.
  70. Complete the sentence about Ovčar-Kablar Gorge with the correct year: The next wave of the refugee priests came after the Turkish-Serbian Battle of Maritsa in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Sokobanja with the correct year: After being printed in the Politika newspaper on 7 July ______, the catchphrase became popular, surviving till today as the trademark of Soā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Sokobanja with the correct year: The first physician to the spa was appointed in ______ by the Serbian ruling prince MiloÅ” Obrenović, only 20 days after the town was liberaā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about NiŔka Banja with the correct year: Saint Proust noted once down in ______ that its bathroom in open was like the one in Budim.
  74. Complete the sentence about Topola with the correct year: The region was heavily settled after the Battle of Kosovo in ______, seen in the many medieval cemeteries in villages of Topola.
  75. Complete the sentence about Topola with the correct year: On 20 June ______ the city of Rudnik fell to the Ottomans, situated south of Topola.
  76. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the cornerstone was laid, and the Charter dedicated to St.
  77. Complete the sentence about Oplenac with the correct year: On May 1, ______, construction started following Jovanović's plan.
  78. Complete the sentence about Rtanj with the correct year: After World War II, the new Communist authorities demolished the chapel's dome with the cross in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Suva Planina with the correct year: In April ______ it was announced that Neanderthal remains were discovered, which marks the first discovery of such in Serbia.
  80. Complete the sentence about Kučaj with the correct year: In August ______ the waterfall was embellished with the color-changing decorative lights, becoming the first hydrology object in Serbia with suā€¦
  81. Complete the sentence about Cer with the correct year: Following the Yugoslav Wars, It was part of Serbia and Montenegro Until ______.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Belgrade? In 1521, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottomans and became the seat of the Sanjak of ______.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Novi Sad? Today, along with the Serbian capital city of ______, Novi Sad is an industrial and financial center important to the Serbian economy.
  84. Which place completes the sentence? The city lies about 144 km south of the Serbian capital, ______.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Smederevo? The modern city developed around Smederevo Fortress, constructed in the 15th century by Serbian despot Đurađ Branković after ______ was returned toā€¦
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Leskovac? Dubočica with centre in Leskovac was transformed into a nahiya, part of the sanjak of ______, of which it was the largest nahiya.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Požarevac? The National Museum in ______ and Požarevac has some 40,000 items found in Viminacium, of which over 700 are of gold and silver.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Prokuplje? Prokuplje is located between municipalities of Blace, KurÅ”umlija, Bojnik, Žitorađa, MeroÅ”ina, Aleksinac, and ______.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Zlatibor? The largest city in the region is ______ā€”located at the foothills of the mountainā€”while most of the area belongs to the municipality of Čajetina.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Zlatibor? The Zlatibor region is divided among two municipalities, Čajetina and ______, both located in the Zlatibor District.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Danube? Among the many cities on the river are four national capitals: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and ______.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Great Morava? From there to its confluence with the Danube northeast of the city of ______, the Velika Morava is 185 km long.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Great Morava? Before it meets the Danube, the Velika Morava splits, creating a 47 km long arm called the Jezava, which flows into the Danube separately, in thā€¦
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Vojvodina? Vojvodina has 1.7 million inhabitants, about a quarter of the country's population, and its administrative centre, ______, is the second largest ciā€¦
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Å umadija? The city of ______ is the largest city of the region and administrative center of the Å umadija District.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Bačka? Most of the area is located within the Vojvodina region in Serbia and ______, the administrative center of Vojvodina, lies on the border between Bačkaā€¦
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Sandžak? The Bosnian/Serbian term Sandžak derives from the Sanjak of ______, a former Ottoman administrative district founded in 1865.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Palić? In Ottoman inscription from 1580, it was recorded as the village of Palegyhaza in ______ nahiyah.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport? After World War II, the airport was used by the Yugoslav Air Force before it became the airfield of the Utva Aviation Industryā€¦
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Exit Festival? The festival was founded in 2000 in ______, Serbia as a student movement, fighting for democracy and freedom in Serbia and the Balkans.

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