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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Serbia with the correct year: In ______ the Serbian Empire was established, spanning most of the Balkan peninsula.
  2. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: In January ______, Tihomir was recognized by the brothers who were given to rule other certain parts of Serbia and the Serbian-Byzantiā€¦
  3. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: In ______, the Hungarians counterattacked to push Byzantium out of the newly conquered areas.
  4. Complete the sentence about Stefan Nemanja with the correct year: The Hungarians were forced to seek peace through intermediaries to their detriment in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Nemanjić dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Stefan DuÅ”an was crowned Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks, and the Archbishopric of Serbia was elevated to a Patriarchate.
  6. Complete the sentence about Nemanjić dynasty with the correct year: Stefan DuÅ”an attempted to organize a Crusade with the Pope against the threatening Turks, but he died suddenly in December ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Stefan the First-Crowned with the correct year: In ______, the German Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa drowned in the river Calycadnus.
  8. Complete the sentence about Stefan the First-Crowned with the correct year: Around ______, Stefan expelled his wife Eudokia, a daughter of Alexios III Angelos, who found refuge with Vukan in Zeta.
  9. Complete the sentence about Stefan the First-Crowned with the correct year: Stefan lost the conflicts and had to flee the country in ______ to the ruler of Bulgaria Kaloyan.
  10. Complete the sentence about Stefan the First-Crowned with the correct year: Stefan uses this situation and in the counter-offensive, with the help of Prince Kaloyan, he returns to the throne in Ras inā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Stefan DuŔan with the correct year: In ______, Serbian King Stefan Milutin quarreled with his son, Stefan Dečanski.
  12. Complete the sentence about Stefan DuŔan with the correct year: Milutin became ill and died on 29 October ______, and Konstantin was crowned king.
  13. Complete the sentence about Stefan DuŔan with the correct year: Dečanski was crowned king on 6 January ______ by Nicodemus, and his son, Stefan DuŔan, was crowned "young king".
  14. Complete the sentence about Stefan DuŔan with the correct year: Since April ______ DuŔan appears in written sources as the "young king" and ruler in Zeta and Zahumlje.
  15. Complete the sentence about DuŔan's Code with the correct year: The Code was promulgated at a state council on 21 May ______ in Skopje, the capital of the Serbian Empire.
  16. Complete the sentence about Serbian Empire with the correct year: The Serbian Empire effectively ended with the death of UroÅ” V in ______ and the break-up of the Serbian state.
  17. Complete the sentence about Serbian Empire with the correct year: By ______, DuÅ”an the Mighty had expanded his state to cover half of the Balkans, more territory than either the Byzantine Empire or thā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroÅ” V with the correct year: In the spring of ______, Nikephoros Orsini landed a force on the coast of Thessaly and quickly overran it.
  19. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroÅ” V with the correct year: In ______, Simeon attacked the Skadar region, trying to capture the old Serbia region of Zeta, but was defeated.
  20. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroÅ” V with the correct year: Defeated in the north, Simeon again turned to south, retaking Epirus and Thessaly in ______, where he continued to rule with the titleā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroÅ” V with the correct year: By ______, the most powerful Serbian nobleman became UgljeÅ”a's brother VukaÅ”in Mrnjavčević who became co-ruler with Emperor UroÅ” and waā€¦
  22. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroŔ V with the correct year: By ______, as UroŔ was childless, VukaŔin designated his eldest son Prince Marko as heir to the throne, with the title of "young king".
  23. Complete the sentence about Stefan UroÅ” V with the correct year: Stefan UroÅ” V died childless in December ______, after much of the Serbian nobility had been destroyed by the Turks in the Battle of Maā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about Battle of Maritsa with the correct year: In ______, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and seized Gallipoli.
  25. Complete the sentence about Battle of Maritsa with the correct year: From there, they advanced through Thrace, capturing Demotika, Philippopolis, and finally Adrianople by ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Battle of Maritsa with the correct year: The Serbian Empire had entered a period of decline following the death of Emperor Stefan DuŔan in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Battle of Maritsa with the correct year: In the summer of ______, VukaÅ”in marched to the Principality of Zeta to support his relative Đurađ BalÅ”ić in a conflict with Nikolaā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Prince Lazar with the correct year: Lazar was killed at the Battle of Kosovo in June ______ while leading a Christian army assembled to confront the invading Ottoman Empireā€¦
  29. Complete the sentence about Prince Lazar with the correct year: Around ______ Stavilac Lazar Hrebeljanović married Princess Milica Nemanjić.
  30. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Tsar DuŔan died suddenly in ______ at the age of about 47, and was succeeded by his 20-year-old son Stefan UroŔ V.
  31. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obilić with the correct year: Although absent from contemporary records, he features prominently in later accounts of the ______ Battle of Kosovo as the assassin of Sā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obilić with the correct year: The assassination itself is first recorded by Deacon Ignjatije on 9 July ______, only 12 days after the battle.
  33. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obilić with the correct year: In ______, an anonymous Catalan author assigned Murad's death to a Hungarian knight.
  34. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obilić with the correct year: Another Italian account, Mignanelli's ______ work, asserted that it was Lazar who killed the Ottoman sultan.
  35. Complete the sentence about Serbian Despotate with the correct year: The last titular Despot of Serbia was Pavle Bakić, who fell in the Battle of Gorjani in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Serbian Despotate with the correct year: After Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović was killed in the Battle of Kosovo on June 28, ______, his young son Stefan Lazarević succeeded hiā€¦
  37. Complete the sentence about Serbian Despotate with the correct year: In ______, he married Caterina Gattilusio, daughter of Francesco II Gattilusio, ruler of the island of Lesbos, and his mother, Miliā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Stefan Lazarević with the correct year: Stefan led troops in several battles as an Ottoman vassal, until asserting independence after receiving the title of despot from theā€¦
  39. Complete the sentence about Stefan Lazarević with the correct year: During his reign, he had a conflict with his nephew, Đurađ Branković, which ended in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Stefan Lazarević with the correct year: In ______, he issued the Code of Mines, with a section on governing Novo Brdo ā€“ the largest mine in the Balkans at the time.
  41. Complete the sentence about Stefan Lazarević with the correct year: On 12 September ______, Stefan married Helena Gattilusio, the daughter of Francesco II of Lesbos.
  42. Complete the sentence about Đurađ Branković with the correct year: In ______, Branković was formally granted the Byzantine title of Despot by Emperor John VIII Palaiologos.
  43. Complete the sentence about Đurađ Branković with the correct year: When Đurađ succeeded Stefan, he was mature with great experience, aged 50 in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Đurađ Branković with the correct year: The combined army destroyed a large Ottoman detachment near Ravanica, for which effort the king, on 19 November ______, thanked especā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Serbia with the correct year: Various regions of medieval Serbia came under Ottoman rule already at the end of the 14th century, while the Serbian Despotate fell inā€¦
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Despotate was conquered again, this time finally.
  47. Complete the sentence about Great Serb Migration with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman Empire besieged Vienna, but was routed by an allied army that included the Holy Roman Empire led by the Hā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Great Serb Migration with the correct year: As a result of the lost rebellion and suppression, Serbian Christians and their church leaders, headed by Serbian Patriarch Arseā€¦
  49. Complete the sentence about First Serbian Uprising with the correct year: In ______, the Janissary commanders assassinated the Ottoman Pasha and took control of the Pashalik of Belgrade, ruling it indā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence about First Serbian Uprising with the correct year: In ______, the Janissaries feared that the Sultan would use the Serbs against them, which led to the assassination of many Serā€¦
  51. Complete the sentence about First Serbian Uprising with the correct year: The uprising soon resumed with the Second Serbian Uprising in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about First Serbian Uprising with the correct year: Serbia had been under Ottoman rule since the Battle of Kosovo in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Karađorđe with the correct year: In ______, the rogue governor of the Sanjak of Vidin, Osman Pazvantoğlu, invaded the Pashalik of Belgrade, and Karađorđe fought alongside tā€¦
  54. Complete the sentence about Karađorđe with the correct year: In early ______, following a massacre of Serb chieftains by renegade Ottoman janissaries known as Dahis, the Serbs of the Pashalik rebelledā€¦
  55. Complete the sentence about Karađorđe with the correct year: Karađorđe was unanimously elected to lead the uprising against the Dahis at an assembly of surviving chiefs in February ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Karađorđe with the correct year: Within six months, most of the Dahi leaders had been captured and executed by Karađorđe's forces, and by ______, the final remnants of Dahiā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Karađorđe with the correct year: By ______, the rebels had captured all the major towns in the Pashalik, including Belgrade and Smederevo, and expelled their Muslim inhabitā€¦
  58. Complete the sentence about Second Serbian Uprising with the correct year: De jure independence, however, was attained in ______, following the decisions of the Congress of Berlin.
  59. Complete the sentence about Second Serbian Uprising with the correct year: After the failure of the First Serbian Uprising ______, most commanders escaped to the Habsburg Monarchy, including Karađorđeā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Second Serbian Uprising with the correct year: In March ______, Serbs had several meetings and decided upon a new revolt.
  61. Complete the sentence about Second Serbian Uprising with the correct year: The meeting in Takovo proclaimed open revolt against the Ottoman Empire on 23 April ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obrenović with the correct year: MiloÅ” fought in the First Serbian uprising until its very end in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obrenović with the correct year: In April ______, Prince MiloÅ” organized and led the Second Serbian uprising.
  64. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obrenović with the correct year: After defeating the Turks, and Napoleon's defeat in Russia, the Turks agreed to the terms of the agreement from ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about MiloÅ” Obrenović with the correct year: After the killing of Karađorđe Petrović, in ______, Obrenović became the leader of the Serbs.
  66. Complete the sentence about Principality of Serbia with the correct year: A new constitution in ______ defined Serbia as an independent state.
  67. Complete the sentence about Principality of Serbia with the correct year: Serbia was further expanded to the southeast in ______, when its independence from the Ottoman Empire won full international rā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Principality of Serbia with the correct year: The Principality would last until ______ when it was raised to the level of the Kingdom of Serbia.
  69. Complete the sentence about Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia with the correct year: The youngest son of Karađorđe Petrović and his wife, Jelena Jovanović, was born in Topola on 11 October ____ā€¦
  70. Complete the sentence about Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia with the correct year: After the Sultan's decree acknowledging the title of Prince Mihailo Obrenović at the end of ______, the famiā€¦
  71. Complete the sentence about Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia with the correct year: As a follow-up of the national-political movements of ______, the pan-slavistic idea of a Yugoslav Monarchyā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia with the correct year: The Assembly voted upon his deposition on December 23, ______, and MiloÅ” Obrenović, who had previously beenā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Mihailo Obrenović III with the correct year: In ______, he became the first person in Serbia to be vaccinated against smallpox, which took away the lives of three of his siā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Milan I of Serbia with the correct year: In ______, the Principality was elevated to the status of a kingdom, and Milan became a king.
  75. Complete the sentence about Milan I of Serbia with the correct year: Milan abdicated the throne in ______ and left Serbia, after which his son, Alexander I, became the second King of Serbia.
  76. Complete the sentence about Milan I of Serbia with the correct year: After a few years, Milan returned to Serbia and in ______ his son appointed him the commander-in-chief of the Royal Serbian Army.
  77. Complete the sentence about Milan I of Serbia with the correct year: On 10 June ______, when Milan was only fourteen years of age, Prince Mihailo Obrenović III was assassinated.
  78. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Serbia with the correct year: The Kingdom of Serbia was a monarchy located in Southeastern Europe which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbiaā€¦
  79. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Serbia with the correct year: The Principality of Serbia, under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, de facto achieved full independence when the very last Ottoā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: Alexander was born on 14 August ______ to King Milan and Queen Natalie of Serbia.
  81. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: In ______, King Milan unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia.
  82. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: Alexander ordered the arrest of the regents on April 13, ______, proclaiming himself of age and dissolving national assembly.
  83. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: On May 21, he abolished his father's liberal constitution of ______ and restored the previous one.
  84. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: In the summer of ______, King Alexander suddenly announced his engagement to Draga MaÅ”in, a disreputable widow of an obscure enā€¦
  85. Complete the sentence about Alexander I of Serbia with the correct year: Alexander had met Draga in ______ when she was serving as a maid of honor to his mother.
  86. Complete the sentence about Peter I of Serbia with the correct year: On 1 December ______, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later.
  87. Complete the sentence about Peter I of Serbia with the correct year: Prince Alexander was forced to abdicate in ______, and Peter lived with his family in exile.
  88. Complete the sentence about Peter I of Serbia with the correct year: In ______, Prince Peter married Princess Ljubica, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro.
  89. Complete the sentence about Peter I of Serbia with the correct year: After his father died in ______, Peter became head of the Karađorđević dynasty.
  90. Complete the sentence about Peter I of Serbia with the correct year: After King Alexander I from the rival House of Obrenović was murdered during the May Coup of ______, Peter Karađorđević became theā€¦
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 24 June ______, the aging king proclaimed his son and heir Alexander as regent.
  92. Complete the sentence about Balkan League with the correct year: The outbreak of the Italo-Turkish War in ______ had further weakened the Ottomans and emboldened the Balkan states.
  93. Complete the sentence about Balkan League with the correct year: The League was victorious in the First Balkan War which broke out in October ______, where it successfully seized control of almost allā€¦
  94. Complete the sentence about Balkan League with the correct year: Instrumental to the policy was the emerging Panslavic movement, which henceforth formed the basis of Russian foreign policy up until thā€¦
  95. Complete the sentence about Balkan League with the correct year: Similarly, after saving Serbia from annihilation at the Ottoman' hands in ______, Russia forced the Ottomans to accept a full independeā€¦
  96. Complete the sentence about Balkan League with the correct year: Apart from the Russian pressure upon Bulgaria and Serbia, another issue that triggered the formation of the League was the Albanian Uprā€¦
  97. 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 oā€¦
  98. 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 Dodecanā€¦
  99. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Petersburg of 9 May ______, Bulgaria agreed to give up Silistra.
  100. Complete the sentence about Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand with the correct year: The assassins and key members of the clandestine network were tried in Sarajevo in October ______.

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