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Which of the following countries was NOT part of former Yugoslavia?
North Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
Albania
Albania bordered Yugoslavia, but was not a part of it.
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What German state was located on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea?
Prussia
Saxony
Württemberg
Bavaria
The state of Prussia existed from 1525–1947.
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What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925-1961?
Volgograd
St. Petersburg
Yekaterinburg
Kiev
Before Stalin, the city was called Tsaritsyn since 1589.
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What is the modern day name of the city of Constantinople?
Istanbul
Kairo
Bucharest
Sarajevo
Constantinople was once the capital of the East Roman empire.
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Of which other nation was Finland an integral part up until 1809?
Sweden
Russia
Lithuania
Prussia
Sweden lost a third of its territory and a quarter of its population to Russia when Finland was conquered.
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What mediterranean city was capital in the republic of Ragusa?
Dubrovnik
Marseille
Venice
Izmir
Dubrovnik is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Which is a former European great power constituted of two monarchies and dissolved in 1918?
Austria-Hungary
Denmark-Norway
Poland-Lithuania
Spain-Portugal
The assassination of the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary sparked the First World War.
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What was the capital of West Germany?
Bonn
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Berlin
The German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn.
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What historical Prussian city on the Baltic Sea is now Kaliningrad?
Königsberg
Danzig
Köslin
Memel
Königsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of WW2.
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What wall marked the northern border of the Roman Empire in Britain.
Hadrian's
Diocletian's
Aurelian
Anastasian
Hadrian focused on defending the current borders, namely at the time Britain.
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In what central European historical region lies Prague?
Bohemia
Bavaria
Moravia
Silesia
Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.
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What city was known as Leningrad from 1924-1991?
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Volgograd
Nizhny Novgorod
From 1914–1924, the city was known as Petrograd.
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Which is another name for the Eastern Roman Empire?
Byzantium
Greece
Thrace
Turkey
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople.
