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Historical Atlas of Europe

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13 questions
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1

Which of the following countries was NOT part of former Yugoslavia?

North Macedonia

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slovenia

Hard  27% got this right

Albania bordered Yugoslavia, but was not a part of it.
2

What German state was located on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea?

Prussia

Bavaria

Saxony

Württemberg

47% got this right

The state of Prussia existed from 1525–1947.
3

What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925-1961?

Volgograd

Kiev

St. Petersburg

Yekaterinburg

Hard  32% got this right

Before Stalin, the city was called Tsaritsyn since 1589.
4

What is the modern day name of the city of Constantinople?

Istanbul

Bucharest

Kairo

Sarajevo

Easy  81% got this right

Constantinople was once the capital of the East Roman empire.
5

Of which other nation was Finland an integral part up until 1809?

Sweden

Lithuania

Prussia

Russia

50% got this right

Sweden lost a third of its territory and a quarter of its population to Russia when Finland was conquered.
6

What mediterranean city was capital in the republic of Ragusa?

Dubrovnik

Izmir

Marseille

Venice

42% got this right

Dubrovnik is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea.
7

Which is a former European great power constituted of two monarchies and dissolved in 1918?

Austria-Hungary

Denmark-Norway

Poland-Lithuania

Spain-Portugal

76% got this right

The assassination of the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary sparked the First World War.
8

What was the capital of West Germany?

Bonn

Berlin

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hard  26% got this right

The German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn.
9

What historical Prussian city on the Baltic Sea is now Kaliningrad?

Königsberg

Danzig

Köslin

Memel

61% got this right

Königsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of WW2.
10

What wall marked the northern border of the Roman Empire in Britain.

Hadrian's

Anastasian

Aurelian

Diocletian's

51% got this right

Hadrian focused on defending the current borders, namely at the time Britain.
11

In what central European historical region lies Prague?

Bohemia

Bavaria

Moravia

Silesia

46% got this right

Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.
12

What city was known as Leningrad from 1924-1991?

St. Petersburg

Moscow

Nizhny Novgorod

Volgograd

65% got this right

From 1914–1924, the city was known as Petrograd.
13

Which is another name for the Eastern Roman Empire?

Byzantium

Greece

Thrace

Turkey

72% got this right

The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople.