In a short story from this country, the wife of a government clerk works for years to replace the title piece of jewelry, which she later finds out is fake.

One of this country’s colonies, named Port Royal, was captured by the British in 1710, leading to the Great Expulsion of people from this country to regions farther south.

In case of war, this country planned to occupy its northern neighbor and advance to the Dyle River.

This country is home to Gavrinis Island, which contains neolithic stone slabs with spiral designs.

In 1995, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria targeted public transportation in this country.

This county was divided into g´en´eraliti´es based on how they paid taxes.

State control of capitalism in this country, a policy known as dirigism, led to the “Thirty Glorious Years” after World War II.

This country worked to decentralize its government with the 1982 Defferre Laws.

European power which colonized Senegal.

Country whose pragmatic policy was made by Cardinal Richelieu (pr. ree-shell-OO)?

In one work, Bill Gorton, Robert Cohn, and Jake Barnes travel to the northeast of this nation for a two-week long fishing trip.

A proposed marriage with a royal from this country was supported by Pope Gregory XV though preacher John Everard opposed the union.

Privateer Henry Jennings attacked salvagers of this country’s ships that had sunk in a hurricane in 1715.

"Bandits led by monks" were blamed for a defeat in this country at Bailén, which Chilean soldiers referenced at Maipú.

Hannibal's attack on Saguntum in this present-day country began the Second Punic War.

European country that colonized the islands after their discovery by Ferdinand Magellan.

European nation whose South American colonies he liberated.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was a group of Americans who came here to fight in its civil war, which George Orwell described in Homage to Catalonia.

In the nineteenth century, this country experienced the Liberal Triennium.

Colonized by what European power, after whose king Philip II it was named?

One band from this country helped popularize distortion in rock music when they sliced their amp with a razor to record the song "You Really Got Me." While performing in Des Moines, Iowa, one musician from this country bit off the head of a dead bat.

Darcus Howe was a civil rights leader in this country, where a race riot that inspired the Eddy Grant song “Electric Avenue” took place in Brixton.

That historian from this country verified that Hitler did not escape Berlin in the late days of the war and controversially claimed that the supposed Hitler Diaries were real.

Bands from this country such as The Kinks were part of a 1960s "Invasion" from this country to the United States. name this country, home to rock bands such as Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, and the Beatles.

A king of this country ordered that all children born on May Day be executed, but that didn’t kill his bastard son by Morgause.

What European country has been led by prime ministers like John Major, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown?

Country where the Langham Place group created a women’s periodical published by Emily Faithfull’s Victoria Press

A legend in this country concerns the vengeful spirit Black Vaughan, who was finally exorcised by a mother with a newborn baby.

Citing a desire to prevent the erosion of democracy, Boris Johnson came out in favour of this cause in February 2016.

The beast of Bodmin was a phantom cat that terrorized much of this country’s bumpkin inhabitants.

This country's succession war ended in 1738 following fracture on the death of Augustus the Strong.

One composer from this modern-day country used a "sacred minimalist" sound that is exemplified by his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs and the Copernican Symphony.

A strike in this country led to the 21 Demands of MKS, and in 1981, this country faced hunger demonstrations and a four-hour national warning strike.

Waltzes by a composer from this country make up pianist Dinu Lipatti’s most enduring recording.

In this modern-day country, the 21 Demands of MKS were hung on Ostrow Island in A August, 1980.

A Valois prince was elected king of this state but returned to France with much of its treasury.

A cavalry charge at the Battle of Krojanty started a myth that forces from this country used horses against German tanks.

Prussia, Austria, and Russia partitioned this country three times.

This country’s power was broken by a Swedish invasion in the Deluge.

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, was Prime Minister of this country during the early 2010s.

In a bout of insanity, one ruler of this country murdered various noblemen from the Sture family.

A series of attacks on bailiffs in this country led to a revolt known as the Dacke War.

Another leader from this country was a prime minister assassinated in 1986 whose main suspect was Christer Pettersson.

A ruler of this country was captured during the Kalabalik of Bender by the Ottoman Empire, where he was hiding in exile. This country faced Augustus the Strong's coalition of Saxony and Poland-Lithuania, which wanted to claim Livonia from Charles XII.

Another king of this country led the March Across the Belts, after which it received Scania from Denmark.

A U.N. Secretary General from this country died in a 1961 plane crash en route to peace talks over conflict in the Congo Crisis.

A queen of this country converted to Catholicism shortly after abdicating the throne at age 28.

Starting in 1965, this country carried out the Million Program which built one million publicly funded homes over 10 years.

In one battle in modern Ukraine, this country’s forces were defeated by Boris Sheremetev.Name this country which fought a Russian-led coalition in the Great Northern War. Despite early successes, its invasion force was crushed at the battle of Poltava.

During that intervention, one ruler of this country died at the battle of Lutzen.

The Time of Troubles plagued this country, many of whose rulers called themselves “tsars.”

The earliest known chariots were found at this country’s type site of Sintashta, which names a horse-domesticating culture associated with the Arya that later settled in India.

One immigrant from this country to the United States founded the electronics company Ampex, while another invented the first practical helicopter.

Name some things about a recent war, :This former Soviet republic's president is Dmitry Medvedev, and its prime minister is Vladmir Putin.

During a performance in this country of the ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian [[kah-chah-TOO-ree-ahn]], Leonid Yakobson [[YAH-kohb-sun]] abandoned the traditional pointe technique during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Ethnically Polish dancer Vaslav Nijinsky [[nih-JIN-skee]] helped popularize a ballet company named for this nation originally founded by Sergei Diaghilev [[dee-AH-geh-lef]].

A Defense Minister of this country said “it is hard to search for a black cat in a dark room, especially if it’s not there” about the presence of soldiers in a neighboring country.

The Navajo language has recently been shown to be distantly related to a group of languages spoken along the Yenisei River in what country?

The works of Viktor Hartmann inspired another composer from this country to write a suite whose final movement depicts an unbuilt celebratory gate.

In 2014, Barack Obama said it was a “regional power,” two years after promising he would have more “flexibility” with this country after his reelection.

The first monarch of this country, whose independence was recognized by Pope Alexander III, defeated his mother at the Battle of Saint Mamede and Ali ibn Yusuf at the Battle of Ourique.

The 1580s war for this country’s succession included the Battle of Ponta Delgada, a naval battle nearly 1,000 miles west of this country.

Some of this country's merchants were swept off their route to Ningbo by a storm, landing in one of the Osumi Islands.

A king of this country had a vision of a cross in the sky before winning the Battle of Ourique.

For much of its history, this country was led by rulers from the House of Aviz.

This country was granted everything east of an Atlantic meridian by Pope Alexander VI in the Treaty of Tordesillas (TOR-duh-SEE-yahs).

The Alvor Agreement ended another conflict between this nation and its former colony of Angola.

European country that introduced the Pink Map to connect its colonies of Angola and Mozambique.

In 1511, a force from this country led by Alfonso de Albuquerque captured the city of Malacca. Prior to 1975, this country controlled East Timor, and prior to 1961, it controlled the city of Goa.

The bull Manifestis Probatum recognized Afonso I as the first king of this country.

This state lost Dalmatia after the pretender Ladislaus [[lawd-EH-sloh]] of Naples ceded it to Venice. John Zápolya [[ZAH-pol-yah]] was crowned king of this country under the protection of the Ottoman Empire after one battle. The Military Frontier was established by the Habsburgs in this country, which was ruled during its height by Matthias Corvinus. Name this kingdom that united with Austria in 1867 to form the Dual Monarchy.

One ruler from this kingdom led the “Long campaign” and was captured following a defeat at the battle of Varna.

This country attempted to gain self-government with the April Laws, written by nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth [LIE-osh KO-shooth].

During a revolution in this country, only the boots of a statue of Stalin were left after protestors pulled it down.

János Kádár [“YAH-nosh KAH-darr”] implemented “goulash communism” in this country after a revolution led by Imre Nagy [“IHM-ray nahj”].

In this non-Romania country, an apocryphal vow against the clinking of beer mugs began after 13 rebel generals were executed at Arad.

Béla Kun started a short-lived Communist republic in this country, which fell apart after an invasion led by King Ferdinand.

A king of this country defended Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire in 1456.

In this country, the Nazi-backed Arrow Cross party overthrew Miklos Horthy, who had been selected as regent following a series of revolutions.

This country twice refused the rule of Charles IV, its last king, and instead was led through World War II by Admiral Miklós Horthy.

A series of revolutions in this modern-day country led to the election of the Frankfurt Parliament.

This government’s attempt to unify Protestantism was opposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Confessing Church.

A Hellenistic altar excavated from Turkey is now displayed in this country’s Pergamon Museum, which also includes a reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate.

One of this country's colonies saw the Battle of Waterberg, which led to the Herero and Namaqua genocide.

In this country, a coalition led by a tribe described as “lazy fools” was finally crushed at the Angrivarian Wall. :Name this modern-day country, where Arminius led three legions into an ambush in the Teutoburg Forest.

In response to revelations regarding NSA surveillance, this country’s leader said that “the Internet is uncharted territory for us all.” Former President of European Parliament Martin Schulz announced his intentions to run as the Social Democratic Candidate in October 2017 elections in this country.

One song of this country’s army is about a girl whose shares a name with a flower called “Erika”.

Another thinker from this country argued that a “Protestant work ethic” enabled the development of modern capitalism and suggested that the state held a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

In 2019, America’s Major League Soccer lifted a ban on imagery inspired by the Iron Front, an anti-fascist movement that developed in this country in the 1930s.

Its high command was led by Helmuth von Moltke, and it was accused of sending the Zimmerman Telegram, causing the United States to declare war on this country.

In order to gain the support of Napoleon III, this country’s first prime minister, the Count of Cavour, provoked a war with Austria.

In this country, members of the Propaganda Due [DOO-ay], a secret masonic lodge, formed a shadow government.

One woman from what is today this country was named Isabella, known as the "First Lady of the World," and persuaded Louis XII to not send troops against her home city.

An artist from this country created a hyper-realistic sculpture of a pope being struck by a meteorite titled The Ninth Hour.

A thinker from this country wrote about King Saladin who ponders which of the three Abrahamic religions is true.

Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped, murdered, and abandoned in Rome.

The Years of Lead took place in this European country once led by Benito Mussolini.

That politician here is the leader of the Five-Star Movement and is a former comedian.

The “Historic Compromise” was made between this country's Communist and Christian Democrat parties.

After his service carrying artillery shells in this country, the Syrian brown bear Wojtek [VOY-tek] lived out his life in Edinburgh Zoo.

British explorer Henry Hudson was sponsored by this foreign country for his third voyage, during which he sailed the Half-Moon.

A religious leader from this country led the Doleantie schism and founded the Anti- Revolutionary Party.

Country that ruled over the colony through its “United East India Company”

Low country in Northern Europe ruled by Queen Beatrix in the 20th century.

Operation Market Garden aimed to liberate this nation by capturing bridgeheads across the Rhine.

During World War II and the inter-war period, 90% of the world’s quinine was produced by colonies owned by this European country.

In this modern-day country, the Five Articles of Remonstrance were signed by followers of a man whose teachings were condemned at the Council of Dort, Jacobus Arminius.

This modern-day country was outraged by the Council of Blood being imposed as its ruler, as well as by the Tenth Penny tax.

This country was attacked by England and France during its Disaster Year, which resulted in the lynching of Cornelius and Jan de Witt.

A rhyming slogan coined in this country in 1672 described it as senseless, leaderless, and rudderless during its “year of disaster,” which culminated in the lynching of the De Witt brothers.

A leader of nationalist resistance in this country was nicknamed “The Big Fellow” and employed a hit squad nicknamed the “Twelve Apostles.” The Croke Park and Phoenix Park massacres occurred in this country, where British irregulars known as the “Black and Tans” were deployed to crush nationalist resistance.

During World War II, this country was governed by the Emergency Powers Act while maintaining official neutrality.

The remains of dome shaped huts have been found on this island at Mount Sandel.

The potential invasion of this country by Germany led the British high command to create Plan W. It’s not India, but World War II is known as “The Emergency” in this country and saw conflict with former paramilitaries.

A double murderer was apprehended in the home of this country’s attorney general in the GUBU scandal.

In this colony, a group called the Invincibles assassinated Frederick Cavendish in the Phoenix Park Murders.

Prisoners of war from this country who were shipped to the Caribbean are the progenitors of modern-day Redlegs.

In the 1630s, a group of friars compiled a comprehensive history of this region called the Annals of the Four Masters.

Eamon de Valera founded this nation’s largest political party, Fianna Fail. :Name this nation, with capital at Dublin. Its northern neighbor is still part of the United Kingdom.

The first president of this nation, Douglas Hyde, was elected thanks to the founder of the Fianna Fail party, the Taoiseach ["tee-shock"] Eamon de Valera.

Patrick Fermor, William Moss, and partisans from this country kidnapped Nazi general Heinrich Kreipe.

Home to the Minoans in Crete, name this country whose Classical monuments include the Parthenon.

In 2013, rapper Killah P was murdered in this country by a member of the Golden Dawn, which lost its last Parliamentary seat in 2019.

Country that entered into “Earthquake Diplomacy” with Turkey.

Benito Mussolini invaded Albania before failing in his 1940 invasion of this country, whose Metaxas Line fell to the Germans the next year.

This country’s ruler created the National Youth Organization, and his response to an invasion is celebrated as this country’s Ohi Day.

One leader of this country compared it to a “patient in a cast” and to himself as a “doctor.” This country’s government lost support after it failed to deter an invasion of an island nation led by Archbishop Makarios III.

The Indignant Citizens Movement protested a series of 2011 austerity measures in this country, where in 2012 the neo-nazi Golden Dawn entered parliament.

That revolt led to this country’s “Black “97” in which the Thirty Days” War was fought over control of an island whose largest city is Heraklion.

This country was the site of the 1909 Goudi coup, which forced its King George I to bring in a reformist prime minister.

A king of this country formed the International African Association and sent Henry Morton Stanley to explore land for him.

This country's independence revolt was triggered by a performance of the opera The Mute Girl of Portici (pr. por-TEE-chee).

The Ten Days’ Campaign was a failed attempt to put down this country’s 1830 independence revolution.

This country conducted a genocide of 10 million people according to an Adam Hochschild book on the “ghost” of a ruler of this country.

A plan by Talleyrand to partition this country was rejected in the 1830 London Conference, which acknowledged this nation’s independence.

As a result of World War I, this nation received the small continental gain of Eupen-Malmedy.

This country’s region of Wallonia was the first in continental Europe to industrialize.

A ruler of this country controlled a colony investigated by Roger Casement who revealed the atrocities of the Force Publique.

This country’s Dyle River formed the basis for Maurice Gamelin’s defensive plans, and its fortress of Eben-Emael was captured by paratroopers during Case Yellow.

In this country, journalist José Streel was executed for Nazi collaboration after Victor Matthys ordered the massacre of twenty civilians at Courcelles.

During World War II, the Nazi government exchanged thousands of pounds of gold for currency with this country, which did not give women the right to vote until 1971.

This country established a federal government after several of its Catholic regions formed the Sonderbund alliance during an 1847 Civil War.

In his sermon “Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods,” a theologian from this country defended people who violated the Lenten fast by eating sausages.

One legend in this country describes a man who threw himself on enemy pikes during the Battle of Sempach.

Charles the Bold of Burgundy was killed while fighting this country, which also defeated the Habsburgs in the Swabian War.

A federal constitution was created for this country, forcing cantons to give up some of their rights.

During World War II, this country's National Redoubt strategy was announced in a speech given on the symbolic Rutli field by its leader Henri Guisan.

This modern day country obtained de facto independence from the Holy Roman Empire after the Swabian War.

One politician from this country, Robert Grimm, attempted to negotiate peace between Germany and Russia, causing an affair that led to the resignation of this country’s councilor Arthur Hoffmann.

The Grimm–Hoffman affair nearly led to this nation entering World War I on the side of the Central Powers.

Its first king received the keys to the capital after the so-called “Monstrous Coalition” overthrew a man styled “Domnitor,” Alexander Cuza.

The far-right Legion of the Archangel Michael spawned the fascist Iron Guard in this country.

The Armistice of Focșani withdrew this nation from World War I, and the US Army Air Forces bombed this nation’s Ploiești oil refineries in Operation Tidal Wave.

Orphans in this country were benefited in 1990 when the wives of the Beatles organized the Nobody’s Child charity album.

In this nation, the Legionnaires’ Rebellion was led by Horia Sima.

While fighting the Ottomans, Michael the Brave unified the three principalities which would form this country, and centuries later in 1859, Alexandru Cuza united a "Danubian" pair of them.

This country’s 1938 constitution made it a one party state under the National Resistance Front.

This country's National Salvation Front took control after a revolution sparked by an uprising in Timisoara.

From 1930 to 1940, this country was ruled by King Carol II. :Name this country, whose Fascist Iron Guard supported its leader Ion Antonescu. During much of the Cold War, it was ruled by Nicolae Ceausescu.

This nation entered World War I on the Allied side but was forced to sign an armistice with the Central Powers after Russia left the war in 1917.

This country converted to Protestantism after the Count’s Feud, and it started the Scanian War with its northern neighbor.

A pirate from this country named Skipper Clement led a peasant rebellion during its Count’s Feud.

In a book focusing on resistance efforts in this country, Annemarie attempts to shelter her friend Ellen from capture; that book is Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars.

This country was forced to give up its holdings in Estonia in the Second Treaty of Bromsebro.

A peasant rebellion in this nation led by Skipper Clement was put down by the noble Johan Rantzau [[RAHNT-zow]] during the Count's Feud.

A leader of this country sparked the Telegram Crisis after not using a formal enough salutation while communicating with Adolf Hitler.

Christian X [the tenth] rode through the streets of Copenhagen during Nazi occupation.

Kingdom that sold the modern US Virgin Islands to the US in 1917 and colonized the Indian cities of Trankebar and Serampore.

Germany occupied this country in just 6 hours in Operation Weserubung [VAY-ser-OO-bung].

The Hanseatic League waged war against this nation, whose leader was Waldemar IV. Later on in history, this nation would lose Schleswig-Holstein under the rule of Christian IX.

This country’s sovereignty was threatened by the USSR during the Note Crisis.

An English clergyman named Henry was killed in this country during a 12th-century campaign led in this modern-day country by Eric the Lawgiver.

The Battles of Kollaa and Suomussalmi were fought in a war where this country defended the Mannerheim Line.

As this country gained independence, the White and the Red Guards fought a civil war.

This country established a monarchy with Frederick Charles of Hesse as King-elect, but he resigned after being appointed to the position.

A leader of this country, Karl-August Fagerholm, was forced to resign during the Night Frost Crisis and was then succeeded by a member of the Agrarian League.

This modern-day country was devastated by the Great Wrath, and this country was defended by the Mannerheim Line of fortifications.

Kurt Wallenius was imprisoned after leading an uprising in Mantsala by the Lapua Movement in this country, whose White Guard defeated the Red Guard during a civil war.

Less than a year after that war ended, aggression against this country resumed in the Continuation War.

Nikita Khrushchev declared that this country’s relations with the USSR had deteriorated to a “night frost” in 1958.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has been an outspoken advocate of this country’s ruling party, the AKP, or Justice and Development Party.

A Neolithic site in this modern-day country with many sculpted bulls' heads on the walls is called Çatal Höyük.

In this modern country, dozens of large, decapitated statue heads are scattered across the summit of Mount Nemrut.

The Dede [] is a spiritual leader of this country's Alevi faith.

One leader of this modern-day country stressed educating women alongside men in his “Kastamonu Speech.” That leader of this country also passed the Hat Law of 1925, which banned the fez in favor of Western-style headgear.

One sculpture from an ancient city in this modern-day country depicts a “seated woman” giving birth on a throne with feline armrests.

A region in this modern-day country contained the city of Hattusa, home to a Bronze Age civilization that mastered ironworking and was ruled by Muwatalli II.

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük [chah-tahl ho-yook], which is among the best preserved in the world, is located in this modern-day nation, near the city of Konya. The site is accessible from Ankara by car.

This country’s penal code includes a controversial Article 301 that has been used to crack down on dissidents who have discussed the Armenian Genocide orchestrated by this country.

The so-called coup by memorandum in this country brought about the downfall of its Justice Party, while a new constitution was proclaimed following a 1960 coup by General Gursel.

Over three million citizens of this country lost a combined 1.2 billion dollars after a series of pyramid schemes collapsed in 1997.

One leader of this country discredited China’s “three worlds” interpretation of communism in his book Imperialism and the Revolution.

The Assembly of Vlore granted independence to this country, which was formerly a vilayet.

This country, the only non-microstate in Europe that did not sign the Helsinki Accords, executed a priest for baptizing a child in 1971, four years after it declared itself the world’s first atheist state.

Venice assisted this modern country in fighting for its independence from the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.

This country's independence was announced by Ismail Qemali in the Vlore Proclamation.

This region was briefly ruled by the Angevin Charles I and first became an independent principality thanks to the archon Progon.

A prime minister of this country developed a Twenty Point Program after the June Revolution.

That leader of this country waged a lifelong war against the Ottomans and was known as the "Dragon of" this country.

Another leader of this nation fled after it was invaded by Italy in 1939.

One leader of an empire in this modern-day country, Krum the Fearsome, used the silver-lined skull of Nikephoros I as a drinking cup after winning the Battle of Pliska.

The first state of this name was established by Asparuh, while the second was founded by brothers Ivan and Peter Asen.

The last monarch of this country became the only European monarch to be later elected Prime Minister.

A writer from this country, Georgi Markov, was assassinated via a ricin pellet fired from an umbrella.

A pig farmer from this country led a rebellion against the Mongols and was named Ivaylo the Radish.

Early 20th century politics in this country were dominated by its Agrarian National Union.

The future communist leader of this country was tried in the Leipzig Trial for setting fire to the Reichstag.

The "Bloody Letter" was written by a revolutionary from this country declaring its independence.

A Prime Minister from this country was brutally murdered by members of the IMRO, who cut off the hand he used to sign the Treaty of Niš.

A poet from this country dedicated a poem to the American journalist Januarius MacGahan for his coverage of its atrocities like the Batak Massacre.

Symon Petliura led another state in this modern-day country, which was the site of an anti-Semitic nationalist movement led by Stepan Bandera during World War II.

In what is now this country, the anarchist "Free Territory" was established by Nestor Makhno (MOCK-noh).

In 2000, Oleksandr Moroz accused this country’s president of complicity in the death of Georgiy Gongadze in what became known as the Cassette Scandal.

This country’s president is known as the “Chocolate King” since he controls the chocolate manufacturing group Roshen.

In September 1941, Kurt Eberhard ordered the executions of over 30,000 Jews and well over 100,000 people total in this region’s capital city.

In this modern-day country, the Golden Horde was removed from “The Wild Fields” in the Battle of Blue Waters.

In this country, Leonid Kuchma became embroiled in “tapegate” after a recording surfaced of him ordering the arrest of a journalist.

Is the modern site of the former capital of the Kievan Rus?

In what is now this country, Nestor Makhno’s anarchist Black Army often used horse-drawn machine guns known as tachanka.

Joseph Stalin was largely responsible for the Holodomor, a famine that killed over seven million people in this modern-day country.

An emissary named Goldenshoes helped end a war on this island, which suffered from Murat Reis's Turkish Abductions, a series of slave raids by North African pirates.

During World War II, the United Kingdom invaded this modern day country as part of Operation Fork.

The Redstockings helped inspire a strike in this country in 1975, the Women’s Day Off.

This country experienced the “mist hardships” after the eruption of the Laki fissure.

The world’s first openly lesbian prime minister was elected in this country, which saw the Kitchenware Revolution after all three of its largest banks collapsed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

This country hosted an arms reduction summit that included the "double-zero" proposal and led to the signing of 1987's Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Secular and religious forces in this country clashed at the 1208 Battle of Vidines.

In this country, the Lögrétta legislature ruled during the Age of the Sturlungs, which ended with the signing of the Old Covenant.

The Old Covenant reduced the power of an assembly in this country whose participants gave speeches at the Law Rock.

According to legend, Thorgeir threw his pagan idols into a waterfall in this country.

During World War Two, a Nazi puppet state in this country was dominated by the Ustaše [[ooh-STAH-sheh]].

The second-largest city in this country was surveyed by Robert Adam in his studies of the ruins of Diocletian's Palace.

Tsar Samuel fought King Svetoslav Suronja in a 998 siege in this modern country, where one city named a 1358 treaty that allowed the rise of Ragusa.

The British refused the surrender of thousands of soldiers fleeing from this country, resulting in their massacre in the Bleiburg Repatriation.

It was led during its independence war by Franjo Tudman, also its first president.

This modern-day country was once the base of the Uskok pirates.

Operation Storm was carried out under its first president, Franjo Tudjman [fran-yo tudge-man].

Those families, the Frankopans and Zrinskis, attempted to justify the uprising under the Pacta Conventa with Coloman the Book-Lover.

During the Revolutions of 1848, Josip Jelacic served as this nation’s ruler, called a Ban, while its Sabor insisted on separation from Hungary.

An ancient culture discovered in this country produced a clay dove sculpture that is found on the back of its 20 kuna note; that culture, the Vucedol inhabited areas like Vukovar.

Prior to World War II, this country was annexed by Germany in the Anschluss.

This country's capital was called "big-headed" and nicknamed "Red" under its first Social Democratic mayor in 1918.

This country ceded Silesia to Prussia after a 1740’s war with Frederick the Great.

A president of this country, Wilhelm Miklas, was forced to appoint Arthur Seyss-Inquart as its chancellor.

This country was the site of an empire founded after the Treaty of Pressburg by Francis I. This country began a series of conservative crackdowns after the Karlsbad Decrees were issued by Klemens von Metternich.

This country was rocked in 1985 by revelations that a former United Nations Secretary-General, who was running for president of this country, had been a member of the Nazi SS.

In an opera set in this country, the namesake courtesan murders Dr. Ludwig Schon, flees to London, and is murdered herself by Jack the Ripper.

In 2000 several European Union countries imposed sanctions on this country after the ÖVP entered a coalition government with Jörg Haider's political party.

The First Republic of this nation collapsed during a civil war where the Engelbert Dollfuss-led fascists outlawed the Social Democrats.

Kurt Waldheim was elected President despite lying about his service in the Wehrmacht, which he joined after the Nazis annexed this country.

After the end of World War I, numerous Ottoman officials were exiled to this modern day country.

Sirocco winds usually hit this island nation from the southeast. Its namesake Semitic language is written with the Roman alphabet.

The first count of this country was the so-called “New Neptune,” Margaritus of Brindisi.

This island's Fort Ricasoli was the site of the British army's Froberg Mutiny, and this island was defended by Forts Saint Michael and Saint Elmo after Gozo and Tripoli were conquered.

Charles I received a falcon in exchange for this island from an organization that had been evicted from Rhodes and Cyprus; they stayed on this island until the reign of Napoleon.

It's not Rhodes, but King George VI [[the sixth]] awarded this entire island the George Cross after it resisted Axis bombing campaigns.

One organization on this island was headed by Mathurin Romegas who led papal galleys at the Battle of Lepanto.

This island was home to the fortified Three Cities, and it was fed by the Floriana, Santa Margherita, and Cottonera Lines.

British island with capital Valetta where submarines and airplanes targeted enemy shipping in the Mediterranean.

This island's Great Wall was similar in purpose to its Falca Lines.

This modern-day country was once ruled by renegade Janissaries known as dahije, who massacred this country’s elite, known as knez, in 1804.

A leader of a secret society in this country codenamed “Apis” orchestrated the murder of its king Alexander and its queen Draga in 1903.

The body of this nation's King Alexander I was thrown off a balcony of the "Old Palace" during its May Coup, which replaced him with Peter I. Alongside Romania and Greece, this nation seized territory from Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.

This country’s forces included Arkan’s Tigers and the Scorpions, who were later charged for war crimes after aiding Ratko Mladic in carrying out the Srebrenica [sre-breh-neetza] Massacre.

An empire based in this country exploited a civil war between John V [the fifth] Palailogos and Anna of Savoy to conquer Macedonia.

Forces from a kingdom in this modern-day country defeated Michael III of Bulgaria to secure Epirus at the Battle of Velbazhd.

Kosovo’s independence from this state has not yet formally been recognized by much of the world.

One of its leaders ordered the assassination of Ivan Stambolic and was targeted by a 1999 NATO bombing.

An attack on this country’s broadcasting company, the RTS, took place during the Bulldozer Revolution in 2000.

Together with Montenegro, this opponent of Bosnia formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Another Grand Duke of this nation signed the Union of Krewo to marry Jadwiga of Anjou.

This country was the original home of the Geminid dynasty and defeated the Mongols at the Battle of the Blue Waters.

The Pale of Settlement on Russia’s western frontier included all of this modern Baltic state, where over 100,000 people were killed by the Nazis in Ponary Forest near Vilnius.

A reform movement known as Sajudis [[sah-YOO-dis]] advocated for the independence of this country ruled by the unicameral Seimas [[SAY-mas]] parliament.

A mayor in this nation, Arturas Zuokas [[zoo-OH-kuss]], fought illegal parking in his city by crushing a car with an armored vehicle in 2011.

Duke Daumantas assassinated the first Grand Duke of this country, who possibly renounced Christianity and approved the construction of the Klaipeda Castle.

This nation's language was preserved through the 19th-century "Book Smuggling" movement after Tsarist Russia banned its use.

Jonas Zemaitis was a freedom fighter in this country who relied on the code-name Vytautas [[vee-TOE-tas]].

Had 7 border guards killed in a Soviet assault near Vilnius?

A student from this country named Romas Kalanta set himself on fire in 1972.

In this nation, the 2007 April Unrest occurred due to the relocation of a memorial to fallen Red Army soldiers, resulting in this nation's Moscow embassy being besieged for a week.

In this country, students wore yellow T-shirts to protest increased phosphorite mining in Lääne-Viru [LAH-neh VEE-roo] County.

northernmost of the Baltic states and less populous than Latvia and Lithuania?

Baltic state which dropped its kroon currency for the Euro in 2011.

Soviet housing may have been bland, but Soviet war memorials were often gaudy. Answer these questions about attempts to deal with them in the post-communist era .Russian residents of this country rioted in 2007 after its government relocated a Soviet war memorial from downtown Tallinn to a remote military cemetery.

Answer the following about the Baltic states during their brief independence between the world wars, FTPE. Frequently led by Konstantin Päts, this country endured an abortive 1924 communist putsch, but moved right with the rise of the Kaitseliit, which nonetheless fought against the proto-fascist Freedom Fighters.

This country’s capital is home to Iceland Square, honoring the fact that Iceland was the first country to recognize its independence. :Name this country, whose capital was the northern end of a massive human chain in 1989. A quarter of its population gathered at a Pop Music Festival in Tartu, kicking off the Singing Revolution.

On May 1, citizens celebrated its entrance into the European Union by launching a campaign to plant one million trees. For 15 points, name this country, led by President Arnold Ruutel and prime minister Juhan Parts, which speaks a Finnish dialect.

Trip Advisor states that Toompea Hill in the Old Town presents a must-see vista of this country’s capital of Talinn. :Finland lies across a namesake gulf from what small country north of Latvia?

Until this country became independent, the name of its capital was Revel. :Name this nation where the interwar Vaps Movement destabilized the government of Konstantin Pats, and where intellectual life was and is centered on the University of Tartu.

The city of Prizren in this country was made an imperial capital by Dušan the Mighty and later saw a league created there opposing the Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin.

A 1389 eponymous battle in what is now this country resulted in the annihilation of the army commanded by Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic [[reh-bel-YON-oh-vitch]].

In January 2017, this state prevented a passenger train painted in red, blue, and white from reaching the town of Mitrovica [mee-troh-veet-zah].

Durad Brankovic prevented Skanderbeg’s army from participating in a battle at this location, which was fought by Janos [YAHN-oash] Hunyadi after his previous defeat at Varna.

The Kachak movement in this province was suppressed following the death of Azem Galica. In 1981, student protests in this province led to the ouster of Mahmut Bakalli.

Former Yugoslavian country, unrecognized by Serbia, whose 1999 bombing led Tom Campbell to sue Bill Clinton.

A prime minister of this country named Hashim Thaçi [[THAH-chee]] worked to normalize relations with its northern neighbor in the Brussels Agreement.

This country’s second eponymous battle, in 1448, resulted in the expulsion of the Ottoman Albanian forces by the Srpska [] despotovina.

This country’s KLA was labeled a terrorist group by Slobodan Milošević [[mee-LOH-seh-vich]].

Donald Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell pressured this country’s LDK Party to leave its ruling coalition.