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Exploring Central Europe: A Quiz on History and Geography

Test your knowledge of Central Europe's history, geography, and cultural dynamics with this engaging quiz. Explore the region's past and its significance in European history.

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1 Central Europe is the region lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and ________.

2 [21] The pagans of Central Europe were converted to Roman Catholicism while in Southeastern and ________ they were brought in the fold of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

3 Central and ________ according to the United Nations

4 The Pannonian Plain extends into the following countries: ________, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

5 In this view ________ and Moravia, with its dual Western Slavic and Germanic heritage, combined with the historic element of the "Sudetenland", is a core region illustrating the problems and features of the entire Central European region.

6 [37] The concept failed after the German defeat in the ________ and the dissolution of Austria–Hungary.

7 as a mode of self-perception, despite the debated nature of the concept Central Europeans generally agree on which peoples are to be excluded from this club: for example Serbs, ________, Romanians and Russians.

8 [22] ________ and Poland, small and medium-size states today, were empires during their early histories.

9 [53] This area mostly corresponds to the borders of the former ________.

10 Before WWI, it embraced mainly German states (Germany, ________), non-German territories being an area of intended German penetration and domination - German leadership position was to be the natural result of economic dominance.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe.
  • the Church of St. Elisabeth in Marburg was one of the earliest purely Gothic structures in Central Europe and served as the model for the Cologne Cathedral.
  • the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the World Heritage List as "one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of Central European Baroque artistic expression".
  • the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-shaped pottery (pictured).
  • despite much preparation by Prussia, Toruń Fortress, one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe, did not play a significant role in World War I.
  • Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe.
  • U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth.
  • Lake Balaton (pictured), a popular tourist attraction in Hungary, is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe.
  • Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň, Czech Republic.
  • Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe.
  • 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history.
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