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Exploring Eastern Europe: A Quiz on Geography and History

Test your knowledge of Eastern Europe with this engaging quiz covering geography, history, and cultural insights.

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1 The ________[21] describes the following countries as located in:

2 What are people from Turkey known as?

3 The population density of Azerbaijan: How many people are there per square mile?

4 This usually refers to Central Europe and the ________ which have significantly different political, religious, cultural, and economic histories from their eastern neighbors.

5 What type of government does Ukraine have?

6 The fall of the ________ brought the end of the East-West division in Europe.

7 Most South-eastern European states did not belong to the ________ (save Bulgaria, Romania, and for a short time, Albania) although some of them were represented in the Cominform.

8 Many countries of this region joined the European Union, namely the ________, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania.

9 FRY was later renamed to ________ and, in 2006, it broke up into these two countries.

10 Under pressure from Stalin these nations rejected to receive funds from the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones.
  • the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe.
  • the annual Gorolski ÅšwiÄ™to is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe.
  • the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe.
  • the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24, 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893.
  • the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe.
  • despite much preparation by Prussia, ToruÅ„ Fortress, one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe, did not play a significant role in World War I.
  • Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica".
  • Dmitry Milyutin, the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia, was responsible for introducing the general levy system into Eastern Europe.
  • government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe.
  • The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences.
  • 3–5.5 million OST-Arbeiters, slave laborers from Eastern Europe, worked in Nazi Germany during WWII.
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