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Austria-Hungary influenced the industrialization of the Balkans, including in this modern-day country, whose region of Styria was part of the Habsburg Crown Lands. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Balkan nation where Ivan Hribar headed modernization efforts after an 1895 earthquake struck in Carniola. This country has its capital at Ljubljana (“l’yoob-LYA-na”).
ANSWER: Slovenia [or Republic of Slovenia; or Republika Slovenija]
[10m] In the 1880s, Austria-Hungary used this city's tramways as testing grounds for trams to be used in Vienna. This city was the site of the Markale (“mar-KAH-le”) massacres during a 1992 to 1996 siege involving the JNA.
ANSWER: Sarajevo [accept Siege of Sarajevo; accept Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo]
[10h] While working in this Austro-Hungarian port, Robert Whitehead developed the self-propelled torpedo. The most important Hungarian shipping company, Adria, operated from this port.
ANSWER: Rijeka [or Fiume; or Reka; or Rika; or Sankt Veit am Flaum; accept Tharsatica; accept Vitopolis; accept Flumen; accept Free State of Fiume]
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Yale BA Brandeis Supreme1010020
Amherst AClark A1010020
Bowdoin BBoston University A0000
Bowdoin ABU B1010020
Yale ABrown A1010020
Tufts BCarabrandeis100010
Harvard ATufts A1010020
MIT AYale C1010020
Diamond BrandeisWilliams A1010020
Northeastern ABrandeises Brew100010