European History by Letter - K

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Queen Victoria was born in this royal palace in West London

1389 battlefield important in Serbian history

Most influential “enlightenment” philosopher of continental Europe (Immanuel)

Deficit spending in crisis is a key issue in his economic theory (John Maynard)

Military order dissolved in 1307, subject of many conspiracy theories.

German astronomer of the 17th century who calculated the orbits of planets around the sun (Johannes)

Union of Sweden, Denmark and Norway (1397-1523)

1960s Soviet leader famous for shoe-banging at the U.N. (Nikita)

Former name of a Scandinavian capital

Site of an unsuccessful 1918 sailors’ rebellion against the Bolshevik rule in Russia

Home county of peasant rebel Wat Tyler

This English author became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Rudyard)

German industrial group infamous for arming the Nazis

Capital of the “Rus”, a medieval East Slavic state

Poland's capital from the 11th to the 16th century, heavily destroyed by the Mongols in 1241

Russian painter, pioneer of abstract art (Wassily)

Name of the raft of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl who intended to prove the migration from South America to Polynesia

Austrian longtime conductor of Berlin Philharmonic, controversial due to his career in the Nazi years (Herbert von)

The seven bridges of this Prussian town became a famous logical riddle

City in Western Russia and site of the largest tank battle in history (1943)