European History by Letter - U

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The first of its kind in Europe was founded in Bologna

Initiated the first crusade

Its purity and force made this “animal” the national symbol of Scotland

Lenin’s real name (Vladimir Ilyich)

Country in Eastern Europe attacked by Vladimir Putin in 2022

Swedens most important university was founded here in 1477

Bronze Age culture named for the burial rites in that era

Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea and site of the mysterious crash of Itavia Flight 870 in 1980

One of two mountain ranges that make up the border between Europe and Asia

Southern German city of major political and economic importance around 1500

Much blood has been shed over this Irish province

East German leader infamous for his phrase “Nobody has any intention of building a wall” (Walter)

Swedish king Gustav Adolf and his army landed on this island shared today by Germany and Poland

Albanian acronym of the Kosovo Liberation Army

Austrian serial killer who started a literary career in prison, fascinating intellectuals and women (Johann “Jack”, 1950-94)

German site of a mid-air plane collision in 2002 (71 fatalities, plus an air traffic controller assassinated later)

British actor (two Academy Awards), director, author, and cosmopolitan (Sir Peter, 1921-2004)

The fight of the Netherlands for independence started with a 1579 treaty signed in this city

Italy’s last king, reigned for 34 days only in 1946

Small Norwegian island where a right-wing terrorist massacred 69 young people in 2011