European History by Letter - K

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Queen Victoria was born in this royal palace in West London	Kensington Palace
1389 battlefield important in Serbian history	Kosovo field
Most influential “enlightenment” philosopher of continental Europe (Immanuel)	Kant
Deficit spending in crisis is a key issue in his economic theory (John Maynard)	Keynes
Military order dissolved in 1307, subject of many conspiracy theories.	Knights Templar
German astronomer of the 17th century who calculated the orbits of planets around the sun (Johannes)	Kepler
Union of Sweden, Denmark and Norway (1397-1523)	Kalmar Union
1960s Soviet leader famous for shoe-banging at the U.N. (Nikita)	Khrushchev
Former name of a Scandinavian capital	Kristiania (Oslo)
Site of an unsuccessful 1918 sailors’ rebellion against the Bolshevik rule in Russia	Kronstadt
Home county of peasant rebel Wat Tyler	Kent
This English author became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Rudyard)	Kipling
German industrial group infamous for arming the Nazis	Krupp
Capital of the “Rus”, a medieval East Slavic state	Kiev
Poland's capital from the 11th to the 16th century, heavily destroyed by the Mongols in 1241	Krakow
Russian painter, pioneer of abstract art (Wassily)	Kandinsky
Name of the raft of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl who intended to prove the migration from South America to Polynesia	Kon-Tiki
Austrian longtime conductor of Berlin Philharmonic, controversial due to his career in the Nazi years (Herbert von)	Karajan
The seven bridges of this Prussian town became a famous logical riddle	Königsberg/Kaliningrad
City in Western Russia and site of the largest tank battle in history (1943)	Kursk

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