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WC Country Info
Description on each country
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ancestry is traced back to the Romans; Oil reserves were huge and helped the Nazis | Romania |
| This country was once a part of Persia; Shares close ties with Turkey; and shares a border with Iran | Iraq |
| Arch Duke Ferdinand's murder sparked WWI; Muslims were Killed | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| Became independent in 2008; capital is Pristina | Kosovo |
| Important center of Slavic culture; Capital is Sofia | Bulgaria |
| Capital is Belgrade; | Yugoslavia |
| Capital is Podgorica | Montenegro |
| At various times, this country was controlled by the Turks, Mongols, & the Tatars | Turkmenistan |
| Desert landscape of this former soviet republic, in the Caucus', 25 million people, communist leaders have regained power | Uzbekistan |
| Lake Bikal, dominated eastern europe until the fall of the berlin wall, large producers of oil and gas | Russia |
| germany and soviets invaded this country in 1939; gave up 1/3 of their land to russia, soldiery movement replaced communism in 191 | Poland |
| the most prosperous republic of the former Yugoslavia republics | Serbia |
| The former home of Alexander the Great; the only Yugoslav republic to separate with nonviolence | Macedonia |
| Split from the soviets; and is closest to finland | Estonia |
| Buda, and Pest are split by the danube | Hungary |
| this nation is second in size to Russia; next to the Aral Sea | Kazakhstan |
| Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986; capital is minsk | Belarus |
| second smallest soviet republic, densely populated, big agriculture, very similar to romania; Chisinau is the capital | Moldova |
| home to the kyrgyz people | Kyrgyzstan |
| this country and solvakia formed a country until 1993 | Czech Republic |
| this country is the breadbasket; name means boarder lands; capital is kiev | Ukraine |
| more people over the age of 100; culture goes back to the 4th century | Georgia |
| People in this country are called Lets; language is based on sand-script | Latvia |
| called Illyria, constantine came from this country; smallest balcan country in size and population; first atheist country | Albania |
| 1700 mile coastline, called the dalmatia coastline | Croatia |
| became one of the first countries in the world to designate christianity as their national religion; first holocaust of the 20th century | Armenia |
| Russians are the largest ethnic minority; capital is vilnus | Lithuania |
| Eastern part of the former Czechoslovakia | Slovakia |
| Nurek Dam is the highest in the world; dushanbe is the capital | Tajikistan |
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