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European History by Letter - Y

Are you a true expert of Europe's historical figures and locations?

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Last updated: July 5, 2022
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Former country in the Balkans
Yugoslavia
The “White Rose” of the royal houses in Britain
York
HMY Britannia is a famous example of this type of ship
Yacht
Jewish language emerging in the Middle Ages in Central Europe
Yiddish
Former Ukrainian president poisoned with dioxine in 2004 (Viktor)
Yushchenko
Colour of The Beatles’ submarine
Yellow
Irish poet, dramatist, nationalist and senator (William Butler)
Yeats
WWI battle site in Belgium where the Germans used poison gas
Ypres
British TV presenter famous for her interviews “on the bed” in the 1990s (Paula)
Yates
Russian president who stood on a tank and averted a coup in 1991 (Boris)
Yeltsin
Hero of the Greek war of independence (Alexander)
Ypsilantis
Traditional winter festival in Scandinavia
Yule
Alternative name for 1816 AD which was exceptionally cold and led to crop failure and hunger
Year without a summer
Four chemical elements are named after this Swedish mining village (name the village or any of the elements)
Ytterby (Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Terbium)
How British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was dubbed
Yorkshire ripper
Oldest town on the Volga river and medieval principality (13th – 15th century)
Yaroslavl
Given name of cosmonaut Gagarin, the first man in space
Yuri
Scandinavian royal house of the early Middle Ages, subject of a “skald” (old Norse poem)
Yngling
Irish bacteriologist Adrian Stokes isolated the virus of this tropical disease in 1927 (but died from it)
Yellow fever
Most important Soviet aircraft manufacturer in WWII
Yakovlev
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