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1. Their churches were ordered destroyed by Louis XIV in Fontainebleau, though this group' s religious freedom was ensured by Henry IV' s Edict of Nantes

2. Lovers of this ruler include the namesake of a famous diamond, Grigory Orlov, and a man who built fake villages for one of her inspection tours, Grigory Potemkin

3. This former leader and his mistress Claretta Petacci were killed by partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra near Lake Como

4. Victory for one side came following Operation Uranus, an offensive partially planned by Georgy Zhukov

5. This person summoned Johann von Felbiger in an effort to improve primary education, and also founded an academy for oriental languages

6. This leader demanded Martin Luther come forward at the Diet of Worms, although he later tolerated Protestantism in the Peace of Augsburg

7. The losing side in this conflict disastrously split up its army following a defeat at the Battle of Froeschwiller, also called the Battle of Worth

8. This ruler commissioned the military engineer Vauban to construct a series of fortifications defending his country' s borders

9. That war also saw the Battle of Tsushima Straits

10. The PIDE was a secret police force in this country that was transformed into the DGS before finally being abolished in 1974

11. This country' s policy of Ostpolitik helped normalize relations with its neighbor and was spearheaded by chancellor Willy Brandt

12. Even after victories at Fraustadt andNarva during this war, King Charles XII' s forces were decisively defeated at the Battle of Poltava

13. The phrase 'war feeds itself' is primarily applied to this conflict'

14. He promoted agriculture through his 'Battle for Grain' policy'

15. A film whose English title is Marianne andJuliane provided a name for an era of turmoil here, during which the leader of its ChristianDemocracy party waskilled and stuffed in a car trunk by the Red Brigades

16. One of this man' s paladins was killed by Basques at Roncesvaux Pass

17. This condition was initially proposed by a Russian delegation of Count Matuszewic and Prince Lieven

18. During this war,Marshal Bazaine retreated his Army of the Rhine from the battle of Gravelotte to the town of Metz

19. This entity targeted a country that had just agreed, in the Treaty of Nonsuch, tosupport Dutch rebels

20. This man had earlier served as commander of the Uruguayan navy fighting against Juan Manuel de Rosas

21. In 1612, forces occupying this city were expelled with the help of Dmitry Pozharsky

22. This country has a right wing movement led by Marine Le Pen

23. Anders Behring Breivik committed a mass shooting on this country' s island ofUtoya in 201 This is the westernmost country in which the Sami live, and its current prime minister is Erna Solberg

24. This man defeated Lel, Sur, Bulcsu and other Magyars atthe Battle of Lechfeld

25. This leader gained experience fighting in the Rif War before winning acivil war in the 1930s as leader of the Falange

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