| A | B |
| pope | head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Bucharest | capital of Romania |
| Skopje | capital of Macedonia |
| Kiev | capital of Ukraine |
| Prague | "city of a hundred spires" |
| bandura | a stringed instrument |
| potash | a mineral used in fertilizer |
| Magyars | nomadic people from central Asia |
| Cyrillic | alphabet first created to write the Slavic language |
| Prague | capital of the Czech Republic |
| spas | hot mineral springs with healthful waters |
| refugees | people who flee to another country to escape danger |
| ethnic cleansing | forcing people from other ethnic groups to leave their homes |