I'm assuming 'had' means the country no longer exists in the same form, so could it be Austro-Hungary? Just a wild guess
I am trying to think why you would ask this type of question now and what is in the news that would make it spring to mind, so for no other reason than that I am going to say Crimea or if that was never an actual country then Ukraine.
Ha! You are all in the right general area (in fact the territory it covered included all or parts of all the countries mentioned) the 'had' clue is correct, this was an ENORMOUS country, which lasted for a surprisingly long time, and you all know the constituent parts of its name....but nobody remembers it now...a truly fascinating place. Unofficial languages included French, Yiddish, Arabic, Italian and Lithuanian.
On the advice of my son I will now try The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. Although he is not sure of the actual name that was given to this combination!
Well done Terry...the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth - several centuries in existence, the first constitutional monarchy, they had to vote before going to war (ok, only the noblemen, but its a start), they elected the king......eaten up by Russia, Germany, Sweden (big empire at one time, those peace loving Swedes), Austro Hungary in the 18th century.......I urge all those interested to read Norman Davies' 'Vanished Kingdoms", a treasure trove of a book covering lots of strange forgotten countries in Europe. Get loads of questions from it..... Ruthenian is the language of Ruseyn, a territory to the east of Slovakia, itself a country...for one day in 1939 (I've asked that question already).....
Thanks Stan. I would never have come up with the answer by myself! I shall be boring & go back to football. Since the final of the League Cup was moved to Wembley, there has been one season when none of the semi finalists came from the top division Name the four clubs that were involved.
Sorry Nines. One year out & three teams out. The two second division teams played each other (both were promoted) & a third division club beat a fourth division club (no longer in the football league). The third division team became the third winners of the competition from that division & maintained the record of being promoted as well. The following year they became the third team to be promoted from third to first in sucessive seasons.
Sorry, I have misled you here! The original question is correct but the details above are wrong. Having had a doubt in my mind I checked & there were three sides from Division Two (all were promoted). Therefore, the winners did not follow us & Swindon of winning the league cup from the third division. The side from division four were also promoted thats eason.
Just entered the site while I'm meant to be busy at work! Over to you Stan (I think). Villa beat Chester & Norwich beat United in the semis.
Which team holds the BRITISH record of the most successive league wins from the start of a season?...
