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One of the new capitals in the Post-Soviet Europe is Kishinev.Capital of which new country?

Moldova. Slavonia does not exist as a country.

San Marino is famous as one of the Mini-countries in Europe. What political system do the San Marinesi live in?

Republic.

All of these towns have names that sound confusingly similar. Which of them is in Denmark?

Helsingoer. Helsingfors is Swedish for Helsinki , which is as everybody knows the capital of Finland. - Helsinborg is in Sweden. - Helsingor is north of Copenhagen and is the place where Shakespeare situates Hamlet's castle 'Elsinore'. Btw Helsinborg and Helsingor are linked by ferry.

Between which two Scandinavian countries would you find the Oresund?

Sweden and Denmark. At the south end of the Oresund , between Malmo and Denmark there is now a bridge. At the north end , between Helsingor and Helsinborg there is still the frequent ferry-service.- Between Denmark and Norway there is the much wider Kattegat.

Which of these rivers on the Iberian peninsula is the only one NOT to flow from East to West , and has its river mouth in the Mediterranean ?

Ebro. Porto is on the Douro . - Lisbon on the Tagus. - The Minho is north of the Douro.

In what country would you find the popular tourist resorts of Bled and Kranj and also the Julian Alps?

Slovenia. With towns such as Zadar,Sibenik, Dubrovnik and with the Plitvice Lakes Croatia has its fair share of tourism too. But the new Slovenia can be said to offer a low-budget variation of the Austrian and Swiss Alps.

Which of these traditional terms includes part of Belgium too ?

the Low Countries by the Sea. Holland , technically speaking ,covers just two provinces of the Netherlands. North Holland with Amsterdam and South Holland with Rotterdam. The word means Wood-land from Dutch Holt- or Hout-land. - the Batavian Republic was the name of the country during the occupation by French 'Revolutionary ' Troops after 1789 and before Napoleon made a Kingdom of it for his brother Louis Napoleon. - The Low Countries by the Sea was the term by which prosperous Flanders (Ghent {;} Bruges ..) and Holland were designated in the rest of late medieval Europe .At that time Amsterdam was little more than a fishing- port.

Which of these towns has quite a few Basques among its population but is not within the official Pais Vasco in Spain?

Pamplona. Pamplona , originally 'the town of Pompey', and now best known for its 'bull-run' is the capital of Navarra. Though a significant part of its population is Basque , Navarra is not one of the 3 provinces that have a special statute within Spain as being the 'Basque Country'. - The Pais Vasco comprehends the provinces of Alava ( cap. Vitoria) , Quipuzcoa ( cap. San Sebastian), Vizcaya ( cap. Bilbao). In those provinces Basque is the official langauge. Before World War II , Guernica had been the capital of an autonomous Basque region and had had a Basque Parliament until a squadron of the German Luftwaffe bombed it to pieces.

Follow up question: what does the official name of ETA (Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna ) stand for??

Basque Homeland and Freedom. Basque is not an Indo-European language.

Which of these places is Spanish but situated within Mainland Africa?

Ceuta.