The Sinjska Alka is the only remaining example of the medieval knightly competitions that were regularly held in the Croatian coastal towns until the nineteenth century.

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It was not until the early nineteenth century, however, that horns with valves ("valve horns") were invented.

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It was also levied in England until the end of the nineteenth century to control what was believed to be undesirable and unproductive activities such as newspaper reading.

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