Question: The Siege of Pskov took place during the final stage of a war that fought for control of what area?

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Siege of Ancona: Siege of Ancona was a battle in the Neapolitan War.  It took place beginning on May 5, 1815 and persisted until May 30, 1815.  The battle took place mere days after the Battle of Tolentino on May 3, 1815.  The siege of Ancona was one of the last battles in Italy during the Neapolitan War.  The city of Ancona was the last major Italian city to surrender.  It was fought between Napoleon’s forces in Ancona, Italy and the Anglo-Austrian alliance during the One Hundred Days’ campaign.  The Anglo-Austrian alliance eventually defeated Napoleon’s forces, thus helping expel the French from Eastern Italy.  It also contributed to the elimination of the Buonaparte monarchy proposed by Murat and led to the establishment of the Papal state.

Livonian War: The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia), when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union (later Commonwealth) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.

Siege of Pskov: The Siege of Pskov, known as the Pskov Defense in Russia (Russian: оборона Пскова ), took place between August 1581 and February 1582, when the army of the Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stephen Báthory laid an unsuccessful siege and successful blockade of the city of Pskov during the final stage of the Livonian War of 1558–1583.

Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42): The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя , transliteration: "Oborona Sevastopolya") or simply the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle and a siege that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.  The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania, and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in the Crimea on the Black Sea.  On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa.  Axis land forces reached the Crimea in the autumn of 1941 and overran most of the area.  The only objective not in Axis hands was Sevastopol.  Several attempts were made to secure the city in October and November 1941.  A major attack was planned for late November, but heavy rains delayed the Axis attack until 17 December 1941.  Under the command of Erich von Manstein, Axis forces were unable to capture Sevastopol during this first operation.  Soviet forces launched an amphibious landing on the Crimean peninsula at Kerch in December 1941 to relieve the siege and force the Axis to divert forces to defend their gains.  The operation saved Sevastopol for the time being, but the bridgehead in the eastern Crimea was eliminated in May 1942.

Siege of Roses (1794–95): The Siege of Roses (or Siege of Rosas) began on 28 November 1794 and lasted until 4 February 1795 when the Spanish garrison abandoned the port and the forces of the First French Republic took control.  Dominique Catherine de Pérignon commanded the French army and Domingo Salvator Izquierdo led the Spanish defenders.  The siege took place during the War of the Pyrenees which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars.  The war ended in July 1795 and Roses was soon restored to Spain.  Roses is a coastal city in northeastern Spain, located 43 km northeast of Girona.

1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship: The 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship determined CONCACAF's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999.  The final stage of the tournament took place at Etobicoke and Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Canada took the sole automatic qualifying place by finishing first.  The runner-up, Mexico, qualified after defeating Argentina in a two-leg playoff in December 1998.

Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC): The Siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 214–212 BC, at the end of which the Magna Graecia Hellenistic city of Syracuse, located on the east coast of Sicily, fell.  The Romans stormed the city after a protracted siege giving them control of the entire island of Sicily.  During the siege, the city was protected by weapons developed by Archimedes.  Archimedes, the great inventor and polymath, was slain at the conclusion of the siege by a Roman soldier, in contravention of the Roman general Marcellus' instructions to spare his life.

Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory: The Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory (referred to as the Russo-Polish War among Polish historians) took place in the final stage of the Livonian War, between 1577 and 1582.  Polish-Lithuanian forces led by Stephen Báthory (Batory), king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, successfully fought against the army of Ivan IV "the Terrible", tsar of Russia, over the Duchy of Livonia and Polotsk.  Russian forces were expelled from Livonia before the campaign was concluded by the Truce of Jam Zapolski.

Vardar Offensive: The Vardar Offensive (Bulgarian: Офанзива при Вардар ) was a World War I military operation, fought between 15 and 29 September 1918.  The operation took place during the final stage of the Balkans Campaign.  On September 15, a combined force of Serbian, French and Greek troops attacked the Bulgarian-held trenches in Dobro Pole ("Good Field"), at the time part of the Kingdom of Serbia (present day Republic of Macedonia).  The assault and the preceding artillery preparation had devastating effects on Bulgarian morale, eventually leading to mass desertions.

Macedonian Wars: The Macedonian Wars (214–148 BC) were a series of conflicts fought by the Roman Republic and its Greek allies in the eastern Mediterranean against several different major Greek kingdoms.  They resulted in Roman control or influence over the eastern Mediterranean basin, in addition to their hegemony in the western Mediterranean after the Punic Wars.  Traditionally, the "Macedonian Wars" include the four wars with Macedonia, in addition to one war with the Seleucid Empire, and a final minor war with the Achaean League (which is often considered to be the final stage of the final Macedonian war).  The most significant war was fought with the Seleucid Empire, while the war with Macedonia was the second, and both of these wars effectively marked the end of these empires as major world powers, even though neither of them led immediately to overt Roman domination.  Four separate wars were fought against the weaker power, Macedonia, due to its geographic proximity to Rome, though the last two of these wars were against haphazard insurrections rather than powerful armies.  Roman influence gradually dissolved Macedonian independence and digested it into what was becoming a leading global empire.  The outcome of the war with the now-deteriorating Seleucid Empire was ultimately fatal to it as well, though the growing influence of Parthia and Pontus prevented any additional conflicts between it and Rome.

Supporting paragraphs: Siege of Pskov Livonian War
Answer: Old Livonia