History of Eastern Europe

Iranian (Persian) empire (550–330 BC)

thumb|300px|Sarmatian cataphracts depicted on [[Trajan's Column, 2nd century CE.]]

The Alans () were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today the North Caucasus; some continued on to Europe and later North Africa. They are generally regarded as part of the Sarmatians, and possibly related to the Massagetae. Modern historians have connected the Alans with the Central Asian Yancai of Chinese sources and with the Aorsi of Roman sources. Having migrated westwards and becoming dominant among the Sarmatians on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the Alans are mentioned by Roman sources in the . At that time they had settled in the region north of

series of conflicts (1683–1699) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Habsburg Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia), ending with the latter's victory

Polonisation or Polonization (; ; ; ; ) is the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language. This happened in some historic periods among non-Polish populations in territories controlled by or substantially under the influence of Poland.

Cold War territorial conflict between USSR & Turkey

1859 formation of the modern Romanian state

1918 unification of the Kingdom of Romania with most ethnically Romanian territories

past events in the Caucasus region

ethnic community in Eastern Europe

Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring properties seized or otherwise nationalized from privately held owners by a government to privately held status. This may include returning seized property or compensating uncompensated former owners, or reprivatizing state held enterprises to new owners, especially banks, which were privately founded but came under state control due to economic crisis or other factors. The latter scenario is sometimes referred to as privatization, though scholars have specifically referred to the sale of nationalized Mexican and Korean banks to private shareh

thumb|Hermann Struck, Chacham, en face ("[[Hakham, front-facing"), 1932, drypoint, aquatint]]

overview of religion in Transnistria