Eastern Europe questions

Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse is a fork-shaped, yellow glass covered arcaded street in central Bucharest, Romania. Câmpineanu Inn once stood in the place nowadays occupied by the passage.The old Inn was bought by Petros Seraphim, who gifted it to two of his daughters as dowries. Daughter Anastasia married Mihalache Macca, who built luxury shops on their part. It was designed by architect Felix Xenopol, and opened in 1891.

Moravia is a historical land in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, named after the Morava river. Moravian people are considerably aware of their Moravian identity and there is some rivalry between them and the Czechs of Bohemia.

Kuban is a geographic region of Southern Russia on the Black Sea between the Don river and the Caucasus.

Dagestan is a republic in the south of the Russian Federation, in the Caucasus region, on the shore of the Caspian Sea. The area is very ethnically diverse, with 13 official languages, and none of its several ethnicities forming a majority.

Karelia is a region divided between Russia and Finland. It stretches from the White Sea to the Baltic Sea.

Tatarstan is a part of the Russian Federation, located between the Volga river and the Ural mountains. As its name suggests, the area is inhabited by Tatars. It was conquered by the troops of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the 1550s and later converted to Christianity.

Yakutia is known for as the coldest area in the Northern Hemisphere. Some of the lowest natural temperatures ever recorded have been here: −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) in Verkhoyansk in 1892, and −71.2 °C (−96.2 °F) in Oymyakon in 1926.

Bulgaria borders Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey.

Ukraine borders Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.

Vltava is commonly referred to as the Czech national river.