10 most difficult Eastern Europe riddles

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.

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

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.

Basketball is the only sport the 3.2 million Lithuanians truly care about. They dominated in pre-war Europe (Euro Basket winners in 1937 and 1939). Having been part of the Soviet Union, Lithuanian players frequently formed the core of the Soviet national team.

The name of the city is derived from the name of the river Moskva.

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.

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

Dnieper is the fourth longest river in Europe. The river is one of the symbols of the Ukrainian nation, it splits the country into two regions: Right-Bank Ukraine and Left-Bank Ukraine.

Vltava is commonly referred to as the Czech national river.