Romania had a brief civil war in 1990, after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, between Communists and those against the former regime.
Contemporary civil wars
The following civil wars are ongoing or ended in the past decade, as of 2004. Some of them may be classified as insurrections, etc., rather than full civil wars, as they fade into the past.
A civilwar is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power.
The successful civilwar of the 1640s in England which led to the (temporary) overthrow of the monarchy represented by Charles I became known as the English CivilWar, which can be described, by Marxists and some historians, as the English Revolution.
There are some pre-modern civilwars that can be seen as fueled by religion (the Jewish Revolts against Rome), but these can also be seen as revolts by a servile people against their oppressors or uprisings by local notables in an attempt to gain independence.
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