Recently, political science has experienced a historical turn with "legacy studies'' becoming increasingly prominent. The vast majority of contributions to this literature examine a single historical event and estimate its impact on a specific dimension of societal organization. Some other papers go one step further by suggesting conditionality of the impact of historical events on other preexisting factors. But could sequences of multiple, distinct historical events interact in complex ways in shaping contemporary legacies? In this paper, we focus on present-day Romania, which was historically subject to both foreign rule and authoritarianism. Theoretically, these historical events could constitute distinct, independent legacies or they could interact in shaping contemporary aspects of social organization. We present a variety of theoretical perspectives on how legacies may interact and test them through a combination of an original survey of local state institutions.