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The Dehn-Sommerville equations for simplicial polytopes express relations between the numbers \(f_i\) of \(i\)-dimensional faces in terms of the Euler characteristics of the various links. Similar considerations are possible for triangulated manifolds and generalized manifolds. If all those Euler characteristics behave like in the case of simplicial polytopes we have the so-called Eulerian manifolds in the sense of V. Klee. The Dehn-Sommerville equations are still valid for them. There are analogues for the case of manifolds with boundary. Even more generally, the authors consider so-called Eulerian stratifications of spaces with singularities and obtain similar Dehn-Sommerville relations. This article is a kind of an extended abstract. More details on the results can be found in papers by the authors in Adv. Appl. Math. 19, 144-168 (1997; Zbl 0879.52009), ibid. 21, 22-57 (1998; Zbl 0919.52014) and J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 85, 1-28 (1999; Zbl 0919.57016). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0926.00021].