The first known written mention of the locality is in a document from July 15, 1431, in which the Prince of Moldavia Alexandru cel Bun offered to Ivan Cupcici "14 villages with their old domains and empty land to found new villages and an apiary".

A document dating August 18, 1690, given by Prince Constantin Movilă to Cozma Pop, mentions the village as Iadineți.

In 1940, the Soviet Union, with the consent of the Nazi Germany occupied Bessarabia, created the Moldavian SSR, closing privately owned businesses and religious schools.

A year later, the Romanian Army, now allied with Nazi Germany, drove the Soviets out and recovered Bessarabia.

Within two days, several hundred Jews were murdered by units of Einsatzkommando D and Romanian gendarmes, assisted by some civilians.

In September there were about 12,000 Jews in the ghetto, crammed into a small area, suffering from malnutrition and disease.

Dozens of people died every day, succumbing to disease, cold weather, hunger, or thirst.

The few dozen families still alive at the end of the war settled either in Czernovitz or moved to Israel.

During the Soviet time, the town was also known in the Russified versions Yedintsy and Yedintzi and in Yiddish as Yedinets or Eydinets.