Roscampus

Roscampus is a province of Urcea. It is usually considered part of Urcea's Carolina region despite not having been historically a part of the Grand Duchy of Carolina.

History
Roscampus's early history was characterized by Adonerii settlement on its shores, with the port city of Philaridon becoming preeminent over the region by the first century BC. Throughout the Great Levantine period, Philaridon remained an extremely important Levantine port on the Odoneru. After the collapse of Great Levantia, rival families competed for power within the city and modern Roscampus while fending off continued Gothic invasions.

The history of the Roscampus region is closely linked to that of the Philaridon Republic. The Republic was a in Levantia and was part of the Holy Levantine Empire. The city of Philaridon was included in the crown territory of the Southern Kingdom of the Levantines with the division of the Holy Levantine Empire in 917. Following the conquest of the Southern Kingdom and reestablishment of the Empire, the city was granted a special Charter by Emperor Leo I in 976. This Charter gave it and permitted the city to autonomously chose its own system of government, leading to the adoption of a plutocratic mercantile republic in the same year as the once rival families of the city were coopted into a new, stable system. The Republic became a major trade power in the Odoneru and expanded its inland holdings in Levantia. The Republic was a major opponent of the rising Julian realm and was the de facto leader of the Creagmer republics.

The Republic was unable to effectively maintain religious unity during the Protestant reformation and lost most of its territory and autonomy after the Great Confessional War. From the late 16th century the Republic continued to exist but within the reduced borders of a city state, one mostly reliant on Urcea for grain supply and political support, and by 1620 it had been made a formal vassal of the Apostolic King of Urcea. The small remnant of the Republic was formally annexed into Urcea in 1680. The territory of modern Roscampus, excepting some eastern mountainous territory, was organized in 1688 out of the territories acquired from the Republic over the proceeding century as the Duchy of Philaridon. In 1895, the Duchy was joined to peripheral parts of the Archduchy of Urceopolis to create the province as part of the Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892.