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'''Zalgisbeck''' is the largest city in the nation of [[Hendalarsk]] and is also the capital and largest city of the [[Mouth of the Zalgis]] province. Located on the estuary of the [[Zalgis]], the longest, largest and most prominent river in the nation, Zalgisbeck is increasingly understood as Hendalarsk's modern cultural capital, although traditional culture and political power remain firmly rooted in the national capital, [[Frehmenwerth]]. It is also one of the largest cities of the [[Vandarch]] littoral, rivalled within Hendalarsk only by the Pentapolitan city-states of [[Hukenen]] and [[Wrzeczsz-Kokoszki]].

==History==
Zalgisbeck's history long predates its status as part of Hendalarsk, as it was only incorporated into the country in the course of the [[Maximilianic Unification]] in the 16th century. The city was connected to the country even before then, however, as its position at the mouth of the Zalgis made it a key entrepôt for Hendalarskara traders intrepid enough to venture into the Vandarch.

Recent archaeological excavations suggest that Zalgisbeck was first settled by the [[Nünsyak people|Nünsyak]], the auochthonous pre-Gothic inhabitants of northern Hendalarsk, in approximately 1000 BC; at that time the Nünsyak cultural sphere is believed to have encompassed all of the lower Zalgis as well as the better-known Nünsyak settlements along the [[Herne]]. Its [[Nünsyi language|Nünsyi]] name is not recorded, although Nünsyak political figures have adopted the name ''Nönst'Altx'' (Western Gateway) in recent years; Hendalarskara scholarly convention is to refer to the pre-Gothic settlement as Old Zalgisbeck and this is the only designation which enjoys official recognition.

Old Zalgisbeck was a substantial settlement by the standards of the time, with an estimated population of c.5,000 by 900BC, but was likely peripheral in the Nünsyak order, with the Herne rather than the Zalgis at the heart of Nünsyak culture, cosmology and trade. Although the original inhabitants of the Zalgis watershed before Gothic settlement cultivated the river's banks, there is little evidence of long-distance trade between Old Zalgisbeck and any area of the Zalgis south of modern Agaren, suggesting a patchwork of stable but relatively small subsistence societies along the river's course rather than major polities. Military conflict seems to have begun within a few decades of the Gothic irruption into southern Hendalarsk in around 750 BC, however, as the presence of Gothic-typed weapons in burn layers of the Old Zalgisbeck archaeological record imply destructive Gothic raids along the Zalgis. Both Gothic and Nünsyak oral traditions recorded in the early first millennium AD suggest that the lower Zalgis, and Old Zalgisbeck with it, had been dislocated from the Nünsyak sphere by no later than 500 BC, and Old Zalgisbeck seems to have collapsed as an urban centre of consequence by 300 BC, although small-scale habitation persisted well beyond the city's collapse due to the opportunities for a fishing economy afforded by its natural harbour.  
==Geography==
===Climate===
{{Weather box
|location = [[Zalgisbeck International Airport]], 1991-2020 normals and extremes
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|Jan record high C = 11.0
|Feb record high C = 11.6
|Mar record high C = 17.5
|Apr record high C = 26.1
|May record high C = 29.0
|Jun record high C = 31.7
|Jul record high C = 34.2
|Aug record high C = 32.1
|Sep record high C = 26.2
|Oct record high C = 19.5
|Nov record high C = 15.0
|Dec record high C = 12.7
|year record high C = 
|Jan avg record high C = 6.6
|Feb avg record high C = 7.1
|Mar avg record high C = 12.0
|Apr avg record high C = 18.8
|May avg record high C = 24.3
|Jun avg record high C = 27.5
|Jul avg record high C = 29.7
|Aug avg record high C = 28.2
|Sep avg record high C = 22.4
|Oct avg record high C = 15.8
|Nov avg record high C = 10.7
|Dec avg record high C = 8.5
|year avg record high C = 30.6
|Jan high C = 1.0
|Feb high C = 1.2
|Mar high C = 4.7
|Apr high C = 10.7
|May high C = 16.5
|Jun high C = 20.8
|Jul high C = 23.6
|Aug high C = 22.1
|Sep high C = 16.6
|Oct high C = 10.1
|Nov high C = 5.4
|Dec high C = 2.5
|year high C = 11.3
|Jan mean C = -1.0
|Feb mean C = -1.0
|Mar mean C = 1.6
|Apr mean C = 6.3
|May mean C = 11.4
|Jun mean C = 15.7
|Jul mean C = 18.7
|Aug mean C = 17.7
|Sep mean C = 13.1
|Oct mean C = 7.7
|Nov mean C = 3.6
|Dec mean C = 0.6
|year mean C = 7.9
|Jan low C = -2.9
|Feb low C = -3.2
|Mar low C = -1.1
|Apr low C = 2.6
|May low C = 7.1
|Jun low C = 11.6
|Jul low C = 14.8
|Aug low C = 14.2
|Sep low C = 10.2
|Oct low C = 5.5
|Nov low C = 1.9
|Dec low C = -1.2
|year low C = 5.0
|Jan avg record low C = -11.2
|Feb avg record low C = -10.9
|Mar avg record low C = -7.5
|Apr avg record low C = -2.6
|May avg record low C = 1.9
|Jun avg record low C = 7.0
|Jul avg record low C = 10.6
|Aug avg record low C = 9.7
|Sep avg record low C = 4.6
|Oct avg record low C = -0.8
|Nov avg record low C = -4.5
|Dec avg record low C = -8.3
|year avg record low C = -13.7
|Jan record low C = -19.3
|Feb record low C = -21.0
|Mar record low C = -14.6
|Apr record low C = -6.7
|May record low C = -1.4
|Jun record low C = 3.7
|Jul record low C = 7.8
|Aug record low C = 6.5
|Sep record low C = 1.2
|Oct record low C = -6.4
|Nov record low C = -11.3
|Dec record low C = -18.5
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|Jan precipitation mm = 37.0
|Feb precipitation mm = 29.4
|Mar precipitation mm = 27.3
|Apr precipitation mm = 29.2
|May precipitation mm = 34.0
|Jun precipitation mm = 61.7
|Jul precipitation mm = 61.5
|Aug precipitation mm = 66.2
|Sep precipitation mm = 53.3
|Oct precipitation mm = 51.4
|Nov precipitation mm = 47.6
|Dec precipitation mm = 47.8
|year precipitation mm = 546.4
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|Jan sun = 44
|Feb sun = 75
|Mar sun = 151
|Apr sun = 217
|May sun = 278
|Jun sun = 277
|Jul sun = 279
|Aug sun = 235
|Sep sun = 170
|Oct sun = 96
|Nov sun = 45
|Dec sun = 33
|year sun = 1900
|source 1 = [[Hendalarsk Meteorological Institute]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hwi.hdl/data/meteorologi/meteorologische-observationen-herunterladung#param=airTemperatureMinAndMaxOnceEveryDay,stations=all,stationid=98210 |title=Hendalarsk Meteorological Institute Open Data |access-date=17 February 2021 |archive-date=9 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309014709/https://www.hwi.hdl/data/meteorologi/meteorologische-observationen-herunterladung/#param=airTemperatureMinAndMaxOnceEveryDay,stations=all,stationid=98210 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Politics and Administration==
===Transport===
Zalgisbeck has a notably high water-table for a city of its size. This has made the construction of a subway network prohibitively expensive, despite repeated attempts to do so since the 1890s. Public transport therefore largely consists of tram, light rail and bus networks, as well as national rail links. Zalgisbeck has been called the most "car-hostile" city in Hendalarsk because of its long-term planning around public transport and pedestrians rather than private vehicles; although the city is encircled by a ring-road, there are no motorways within the city proper, and use of the city's roads by individual private vehicles is extremely heavily restricted. Regulations for commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks are considerably more lenient, but stringent emissions regulations introduced after the [[Great Fog of 1951]] mean that almost all vehicles in Zalgisbeck, public or private, run on electric power rather than internal combustion. The city's ferries across the Zalgis still run on diesel engines, but are planned to be replaced with models that use hydrogen fuel cells by the early 2030s.
===Education===
===Economy===
On account of its strategic location at the mouth of the Zalgis, Zalgisbeck has been a major trade entrepôt for its entire history as a Gothic settlement. The Port of Zalgisbeck is by far the busiest port in Hendalarsk outside the Pentapolis, incorporating both maritime trade across the Vandarch and riverine and rail freight within Hendalarsk itself. Over 20% of working adults in Zalgisbeck are employed in industries linked to the port, a figure which has remained steady even amid widespread deindustrialisation across much of the country. Prior to the 20th century, Zalgisbeck had no notable tradition of shipbuilding, but enjoyed a brief boom after the Civil War - historians have mainly attributed this to Hernemünde's comparative devastation in the Civil War, and the simultaneous decline of the maritime copper trade that had been Hernemünde's lifeblood prior to the War and the advent of modern railway infrastructure. Although shipbuilding as a mass industry in Zalgisbeck declined steeply from the 1970s onward, the city retains both bespoke facilities for constructing specialist (particularly scientific) vessels and an extensive network of maintenance drydocks for both foreign and domestic shipping which patronises the Port.

==Demographics==
==Culture==
===Sport===
Zalgisbeck is home to teams in several different sports; by far the most-followed is [[Viktoria Zalgisbeck]], a multi-sport club whose men's footballing department is one of the leading forces in the [[Hendalarskaras Bundesliga]]. The [[Viktoria-Stadion]] complex, located in the city's Rechtsufer neighbourhood, is Viktoria's home base and also the largest sporting venue in Zalgisbeck, able to hold more than 50,000 spectators. Various other less prominent (but still keenly-followed) football sides are also based in the city. FK Sankt-Amadäus contest the Zalgisbeckrö-Derby with Viktoria, while maintaining friendlier relations with [[Zalgisbeque Foot]], a club originally founded by Yonderian migrant workers. Dinamo Zalgis was the city's most prominent club until the 1930s, but has faded into relative obscurity in recent decades. Beyond football, Zalgiasbeck hosts the nation's most prominent baseball team, the Zalgisbecker Schauermänner, while the country's most prestigious tennis tournament (the [[Adam-Károlyi-Pokal]]) has been held in the city in every year since 1889 - with the exception of the years of the [[Hendalarskara Civil War]].
==Notes==
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