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==History== | ==History== | ||
The history of Mierria began with the settlement of the Atonniod People sometime prior to 300 BC. At the time that [[Aster's expedition|Paul Aster's expedition]] reached the region in 1388, the dominant indigenous cultures on the island were that of the Ak, the Ulaga, and the Mier, from whom the modern name of the island is derived from. The populations of each of these groups would be decimated over throughout the 16th and 17th centuries due to new infectious diseases carried by Occidentals, exploitation by Burgundian slavers, and conflict amongst themselves and foreign traders and settlers. | |||
- | Full-scale colonization of Mierria began with the founding of Dawsbury in 1637 by Sir Augustus Daws as a trade port under royal charter. The pace of colonial settlement would remain slow and steady until the outbreak of the [[Alstinian Civil War]] in 1682, at which point refugees loyal to the Davidian faction began to arrive en masse, nearly sparking an uncontrollable refugee crisis until Sir Julian Daws, son of Augustus, issued the Plantation Decree in 1683, enabling him to systematically settle the refugees across in concerted manner that would ensure his undisputed control over the eastern half of the island. At the conclusion of the Alstinian Civil War, Daws, at the behest of the remaining Davidians and citing the nascent United Republic as illegitimate, had turned the Colony of Mierria into the independent Kingdom of Mierria in 1688, crowning himself as King Julian I; The United Republic, for their part, considered Mierria as a breakaway colony and refused to recognize the legality of the new Mierrian government as independent. Nevertherless, neither party could fully assert their stated positions and would, for nearly the next four decades, clash in series of skirmishes as both competed to settle the western half of the island. The tipping point came in 1721 with the [[Fairwater Massacre]], when Mierrians loyal to and under the orders of the recently crowned Julian III, entered the UR-aligned settlement of Fairwater and brutally murdered all but twelve survivors in an ill-convinced attempt to compel through threat of force the other UR-aligned settlements to pledge loyalty to the Mierrian Kingdom. | ||
The Massacre spurred outrage throughout the United Republic, prompting President Collin Murray to formally request Parliament for a Declaration of War, formally starting what is now known as the [[Julian War]]. For the next 29 months, UR and Mierrian forces clashed as the former slowly but steadily advanced from Linbourne in the west towards Dawsbury in the northeast, all the while consistently clashing with the latter in series of pitched battles, such as at Woodes River, Grainfield, and Saint Lucas. The War ended on 19 December 1723 with the capture of Dawsbury and the death of Julian III; Two weeks later, the Kingdom of Mierria was disestablished and merged with UR-holdings in the west of the island, forming the Territory of Mierria. | |||
Over the course of the next several decades, the United Republic would promote increased settlement of the territory through providing land grants and funding infrastructure projects; However, the biggest draw for colonists during the early 19th century came from the discovery of the mineral deposits in the Klein Range, such as the discovery of silver ore near the town of Zaine in 1829, which prompted a substantial increase in settlers looking to strike it rich through either prospecting or other ventures. As a result, the residents of the territory, seeking to benefit more from such discoveries, would seek admission into the United Republic as a province, eventually being admitted in 1833 as the Commonwealth of Mierria. From there, the pace of development would increase, with its economy becoming among the fastest growing during the latter half of the 19th century. | |||
- | As Mierria became more integrated into the wider Republic, however, resentment grew amongst far-right conservative Mierrians as a result of the gradual loss of their status since the Julian War, the encroachment of Alstinian cultural influence and societal norms, and the mythologized nostalgia for the Kingdom of Mierria. This resentment eventually coalesced into the 1901 Phoenix Rising, a short-lived Burgundian-sponsored rebellion during the First Great War. Despite its failure, the surviving rebels would form the terrorist organization known as the Golden Phoenix, and would subsquently launch a decades-long terror campaign in Mierria with the stated aim of expelling the United Republic from the island and restore the Kingdom of Mierria as an independent state. The terror campaign would reach culminate in 1965 with the Geremo Crisis, which, according to official sources, unsuccessfully held Manao City hostage by threatening the use of chemical weapons from Geremo Island. In the aftermath, organization was systematically hunted by federal authorities, effectively being rendered defunct by 1969. | ||
Since the 1970s, Mierria has experienced a period of relative peace and stability, as the scars of the past continue to heal. Additionally, the province has enjoyed consistent economic and population, as it continues be major nexus of maritime activity between the Oxital and the Sea of St. John; This was recently proven during the Varshani War, as Mierria served as a vital staging point for the invasion of the Varshani homeland in 2023. | |||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||