Kostava
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Kostava[lower-alpha 1], sometimes (but not officially) referred to as the Grand Republic of Kostava[lower-alpha 2] or the Dominion of Kostava[lower-alpha 3], is a country in southwestern Sarpedon. It is bordered to the north by Pelaxia and Volonia, as well as bordered to the east by Calto and Doulan. Kostava is a highly urbanized nation, with about 4/5ths of its population living in urban centers like the capital Gorenk, or regional centers such as Denst or Fervonst. Kostavs, who are native to the region, make up the majority of Kostavans, and Kostava once served as their titular nation prior to the Kostavan Civil War.
Kostava Костава (Kostav) | |
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Anthem: "Grand Anthem of Kostava" | |
 Location of Kostava in Sarpedon | |
| Capital and largest city | Gorenk |
| Official languages | Kastov |
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| Religion | Catholicism Protestantism |
| Demonym(s) | Kostavan (noun) Kostavan (adjective) |
| Government | Representative Democracy |
• President | Mikhail Kevartli |
• Prime Minister | Urkali Utze |
| Legislature | Kostavan Assembly |
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| Provincial Duma | |
| Establishment | |
• An event | A date |
| Area | |
• Total | 568,661 km2 (219,561 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 224,000,000 |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | $40 trillion |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | $7.84 trillion |
• Per capita | $35,000 |
| Gini |  36.0medium |
| HDI (Estimate) |  0.821very high |
| Currency | Kostavan Syri (₴) |
| Time zone | Central Sarpedon Time (CST) |
| Mains electricity | 220 V–50 Hz |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +7 |
| Internet TLD | .ko .ко |
Inhabited since the lower paleolithic era, Kostava is home to some of the oldest sites of civilization. Proper city-states began to establish themselves around 14th century BC, with dozens of kingdoms controlling the land. The South Slavs were the dominant culture that emerged at the beginning of the 3rd century AD, and Christianity was widely adopted, helping the establishment of Gorenkian Kov, which is commonly believed to be the first South Slav state in the world. Gorenkian Kov fractured into several slavic states by 8th century AD. The Grand Duchy of Gorenk claimed to be the successor of Gorenkian Kov, and began unifying Kostavan lands, declaring the Tsardom of Kostava in 1421. In 1587, Rurik Ugar was crowned tsar of the Tsardom of Kostava and began a series of aggressive skirmishes to become the 2nd largest empire in Sarpedon, behind the Third Imperium of Caphiria. The empire fought alongside the Aliança in the First Great War, and the subsequent loss of said war resulted in the Great Socialist Uprising in which members of the lower and working classes stormed the capital and killed the Tsar of Kostava. This resulted in a schism between northern and southern Kostava, creating 2 opposing states, the Kostavan Socialist Republic, and the Most Serene Republic of Kartvelia, which fought each other in the Kostavan Civil War. The Kostavan Socialist Republic is usually considered to be the victor of the war, but as part of the peace talks that unified the two countries, the new country was required to drop all official socialist terminology, and as such the new country is only to be known as Kostava. During the Second Great War, Kostava underwent rapid industrialization and fought alongside pro-Levantine forces such as Delepasia hoping to secure successful international trade for the commune. Following the war, the Kostavan governmen took a notably anti-Caphirian stance during the Occidental Cold War, leading to particularly harsh tensions due to the two nations' proximity. After the end of the Cold War in 1984, Kostava's ruling class no longer saw the need to enforce as much socialist propaganda on the youth, and so began the period of Glasnost and Perestroika (гласность и перестройка) in which Kostava became a more free democracy, adopted a mixed market economy, and became more involved in peaceful international relations.
Kostava is usually considered a great regional power of Sarpedon, and is a member of the League of Nations as well as other intranational organizations with Castadilla and Veltorina.
Etymology
The Ænglish name Kostava first appeared in the 14th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin. The term was created by applying the suffix -a with Kostav (from Kostava).
There are several words in Kostav which translate to "from Kostava" in Ænglish. The noun and adjective костав, kostav refers to ethnic Kostavans. The adjective костави, kostavi denotes Kostavan citizens regardless of ethnicity. The same applies to the more recently coined noun коставанский, kostavaskiy, in the sense of citizen of the Kostavan state.
The oldest endonyms used were Kov (Ков) and the "Kostavan land" (Коская земля, Koskaya zemlya). Another Medieval Latin name for Kov was Kastovia.
In Kostava, the current name of the country, Костава, comes from the Pelaxian name Kostía. The name Косия (Kosiya) was first attested in 1387. The name Kostava appeared in Kostavan sources in the 15th century and began to replace the vernacular Kov during the rise of Gorenk as the center of a unified Kostavan state. However, until the end of the 17th century, the country was more often referred to by its inhabitants as Kov, the "Kostavan land" (Koskaya zemlya), or the "Gorenkovite state" (Gorenkovskoye gosudarstvo), among other variations.
In 1421, Tsar Syimba the Great proclaimed the Kostavan Empire (Kostavaskaya imperiya). The name Kostava was used as the common designation for the multinational Kostavan Empire and then for the modern Kostavan state. Kostavan is distinguished from the ethnonym kostav, as it refers to a supranational identity, including ethnic Kostavans. After the First Great War and the proclamation of the Kostavan SR in 1902, the "Kostavan" in the title of the state was Kostaviya, rather than Kostav, as the former denoted a multinational state, while the latter had ethnic dimensions. In modern Kostava, the name Kov is still used in poetry or prose to refer to either the older Kostava or an imagined essence of Kostava.
History
Prehistory
The oldest traces of archaic humans in what is now Kostava date from approximately 1.8 million years ago in the form of the Dmanisi hominins, a subspecies of Homo erectus representing the oldest-known fossils of hominins in Sarpedon. Buffered by the Ugar mountains and benefiting from the ocean's ecosystem, the region seems to have served as a refugium throughout the Pleistocene, while the first continuous primitive settlements date back to the Middle Paleolithic, close to 200,000 years ago. During the Upper Paleolithic, settlements developed mostly in western Kostava, in the valleys of the Riyona and Kila rivers.
Signs of agriculture date back to at least the 6th millennium BC, especially in western Kostava, while the eastern regions became stably populated in the 5th millennium BC, as evidenced with the rise of various eastern cultures. Archaeological findings show that settlements in modern-day Kostava were responsible for the first use of fibers, possibly for clothing, more than 34,000 years ago, the first cases of viticulture (7th millennium BC), and the first signs of gold mining (3rd millennium BC).
Pre-Kostavan states
The first major powers of modern day Kostava appeared around the 3rd century AD, as 8 kingdoms scrambled to claim all of Kostava. The smallest of the kingdoms was the Duchy of Soviyeska, which maintained peaceful relations with the nearby Principality of Mudansk while warring against Gorenkian Kov and Kartvelia. Origvia was a kingdom ruled by the Orig dynasty in eastern Kostava, and was the first kingdom to be annexed by Gorenkian Kov, before Soviyeska, Mudansk, Kartvelia, Biyana, Sekartvelos, and Brudashme in that order.
By the 5th century, the entire peninsula was under control of Gorenkian Kov, which made efforts to Catholicize the region and make it Christian. Gorenkian Kov notably encountered hardships converting the 3 maritime kingdoms of Biyana, Brudashme, and Origvia, as these kingdoms had strong pagan beliefs which were uncommon for other kingdoms in the region. Kostavan culture was less influenced by Catholic writings than Levantiane and Caphirian cultures, as Gorenkian Kov spread Christianity through state regulated books, and did not follow the Catholic canon as closely as other Catholic states. The modern Kostavan language reflects this with much less Latin and Greek terms than cultures that had Latin and Greek introduced to them through the Bible.
Gorenkian Kov collapsed in the 8th century due to disputes over who would be the next leader, leaving behind various states warring over the land that they believed that they could claim. Gorenk's dominance waned in the west as noble families who claimed to be the successors of previous states slowly took control of portions of Kostava. Two notable opposers to Gorenk rule included Lutaska and Novgud which became popular and wealthy regional powers after Gorenkian Kov's collapse. The Grand Duchy of Gorenk was the only empire that made very successful efforts to reunite the states under Kostava, and in 1421, the Tsardom of Kostava was declared. Notably, the only empire to carry over from before Gorenkan Kov's successful takeover of the entire peninsula was Kartvelia. Other notable kingdoms include Twei Piks which controlled two tiny peninsulas of islands otherwise controlled by Polonskiya, and the Verassan people, who sought to be the successor of Origvia. Several states competed to be the successor of the Principality of Biyana, but one notably was called South Kartvelia, despite having nothing to do with the Kartvelian state. This is evidence to how the Kartvelian identity was spreading across southern Kostava, and is the historical basis for the modern day Kartvelian provinces.
Tsardom of Kostava
Tsardom of Kostava Коставское царство | |||||||||
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| Capital | Gorenk | ||||||||
| Religion | Catholic | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1881-1902 | Gregor Pelukov | ||||||||
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• Proclamation of the Tsardom | 1427 | ||||||||
• Great Socialist Uprising | 1902 | ||||||||
| Currency | Syri | ||||||||
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After conquering about half of modern day Kostava, Tsar Syimba the Great declared the Kostavan Empire. The Tsardom of Kosava tried to aggressively expand its borders in the north and east, but met resistance from initially the Isurian Kingdom, but by 1587 also the Pelaxian Kingdom, and the Third Imperium of Caphiria. This resulted in Kosava only spreading east into modern day Pelia and and Calto. Early in its life after founding in 1427, the tsardom was an absolute monarchy without any other form of government. With the crowning of Rurik Ugar in 1587, Tsar Ugar created a representative body, curbed the influence of the clergy, revamped the military, and organized local forms of government for towns. It's during this time that Kosava was able to nearly triple its size with the additions of Pelia and Calto. This era is sometimes referred to as the Ugaritic reform.
The Tsardom led the country into the First Great War in the Aliança, hoping to form beneficial relations with neighbors like Pelaxia. The war would be the Tsardom's undoing, as the war was lost, and this made average Kostavans distrust the monarchy. When rioters began to protest Pelukov's rule in late 1902, the Tsar tried to maintain peace by not sending any of his guard in case they were to increase tensions. In what is commonly called the Great Socialist Uprising, socialist political leaders such as Gorad Krosnik and Vladimir Kot led groups into the Imperial Palace and executed the tsar via decapitation. Socialists then took control of all aspects of government, declaring the new nation as the Kostavan Socialist Republic.
Kostavan Socialist Republic
Communist country before the civil war, north Kostava was communist
Territories separated from Kostava via the Ugar mountains (i.e. Calto and Pelia) were not seriously claimed by the Kostavan Socialist Republic as the new nation was too busy trying to reintegrate Kartvelia, and once the Kostavan Civil War ended in 1918, the government was no longer interested in waging war against former territories.
Most Serene Republic of Kartvelia
Southern Kostava was its own country before the civil war
Second Great War
Anti-Caphirian, industrialization, Delepasian ally
Occidental Cold War
Anti-Caphirian again
Glasnost and Perestroika era
Communist parties begin to loosen propaganda and the country becomes more free
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