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'''South Coscivians''', also known domestically as '''Southerners''' or '''Southrons''' are a [[Coscivian civilisation#People|Coscivian]] ethnic group inhabiting [[South Kirav]]. They are the second-largest Coscivian ethno-linguistic group after the [[Kir people|Kir]]. Outside their core homeland in the states of [[Issyria]], [[Merav]], [[Andrēdan]], and [[ | '''South Coscivians''', also known domestically as '''Southerners''' or '''Southrons''' are a [[Coscivian civilisation#People|Coscivian]] ethnic group inhabiting [[South Kirav]]. They are the second-largest Coscivian ethno-linguistic group after the [[Kir people|Kir]]. Outside their core homeland in the states of [[Issyria]], [[Merav]], [[Andrēdan]], and [[Xula]], where they account for an absolute majority of the population, South Coscivians are the largest ethnic group in [[Trinatria]] and are also found in substantial numbers in other provinces of Middle Kirav and the Southwest, as well as in diaspora in [[Caphiria]]. Although not the only ethnic group native to [[Great Kirav#Cultural regions|South Kirav]], the region's trans-ethnic identity, lifestyle, and history have been shaped primarily by South Coscivians. | ||
Southern Coscivians are known for their unique cultural traits that distinguish them from the other regional cultures of Great Kirav and from the "mainstream" national culture of Kiravia at-large, especially their time-honoured and complex codes of civility, context-rich sense of social hierarchy, rich cuisine, and much beloved musical tradition. | Southern Coscivians are known for their unique cultural traits that distinguish them from the other regional cultures of Great Kirav and from the "mainstream" national culture of Kiravia at-large, especially their time-honoured and complex codes of civility, context-rich sense of social hierarchy, rich cuisine, and much beloved musical tradition. | ||
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===Recreation=== | ===Recreation=== | ||
Like other Kiravians, Southrons participate in the popular nationwide sports of fieldball (or "Kiravian-rules football") and shinty. Fieldball is an especially important cultural institution in Southern Kirav, where it is a key fixture of scholastic, university, and community life. Players from Southern states are greatly overrepresented in the ranks of the top professional fieldball leagues, although most professional teams are based in Northern cities. Southrons are noted for their continued enjoyment of pre-modern sports that have fallen out of mainstream popularity elsewhere in Kiravia and the wider world, such as equestrianism, archery, fencing, and falconry. Hunting is extremely popular among Southrons, both for sustenance (especially among the poorer classes) and for sport, and access to privately-held forests (which is often a hereditary privilege) is highly prized. South Coscivians frequently represent the Federacy in international-level competitions for shooting sports and archery. | Like other Kiravians, Southrons participate in the popular nationwide sports of fieldball (or "Kiravian-rules football") and shinty. Fieldball is an especially important cultural institution in Southern Kirav, where it is a key fixture of scholastic, university, and community life. Players from Southern states are greatly overrepresented in the ranks of the top professional fieldball leagues, although most professional teams are based in Northern cities. Southrons are noted for their continued enjoyment of pre-modern sports that have fallen out of mainstream popularity elsewhere in Kiravia and the wider world, such as equestrianism, archery, fencing, and falconry. Hunting is extremely popular among Southrons, both for sustenance (especially among the poorer classes) and for sport, and access to privately-held forests (which is often a hereditary privilege) is highly prized. South Coscivians frequently represent the Federacy in international-level competitions for shooting sports and archery. | ||
===Ghosts=== | |||
Ghosts are a ubiquitous feature of South Coscivian reality. Whereas most Occidental and other Coscivian cultures understand ghosts as an abnormality or disturbance in one way or another, associated with tragic events and derelict places, South Coscivians proceed under the assumption that ghosts are always about and rarely cause for concern. Southern folk traditions prescribe all manner of simple invocations and rituals to pacify the restless shadows of the departed when they become a nuisance, based on the notion that most ghosts simply want to be acknowledged, and that once they feel seen and heard they will kindly fuck off. | |||
==Language== | ==Language== | ||
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About one-third of South Coscivians follow Islam. [Sects n' stuff]. | About one-third of South Coscivians follow Islam. [Sects n' stuff]. | ||
Although they share the practice with most other Coscivian groups, South | Although they share the practice with most other Coscivian groups, South Coscivians are noted for their devotion to {{wp|ancestor worship}} in Christianised or Islamised form. South Kirav is home to a large number of ancestral shrines, each of which is associated with a particular lineage. These shrines originated as graveyards with chapels on site, but have grown over the centuries into large complexes containing numerous tombs and ossuaries. Most Southerners will travel to their ancestral shrine a few times each year to honour their ancestors with burnt offerings and libations. | ||
==Cuisine== | ==Cuisine== | ||
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Due to the larger cattle-raising industry in the South (particularly Korlēdan) and the use of steak and veal as status symbols by the upper strata of South Kirav's hierarchical culture, Southern cuisine has traditionally made much greater use of fresh beef than other Kiravian regional cuisines, which relied heavily on poultry, fish, pork, and preserved beef products. Beef as a distinguishing feature of Southern cuisine became even more prominent after the introduction of Islam to South Kirav, as Muslim converts abstained from pork and certain seafoods. | Due to the larger cattle-raising industry in the South (particularly Korlēdan) and the use of steak and veal as status symbols by the upper strata of South Kirav's hierarchical culture, Southern cuisine has traditionally made much greater use of fresh beef than other Kiravian regional cuisines, which relied heavily on poultry, fish, pork, and preserved beef products. Beef as a distinguishing feature of Southern cuisine became even more prominent after the introduction of Islam to South Kirav, as Muslim converts abstained from pork and certain seafoods. | ||
[[File:Cevapcici Bosnia (10675837796).jpg|thumb|Some Southern dish]] | |||
Southerners have a fondness for fried dishes that reflects the abundance of oil crops (canola, soy, corn) in the region and a long history of importing olive, coconut, and palm oil from [[Caphiria]] and South Levantia. | Southerners have a fondness for fried dishes that reflects the abundance of oil crops (canola, soy, corn) in the region and a long history of importing olive, coconut, and palm oil from [[Caphiria]] and South Levantia. | ||
[[ | Southerners maintain that {{wp|beer}} was independently invented in South Kirav in prehistoric times, as a logical development from intensive cereal cultivation. Archæological and phytogenetic evidence lends some credence to this claim. A longstanding dispute between South Coscivians and [[Antaric Coscivians]] concerns which people happened upon {{wp|lager|cool-fermentation}} techniques first, with Southerners claiming that their ancestors were the first in Kiravia to do so, warehousing beer in the caves of {{wp|karstic}} [[Issyria]] to prevent spoilage during the region's longer and hotter summers. Christian South Coscivians are prolific consumers of beer, including {{wp|table beer}} and {{wp|mild ale}} as common soft drinks. The [[Corcoran Institution]]'s Museum of Brewing and Distillation Arts estimates the number of market-traded {{wp|beer style|beer styles}} native to South Kirav with a lower bound of 80, noting that cataloguing localised heirloom styles and farmhouse ales unattested in writing is a generational task, and that an indeterminately large number of family- and village-based brewing traditions died out during Kirosocialism. | ||
Southern coffee culture is borrowed directly from its Caphirian counterpart. In contrast to their more northerly relatives, South Coscivians prefer the lighter roasts. | |||
==Ancestry== | |||
South Coscivians have a very even admixture of genetic markers associated with the Archæo-Cronan and Archæo-Levantine migrants to Great Kirav, whereas more northerly Coscivian ethnicities tend to have more ancestry from one prehistoric founder population or the other, depending on their region of origin. On average, they have a markedly smaller "Wanderer" contribution to their genetic makeup than their fellow Coscivians to the north. | |||
==Identity and Politics== | |||
South Coscivians have developed a strong identity and sense of distinctiveness that blends both ethnic and regional characteristics, which can manifest politically as {{wp|nationalism}}, {{wp|regionalism}}, {{wp|subnationalism}}, and {{wp|minority politics}}. | |||
South Coscivian ethno-regional identity emerged during the {{wp|early modern period}} in response to the contentious politics of the era, regional rivalries, and the pressures of modernisation on the traditional Southern lifestyle and economy. Prior to that era, the ancestors of today's South Coscivians enmeshed themselves in an overlapping web of more specific caste, village, patrilineal, religious/sectarian, feudal, and micro-regional identities. Despite overarching cultural commonalities and high mutual intelligibility across the South Coscivian {{wp|ialect continuum|dialect continuüm}}, premodern Southerners had little in the way of shared identity or popular solidarity. | |||
[Evolution and consolidation of South Coscivian ethnic identity]<br> | |||
[Contrarian regional identity]<br> | |||
[Ethnic vs. regional nature]<br> | |||
South Coscivians have strong {{wp|traditionalism|traditionalist}} and {{wp|agrarianism|agrarian}} leanings in politics. On the state level, their general attitude of deference to authority and strong preference for stability and continuity have led to the establishment of {{wp|dominant party state|dominant-party systems}} under the rule of parties affiliated with the Southern Green-Right conference. Most opposition parties are affiliated with the [[Agrarian Caucus]], Organic Social Union, or the [[Minor Kiravian Political Parties#Monarchist Party|Monarchist Parties of Kiravia]], and have limited influence. | |||
On the federal level, South Coscivians are strong supporters of the [[Authentic Historical Caucus]]. | |||
== | ==Diaspora== | ||
South Coscivians | Millions of South Coscivians or people of South Coscivian descent live outside of the modern territorial theme of [[South Kirav]], both in other parts of the Kiravian Federacy and abroad. The largest and most notable overseas population of South Coscivians is found in [[Caphiria]]. Most established families of the Coscivian minority in Caphiria trace their ancestry to South Kirav or the Baylands, a fact that is reflected in their home language, cuisine, music, and customs. | ||
After the Kiravian Civil War, during which South Coscivians had overwhelmingly thrown in with the defeated anti-communist side, many South Coscivians fled the Kiravian Mainland. The largest share of these emigrants settled in Caphiria, where many already had relatives. Others relocated to [[Kiravian Remnant|the remaining Federalist-held colonies]] in Æonara and Sarolasta, or to other South Cronan countries, such as Paulastra and Tierrador. Smaller numbers of Catholic Southerners resettled in Urcea and the Levantine mainland, while a few Muslim Southerners took refuge in [[Rumelistan]] and other Muslim-majority states. | |||
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