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Due to Great Levantia's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed. The Latin language of the Levantines evolved into the Romance languages of the medieval and modern world. Its adoption of Christianity led to the formation of Christendom during the Middle Ages. Istroyan and Levantine art had a profound impact on the late medieval Latinic Renaissance, while early Levantia's republican institutions influenced the political development of later republics. The corpus of Levantine law has its descendants in many legal systems of the world today. Great Levantia's architectural tradition served as the basis for Neoclassical architecture.

In [[102 AD]], Senator Julian Marcilius Corvus was given an order by Pont. Max. Gnaeus Servilius Laenas to campaign against the Impaxi on the island of Ipar ([[Ile Burgundie]]) the following year and to establish a naval town on the island from which to control the channel between the island and the mainland ([[Geography of Burgundie#Alavarian Strait|L'Estrech Alavarienne]]). He was given command of Legio XIV Quintillius and enough ships to carry them. He arrived on the island in late [[103 AD]] and for the remainder of the year established his base of operations, shored up his supply lines, established a network of spies, and skirmished with locals. Between April [[104 AD]] and June of [[105 AD]] Corvus and Legio XIV Quintillius dominated the western towns and villages of Ipar and Corvus was named governor of the new province, Brugandia (place of the brugan, a type of spring heather).

Not satisfied to only oversee half of an island with no permanent [[Adonerum|Adonerii Latinic]] population, Corvus needed a way to expand his fight beyond the Saint Tomas River and requested Pont. Max. Gnaeus Servilius Laenas's chief engineer, Hyposthenese of Eagaria, to join his campaign and support the building of bridges for the legion. Pont. Max. Laenas agreed and Hyposthenese was dispatched. Throughout the fall of [[105 AD]] and the first half of [[106]] Hyposthenses led the legion in building a massive bridge across the Saint Tomas River, spanning 483 meters with a deck span of 10 meters. In July of [[106 AD]] the legion marched across the bridge and decimated the local tribal villages. Over the next two years the Legion pacified the remainder of the tribes. During that time Hyposthenese set about building and designing two naval towns and harbors. One to control the channel ([[Geography of Burgundie#Alavarian Strait|L'Estrech Alavarienne]]) between the mainland and the island ([[Port Diteaux]]) and the other oriented towards the [[Sea of Istroya]] to begin to project [[Great Levantia]]'s power over the [[Istroya|Istroyan civilization]] ([[Vilauristre]]). In [[107 AD]] Hyposthenese was recalled to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] but not before leaving a network of roads, bridges, fortified towns, and ports that would lay the framework for modern [[Burgundie]].