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===Sunderance=== | ===Sunderance=== | ||
Like most overseas provinces, Suderavia would remain loyal to the Federalist government during the [[Kiravian Civil War]]. Peasant life on the peninsula was harsh, to be sure, but feudalism had never truly taken root in the agriculturally marginal province. The hardy Suderavian {{wt|husbandman|husbandmen}} were attune to the cruelty and caprice of Nature and did not think themselves victims of injustice resoluble by political action. Suderavia did have a proletariat employed in the mining camps, port towns, and coaling stations, and there was indeed an active trade union movement, but historians believe that the unions in Suderavia had actually been generally successful in addressing workers' concerns to their satisfaction and without violent confrontation. To the | Like most overseas provinces, Suderavia would remain loyal to the Federalist government during the [[Kiravian Civil War]]. Peasant life on the peninsula was harsh, to be sure, but feudalism had never truly taken root in the agriculturally marginal province. The hardy Suderavian {{wt|husbandman|husbandmen}} were attune to the cruelty and caprice of Nature and did not think themselves victims of injustice resoluble by political action. Suderavia did have a proletariat employed in the mining camps, port towns, and coaling stations, and there was indeed an active trade union movement, but historians believe that the unions in Suderavia had actually been generally successful in addressing workers' concerns to their satisfaction and without violent confrontation. To the [[1934 Constitutional Convention|Constitutional Convention of 1934 AD]], Suderavia was alotted two seats, and returned one deputy off the Agrarian list and one off the Whiggamore list. | ||
Suderavia's involvement with the Civil War was minimal until its closing stages as the major eastern ports fell one by one to the Red Army. Initially few (but some) refugees fleeing the mainland arrived on Keremonta's wharves, with most seeking haven on Ilánova or Koskenkorva instead. However, when ''these'' islands came under threat from the Socialist forces, Suderavia found itself taking in more and more refugees and playing host to considerable quantities of evacuated Federalist troops, ships, and matériel. With the eventual loss of Koskenkorva, Suderavia was left in an unenviable position: Far from the nearest Federalist stronghold ([[Eusa]]) across dangerous waters, far removed from the main body of Federalist forces who were [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|then fighting on Great Kirav's west coast]], and much farther still from the Federalist government-in-exile in [[Sirana]]. Thanks to the [[Kiravian_Civil_War#Wrecking_of_the_Fleet|Wrecking of the Fleet]] by retreating Federalists, the Red Navy could not threaten Suderavia ''for the time being''. However, Suderavia had been incontrovertibly left to fend for itself - and for nearby defenceless [[Scapa]]. | Suderavia's involvement with the Civil War was minimal until its closing stages as the major eastern ports fell one by one to the Red Army. Initially few (but some) refugees fleeing the mainland arrived on Keremonta's wharves, with most seeking haven on Ilánova or Koskenkorva instead. However, when ''these'' islands came under threat from the Socialist forces, Suderavia found itself taking in more and more refugees and playing host to considerable quantities of evacuated Federalist troops, ships, and matériel. With the eventual loss of Koskenkorva, Suderavia was left in an unenviable position: Far from the nearest Federalist stronghold ([[Eusa]]) across dangerous waters, far removed from the main body of Federalist forces who were [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|then fighting on Great Kirav's west coast]], and much farther still from the Federalist government-in-exile in [[Sirana]]. Thanks to the [[Kiravian_Civil_War#Wrecking_of_the_Fleet|Wrecking of the Fleet]] by retreating Federalists, the Red Navy could not threaten Suderavia ''for the time being''. However, Suderavia had been incontrovertibly left to fend for itself - and for nearby defenceless [[Scapa]]. | ||
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There is reason to believe that the ethnic Covine population of Suderavia is deliberately undercounted by the authorities and could number as high as one fifth of the total population. The General Council of [[Covinian-Kiravians|Covine-Kiravians]] is the leading interlocutor on behalf of this minority group's interests. | There is reason to believe that the ethnic Covine population of Suderavia is deliberately undercounted by the authorities and could number as high as one fifth of the total population. The General Council of [[Covinian-Kiravians|Covine-Kiravians]] is the leading interlocutor on behalf of this minority group's interests. | ||
==== | ====Kiravite Minorities==== | ||
The main Kiravite Minority communities in Suderavia are Skinanawites and Kópistonians, with smaller numbers of Érhuans. | |||
It is known that a small community of [[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Skithanawites|Skithanawites]] already existed by the time of their mysterious 1847 religious schsim. It is unknown precisely when or why Skithanawite appeared on the peninsula, but the most likely theory seems to involve the dispatch of Skithanawite warriors as shock troops for a past attempted expansionist campaign in Levantia. After the [[Kiravian Civil War]], these established ''colons'' were joined by a much larger swell of Skithanawite refugees from the Kiravian Mainland, including their reigning {{wp|ethnarch}}, as Skithanawites experienced especially harsh oppression by the Kiravian Union. The Skithanawite customary monarch resides in Suderavia during the warmer months and is actively involved in the peninsula's affairs. | |||
The Kópistonian presence in Suderavia dates at least as far back as the 1400s AD, perhaps as early as the 1200s. | |||
====Levantine Peoples==== | ====Levantine Peoples==== | ||
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