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The uneven prosperity of Ardmore, combined with a greatly uneven period of industrial development in the 18th and 19th centuries, lead to considerable class resentment and domestic problems. The growing rifts between the parts of society lead to the [[Ardmori Civil War]], which resulted in the establishment of a {{wp|syndicalist}} republic in Ardmore. The Civil War resulted in the partition of the country into Ardmore and what is now New Ardmore, which existed briefly as a {{wp|constitutional republic}} under the personal leadership of the last Prince-Regent of the Kingdom of Ardmore before subsequently becoming a protectorate and overseas region of [[Kiravia]]. Ardmore today is a relatively developed nation which is adjacent to, but not part of, the [[Levantine Union]]'s political and economic sphere. Although an outspoken critic of [[Urcea]] and Levantine foreign policy in general, and despite its revolutionary socialist form of government, Ardmore has been making an effort to more closely align with Levantia in recent decades such as through token reforms.

==Etymology==

==Geography==

Prior to the arrival of the [[Garán people]] to Great Ardmore, a wide variety of people are thought to have lived on the island and the adjoining parts of the archipelago. [[Adonerii]] cities were established on the island by 600 BC, representing the furthest northern outposts of that civilization. The Adonerii cities were relatively sparsely populated compared to the rest of the [[Latinic people|Latinic]] world, and few historical records survive from them. From what records do exist, historians believe the islands were mostly populated by a [[Paleo-Levantine peoples|Paleo-Levantine people]] likely known as the [[Paleo-Levantine_peoples#Ardmen|Ardmen]], from which the islands get their name. Very little is known about the Ardmen, though they continued to inhabit the interior of the island when it became a tributary of [[Great Levantia]] in ca. 50 BC. Great Levantine influence on the island was limited, with the few urban centers largely sending tribute to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] with little to no Levantine military influence on the island. Like much of the area, the earliest peoples of Great Ardmore - both Latinic and Ardmen - relied on fishing. The islands were not especially prosperous and were not along the main, [[Crotona]]-based trade route between [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]], and were considered a backwater during antiquity.

===Medieval period===

{{main|Medieval Ardmore}}

[[File:Brain_Boru_sculpture_outside_Chapel_Royal_outside_Dublin_Castle.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Sclupture of Duke [[Con Rose of Rosmore|Con Rose]] of [[Duchy of Rosmore|Rosmore]], one of the greatest heads of the ducal [[House of Rose]] and ancestor of the royal [[House of Cannan]].]]

The practice of raiding would soon disappear before 910 with the advent of border skirmishes, the rise of a landed gentry, and the introduction to the practice of knighthoods into the Ardmori Isles. The first major outbreak to have occurred on the Ardmori Isles was the North Island War, which started when Conn Rose, Duke of Rosmore and head of the House of Rose, began to attack the settlements of the County of Kilinmuir to capture the eastern port town of Granway and to subjugate the ruling Clan O'Coffey in 933. In response, Kilinmuir launched raids against Rosmore settlements the year after. The conflict would not escalate until the Battle of Ballyhill in 939. The Duchy of Rosmore would emerge victorious in 981, and the borders between it and Kilinmuir were delineated for the first line; Kilinmuir, however, was able to maintain its independence and would not have to swear an oath of fealty to Rosmore. The next major conflict on the isles was the South Island War which began in 944 when the Duchy of Dunval attempted to conquer the Duchy of Kilkken and fought alongside its ally the Lord Mayorship of Craignaisaig against Kilkken's ally the County of Balnaessie; the conflict ended in failure for Dunval in 962.

===Modern period===

[[File:Brendan_Corish_1949.png|thumb|left|190px|[[Rowan Breen]], Chairman of the Board of Labor and Syndicalist Party leader from 1960 until 1995.]]

The establishment of a {{wp|socialist economy}} under the principles of syndicalism necessitated the decentralization of the economy through the establishment of workers' unions. However, there still remained a societal expectation amongst the populace for a wide-ranging social institution that would become a prominent aspect in the lives of many citizens. To figure out how to overcome this expectation while ensuring a loyal populace, the leaders of the [[Syndicalist Party of Ardmore|Syndicalist Party]], born from Ros Mac Daibhéid's Ardmori Liberation Army, formed the temporary [[Council of Dunvál]] to figure out how to incorporate the principles of syndicalism into Ardmori culture, preferably through means that would harken back to the days when the main social institution was the clan system. The solution the council came up with was rather simple, although workers' cooperatives would be established to represent the nation's syndicates, there would also be community cooperatives which would represent the local communities throughout the country and serve as a means to promote communitarian kinsmenship and solidarity much like how the workers' cooperatives are designed to promote labor comradery and solidarity. The community cooperatives would become a tremendous success and would set a precedent that Ardmore's government would work to adapt Ardmori culture to the values of syndicalism.

With the advent of the [[Occidental Cold War]] in the 1950s, Ardmore played a strictly neutral role as it saw the period of geopolitical tension as nothing more than a series of needless contests between two imperialistic powers. For the most part, Ardmore's biggest concern was the nearby republic to its west as well as internal matters with only Kiravia and later [[Vithinja]] maintaining any kind of formal diplomatic relations. After Mac Shuibhne's retirement in 1960, his successor was [[Rowan Breen]] whose leadership was responsible for designating [[Ænglish language|Ænglish]] as a recognized regional language, citing that the language is still used by the descendants of the Ænglish Protestants who have stayed in Ardmore instead of migrating to Crona. It was also at this time when further attempts at adapting Ardmori society into the syndicalist ideology, most notably the creation of a so-called "workers' sport"; [[cumasball]] incorporates elements of {{wp|volleyball}}, and {{wp|association football}} and the new sport was primarily intended to replace {{wp|baseball}} as Ardmore's most popular sport, seeing as an "imperialist sport" from the mainland.

==Government==

Prior to the early 1970s, Ardmore's energy production was entirely coal-driven. The power grid was even worse prior to the 1930s as, due to Ardmore's relative backwater status compared to the rest of Levantia despite being one of its wealthier countries, it was not that well-developed. Only major cities and select nearby settlements as well as settlements populated by Ardmore's high society had a power grid. The haphazard layout of these power grids meant that there were differing standards between settlements, and some grids were under {{wp|direct current}} which often led to mass amounts of confusion as appliances that were designed for {{wp|alternating current}} grids often did not work correctly due to the lower voltage in direct current grids. When the Ardmori Civil War ended with a socialist victory in 1931, the new cooperative republic had set to work unifying and standardizing the power grid, dismantling any and all direct current grids while also dismantling non-compliant alternating current grids. Ardmore's national power grid was to make use of the 120V and 60Hz electrical standard and all outlets were to make use of the Type-A and Type-B connectors. The standardization of the Ardmori power grid was part of the socialization of Ardmore that lasted from 1931 until 1945, with any and all elements of society that were deemed to be a facet of the former monarchy being either removed or adapted as needed.

In the years immediately after the Second Great War up until the late 1950s, the Ardmori government began to work on trying to figure out how to ensure energy self-sufficiency and to put an end to the dependency on coal imports which have resulted in the near-energy crisis that was experienced during the Second Great War. The [[atomic bombing of Cavosia]] had introduced to Ardmore the idea of nuclear power. Because of Ardmore's disinterest in getting involved in the affairs of the imperialistic powers, the government had no interest in {{wp|nuclear weapons}} but rather in the peaceful application of nuclear power. This was further spurred by the discovery of uranium ore close to the nations' sole mountain which helped in convincing the Board of Labor towards the idea of nuclear power being used to ensure energy self-sufficiency. In 1958, construction began on the nation's first nuclear power plant, the [[Dunval Nuclear Power Plant]], which was eventually completed in 1972 after multiple delays due to lack of material thanks to Ardmore's isolation. The Dunval power plant was nonetheless a tremendous success, with the vast majority of coal-based power plants getting phased out throughout the 1970s. The final coal power plant in Ardmore was eventually closed in 1997 after the opening of Ardmore's third nuclear power plant.

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