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|national_languages = {{wp|English language|Ænglish}}

   | 61.1% {{wp|Anglican|Anglicanism}}

   | 1.6% [[Irreligious]]

Malentina was historically a notable [[North Songun civilization]] before their collapse. Although severely hurt by the collapse, Malentina came out of it in better shape than most others, in large part thanks to it's relative security from [[Zurgite Varshan|Varshani]] [[The Hunt (Varshan)|Hunts]]. During the 18th century Malentina became a somewhat important colony for the [[Ænglish people]] (Ardmore?) as they settled the mostly unsettled, or some argue abandoned, island of [[Hileenkop]]. This would lead to numerous conflicts between the Ænglish settlers and the [[Maaleen People|Maaleen]] and [[Tinuud People|Tinuud]] natives known as the [[Canoe Conflict (Malentina)|Canoe Conflict]].

Most of the nations struggles are rooted in the demographic conflict between the Ænglish and native populations. Ever since the genocide of the Starlit Revolution Ænglish nations like Arcerion and Alstin have held a particular investment in ensuring the local Neo-Waakabii extremist cells are destroyed post-haste. Because of these foreign interests it has been commonplace for the last 30 years for Malentines to be the target for foreign airstrikes. In recent years, however, Malentina has seen a shift in their approach to local insurgencies. With military assets provided by Tierrador they have started cracking down on terrorist cells on their own, while at the same time distancing themselves from Arcerion. These actions have caused a diplomatic incident surrounding Malentina which risks becoming a flashpoint for a power struggle over who holds influence over Malentina.

Malentina is a somewhat modern name taken from the term commonly used in {{wp|English language|Ænglish}} to refer to the tribes living on the islands that the nation now encompasses, ''Malentinu''. This term developed from combining the two most common tribe names, the ''Maaleens'' and the ''Tinuuds''. The name was a way for the native people to "take back" the lands that ones belonged to them alone from the colonizing Levantine population. There are still a small minority of the Ænglish white population who use the old colonial name of [[Pertooluna]], which is doubly ironic as the name is a butchering of the name of the Cartadanian settlement of Puerto Luna.

By the early 1500's, the mainland was in ruins and the first attempts at raiding the islands were made by the new Arzali invaders. These proved to mostly be a failure, as the warrior tribes of the islands proved themselves a tough foe. These efforts would cause the islanders to grow much more militarized again, which would prove to be a far more dangerous threat to the seven cities than the invaders.

The timely arrival of a new group of foreign sailors would've been met with exceeding hostility if they had first landed anywhere else among the three islands. But the empty lands they found only had a few small tribes inhabiting them. These tribes were suspicious of the strange foreigners but would slowly be convinced to work with them. These small tribes have very little history that survived to modern day, leaving their exact origin a mystery. A missing piece of history that would likely not matter at all if it wasn't for the 35% of modern Malentine tracing their origins to these tribe, mainly among the Aenglistizo and Costizo population.

For the final 10 years of the 17th century cartadanian settlers would be the first Occidental nation to inhabit the islands, building the first settlement of Salcojina, which mostly served as a trading post. While there is consensus on the native tribes being somewhat hostile at first the historic claims that a very gregarious expedition leader convinced them to quickly build a strong trading relation is somewhat disputed. In Malentina the more commonly held view among both scholars and citizens is that three translators who had been allowed to visit the foreign Occidental lands convinced the various tribes of the vast wealth they may be able to achieve by working with the colonials. Either way the agreements made between the first settlers and the eastern tribes would lead to friendly relations that would last for over a century.  

Although the western islands remained hostile several new settlements would be established on the island of Hileenkopp, known by the settlers as "La Isla Hallare". All but one of these settlements would be established by sarpic settlers, the only exception being a single coscovian settlement on the islands northern tip (naming the islands Sáfach). These settlements would bring wealth and power to the eastern tribes, who united into a single confederation to protect themselves from the hostile acts of the Malenti tribes.

A notable shift would start to occur around the year 1750, as many of the people who migrated to the island would not be of sarpic or coscivian origin. Instead the island was quickly developing a large Ænglish community.

A previous small trading post, the town of Puerto Luna would become the centre of the islands development after gold discovered in the surrounding hills. This would push the already notable migration to the island into overdrive, especially among the Ænglish. As a result by 1777 the town of only about 2000 had grown to over 50 000 citizens in less than 20 years, becoming the largest city with an Ænglish majority.  

In the 1780s and 1790s Ardmore was starting to gain an interest in expanding into Crona. Although the gold rush had started to normalize at this point the Ardmori crown payed a significant sum to Cartadania as well as the various trading companies who actually owned the settlements to gain control of the island.   

Ænglish are not as good at dealing with the natives as Cartadania. Although they are way better at getting rid of them.

Purchase of colony is almost immediately followed by conflicts between settlers and natives. This quickly ignites into full blown war. Although there are short periods of peace during this time, most of it is made up of various conflicts against the natives. Natives while mostly being on the loosing end don't get crushed in large parts thanks to successfully staying mostly unified against the foreign threat. A lesson learned from the Arzali invasion and Haven's Fall, which at this point is among the most important legends in the Malentinan culture.

Natives and Ænglish make an unease peace, although incidents of violence between the two continued consistently through the period.

* Peoples of mixed origins, like Aenglistizos and Costizos. While most can speak at least aenglish these groups are typically multilingual and may in addition speak any combination of Maalit, Tiuu or local dialects of coscivian and cartadanian.

* Peoples of mainly Occidental origin such, mostly made up of Aenglish. These mostly only speak Aenglish, sometimes in addition to another Occidental language.

* Peoples of native origin who speak Maaleen, who may know Aenglish or some minor native languages.

* Peoples of native origin who speak Tiuu, who usually know Aenglish and some minor native languages..

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Most of Malentina follows some variation of the Carnish Anglican church. Although the largest portion follows traditional Anglicanism, more than half of all anglican followers are part of smaller divergent branches, only one of which, the Anglic-Samuelites, is even close to comparing to the main branch.

Outside of the Anglican followers, the nation is mostly split between the various native beliefs. These beliefs developed mostly separately from the mainland religions because of the isolation of the island tribes. Wakabiism is therefore a group of beliefs and ideas only found on the islands, although it shares many similarities to other animist concepts of the coastal regions surrounding the Malentine Sea.

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