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Paul V was given sainthood by the Patrajan Church after the conclusion of the war against the Christian Latins and the still-pagan Greeks. Ironically, it was the Latins that were destroyed in the area, and the Greeks that were kept independent, but the extent of political affairs was made so that this was more of a relations victory for the Church, rather than a literal one. Saint King Paul V spent the rest of his life essentially consolidating the quickly-acquired Latin area and attempting to calm the populace into subjugation, even allowing them the keeping of a Consular system, though under a new leader loyal to him. With several Konsalar territories shrinking, the lone Consulate structure found itself with quick friends among the more antiquity-minded states within Patraja.

in 235 AC, Paul V died and was succeeded by his son, Mikael I, notable for a new form of crusade; an administrational crusade. Disgusted by the decades of flatfooted responses to the what he viewed as ancient, tired, and pagan-like political entities within Patraja, he sought to eliminate all presences of the old regimes from within the state. It was Mikael I who renamed the capital from Karinnja to Karneja - though this was not the same city or location known as today, but a name translated from the more ancient Latinic texts to the then-modern Patrajan tongue. Karinnja in Latinic-Slavic Patrajan essentially meant "Holy City of Gods," whilst the reinterpreted Karneja, in Medieval Patrajan, was more likely to be interpreted as "City of God." This hardline move made on the third day of Mikael I's reign was seen as emblematic of what was to come for the young ruler.

In 240 AC, Mikael I's war on Consulates and Konsal's became official, as he demanded the reorganization of the Konsalate of Mardin to the standards of medieval organization, along with access to the land for his own troops to expunge what was believed to be a pagans stronghold somewhere within Mardin's countryside. This anti-pagan push, not seen since the middle of the 2nd century, was noted in a fearful manner by Konsalar authorities, many of whom were shielding old pagan temples for both historical and political reasons. King Mikael I's request was denied on both counts, but the King entered the Konsal's territory anyway. Unprepared and caught by the surprise of a seemingly-disrespectful move by the king, the young 11 year old Konsal and his regency ordered the mobilization of troops against the King himself. This marked the start of the Patrajan Anti-Konsalar Wars - a small escapade of anti-pagan and anti-antiquarian battles and depositions that took place within the larger Latinic Wars. Tying the Anti-Konsalar Wars to the Latinic Wars is a controversial study topic within historical circles today, but it is generally accepted by historical study that the Konsal's and Consulate received much aid from Latinic tribes and states in their battles against their liege. Even still, King Mikael won the one battle of the first part of the so-called Anti-Konsalar Wars easily, and deposed the Konsal and reformed the Konsalate himself for a number of years, before handing control to his nephew, Duke Annus, in 243 AC.

As his last major act before his death, King Mikael I officially abolished the office of ''Repraesentativic Deoricom'', Representative to the Gods - or God himself, as it stood at the time, in 253 AC. Though the position had been unoccupied since the end of the Second Kingdom, it had remained allowed within the formation within the Third due to the non-political nature of it. However, Mikael I saw this as another pagan bring-over from the old regimes, and entirely annihiliated the unoccupied post, automatically announcing the transferral of national religious authority not to himself, but to the Bishop of Karneja, Rekilinos.

King Mikael I, already considered for Sainthood as his father had been before him, suddenly died in 255 AC along with his son, whose name remains unknown to scholars, under a suspicious circumstance of a raider attack from the north. The heir apparent was Duke Annus, who had been given the Duchy of Mardin by his uncle years prior. The new King Annus is thought to have been a middling and conniving King, mostly confined to the halls of the castle and not much more, delegating his duties to either his wife or his chancellors. There had reports, as well, that King Annus himself was mentally impaired for years past his coronation.

[[File:BattleOfLatinia.PNG|thumb|The only surviving Patrajan depiction of the Battle of Latinia. Artwork of the battle was ordered to be destroyed by the later Saint King Josip III.]]

A resumption of the Anti-Konsalar Wars began with the great-grandson of King Annus, King Ukrin, who had demanded the end of the Consulate of The Latins within Patraja in 332 AC and was, as before, denied by the territorial and permanently-occupied Latin tribes. Once more, as his many-greats uncle had before him, King Ukrin invaded the Latins to the north, but found much more difficulty with the war. In this, the Anti-Konsalar Wars and the Latinic Wars temporarily merge; seeing their brothers in danger, and a rival power to the south in danger of gaining more hold over a Latin region, the northern Latin Kingdom of Maiora declared war upon Patraja, and joined in union with the Consulate. What had started as a small put-down conflict for King Ukrin had turned into an all-out war; one that Patraja was not prepared for. The smaller and differently-equipped army of Patraja in the north, out of their league for the size of the situation, attempted a retreat southward to gather more troops in more favorable territory. However, the Latin kingdoms and consulates had learned from their previous blunder, and essentially ran through the Patrajans with quicker, armored horses and light infantry that far-outnumbered the troops. In a flash of only two months, the entire northern legion-group of Patraja was wiped out, and Patraja's century-old conquest of neighboring northern Latins was lost in battle, along with additional territory. The Battle of Latinia, as it was called by the Latins, was a completely shameful defeat for Patraja, and contained perhaps the worst military blunder in the nations early medieval history. Multiple smaller battles occurred, wherein Patraja won but one, and remained demoralized and burnt-out in the rest.

In 335 AC, King Ukrin accepted a humiliating peace treaty where the conquests of 212 AC were all entirely reversed. An attempt was made to salvage the Consulate of Tibernis as a partially-loyal pseudo-state, but it seemed lost forever, made dependent on the Kingdom of Maiora after the war. Even worse, small additional swathes of Northern Patraja were added to the Kingdom of Maiora, shrinking Patraja to its smallest size since Saint King Paul V's conquests. The steady income of gold from the Greek Duchy of Amarkon was also cut off by order of the Kingdom of Maiora, and to the ecstatic agreement of Amarkon's leader. In absolute shame, King Ukrin became the first king in Patrajan history to abdicate, a mere 4 months after the peace was formed. In his place, the crown was claimed not even by the man's direct son, then-aged only 7, but by his cousin, and direct descendent of the early-dead King Mikael I, Count Josep III. King Josep III ordered himself crowned on the northern border, facing ardently towards the Greeks and Latins. During the ceremony, wherein the crown was presented by the Bishop of Karneja, Josip III declared a "period of national religious revival" in response to the loss, labelling the then-Tinnular Christian Latins as heretics for their lack of Catholic faith. It is unknown to this day what exactly separated the Tinnular Christian belief from the Catholic, or even if the difference was made up by Josip III, but the new King continued in his criticism of the Latins as heretics nonetheless. Four days later, Josip III was ordained as a Saint by the same Bishop of Karneja, in what is supposed to be due to a deal made between the King to restore the Consulate as a theology in exchange for religious support.

From 335 AC to about 345 AC, Patraja was built up once more, refocused into reliance on its southern regions, rather than the more-fertile and open northern plains. Planners and national coordinators of the time, often referred to as the "economics of the Patrajan medieval period," gained such an influence in the King's court during this period that there were a record number of secret societies, both found and never found, formed from the wealth and success of the planners. The most famous one, the Coordinators League of Stonemasons, still exists today as a closed club. It was initially founded as a united front of individual stonemasons and national planners to coordinate on the building of churches, refineries, and other buildings.

In 346 AC, Josip III declared war on the Consulate of Tibernis and its master-state, the Kingdom of Maiora, along with, unrelatedly, the Duchy of Amarkon, then-called the Duchies of Amarkis, after a recent regime change. Josip III's goals were as lofty as his promises of religious revival on his crowning a decade prior; he wished to occupy the entirety of all three entities. To say that this level of conquest unusual for the time would be to put it lightly, and many historians, including Professor Markin Totravki from the Institute of Patrajan National History, agree that this likely was not the actual goal of Josip III, but a rallying-cry for the nation to get behind. The monumental loss of King Ukrin was still felt, after all, very recently and within the generation that was then fighting for Patraja. "All the young men that had been given swords for an essential continuation of the war," explains Totravki, "were mostly children who had heard terrible news of the defeat of the undefeatable Christian kingdom a mere decade prior...it was necessary to tell them this conquest was different and was not a repetition of [the] failed war a decade before that."

As Josip III personally led troops across the border and straight to Tibernis, the Kingdom of Maiora symbolically protested the war itself by having its Church decanonize Saint King Paul V as a saint. In response, King Josip III dedicated the first battle, the Battle of Tibernio, to Paul V, and won it handily, capturing the capital of the Consulate. After the war, Tibernio was renamed to Paulinios, in honor of Paul V. Many writings within the court of Josip III note the mans brazen pettiness in both religious in foreign affairs, and his treatment of medieval-era proto-public relations shows this quite easily.

After the victory in Tibernis, Josip III got involved in several minor battles, wherein he took what was reported as three arrow shots to various parts of the body, all of which miraculously did not cause serious injury or posthumous infection. One arrow even landed inches from puncturing the mans ribcage and entering his lungs.

===Northern Latin Imperial Occupation, The Occupied Duchies, and Minor Independence Periods [829 AC - ]===

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 Paul V was given sainthood by the Patrajan Church after the conclusion of the war against the Christian Latins and the still-pagan Greeks. Ironically, it was the Latins that were destroyed in the area, and the Greeks that were kept independent, but the extent of political affairs was made so that this was more of a relations victory for the Church, rather than a literal one. Saint King Paul V spent the rest of his life essentially consolidating the quickly-acquired Latin area and attempting to calm the populace into subjugation, even allowing them the keeping of a Consular system, though under a new leader loyal to him. With several Konsalar territories shrinking, the lone Consulate structure found itself with quick friends among the more antiquity-minded states within Patraja.
+in 235 AC, Paul V died and was succeeded by his son, Mikael I, notable for a new form of crusade; an administrational crusade. Disgusted by the decades of flatfooted responses to the what he viewed as ancient, tired, and pagan-like political entities within Patraja, he sought to eliminate all presences of the old regimes from within the state. It was Mikael I who renamed the capital from Karinnja to Karneja - though this was not the same city or location known as today, but a name translated from the more ancient Latinic texts to the then-modern Patrajan tongue. Karinnja in Latinic-Slavic Patrajan essentially meant "Holy City of Gods," whilst the reinterpreted Karneja, in Medieval Patrajan, was more likely to be interpreted as "City of God." This hardline move made on the third day of Mikael I's reign was seen as emblematic of what was to come for the young ruler.
+In 240 AC, Mikael I's war on Consulates and Konsal's became official, as he demanded the reorganization of the Konsalate of Mardin to the standards of medieval organization, along with access to the land for his own troops to expunge what was believed to be a pagans stronghold somewhere within Mardin's countryside. This anti-pagan push, not seen since the middle of the 2nd century, was noted in a fearful manner by Konsalar authorities, many of whom were shielding old pagan temples for both historical and political reasons. King Mikael I's request was denied on both counts, but the King entered the Konsal's territory anyway. Unprepared and caught by the surprise of a seemingly-disrespectful move by the king, the young 11 year old Konsal and his regency ordered the mobilization of troops against the King himself. This marked the start of the Patrajan Anti-Konsalar Wars - a small escapade of anti-pagan and anti-antiquarian battles and depositions that took place within the larger Latinic Wars. Tying the Anti-Konsalar Wars to the Latinic Wars is a controversial study topic within historical circles today, but it is generally accepted by historical study that the Konsal's and Consulate received much aid from Latinic tribes and states in their battles against their liege. Even still, King Mikael won the one battle of the first part of the so-called Anti-Konsalar Wars easily, and deposed the Konsal and reformed the Konsalate himself for a number of years, before handing control to his nephew, Duke Annus, in 243 AC.
+As his last major act before his death, King Mikael I officially abolished the office of ''Repraesentativic Deoricom'', Representative to the Gods - or God himself, as it stood at the time, in 253 AC. Though the position had been unoccupied since the end of the Second Kingdom, it had remained allowed within the formation within the Third due to the non-political nature of it. However, Mikael I saw this as another pagan bring-over from the old regimes, and entirely annihiliated the unoccupied post, automatically announcing the transferral of national religious authority not to himself, but to the Bishop of Karneja, Rekilinos.
+King Mikael I, already considered for Sainthood as his father had been before him, suddenly died in 255 AC along with his son, whose name remains unknown to scholars, under a suspicious circumstance of a raider attack from the north. The heir apparent was Duke Annus, who had been given the Duchy of Mardin by his uncle years prior. The new King Annus is thought to have been a middling and conniving King, mostly confined to the halls of the castle and not much more, delegating his duties to either his wife or his chancellors. There had reports, as well, that King Annus himself was mentally impaired for years past his coronation.
+[[File:BattleOfLatinia.PNG|thumb|The only surviving Patrajan depiction of the Battle of Latinia. Artwork of the battle was ordered to be destroyed by the later Saint King Josip III.]]
+A resumption of the Anti-Konsalar Wars began with the great-grandson of King Annus, King Ukrin, who had demanded the end of the Consulate of The Latins within Patraja in 332 AC and was, as before, denied by the territorial and permanently-occupied Latin tribes. Once more, as his many-greats uncle had before him, King Ukrin invaded the Latins to the north, but found much more difficulty with the war. In this, the Anti-Konsalar Wars and the Latinic Wars temporarily merge; seeing their brothers in danger, and a rival power to the south in danger of gaining more hold over a Latin region, the northern Latin Kingdom of Maiora declared war upon Patraja, and joined in union with the Consulate. What had started as a small put-down conflict for King Ukrin had turned into an all-out war; one that Patraja was not prepared for. The smaller and differently-equipped army of Patraja in the north, out of their league for the size of the situation, attempted a retreat southward to gather more troops in more favorable territory. However, the Latin kingdoms and consulates had learned from their previous blunder, and essentially ran through the Patrajans with quicker, armored horses and light infantry that far-outnumbered the troops. In a flash of only two months, the entire northern legion-group of Patraja was wiped out, and Patraja's century-old conquest of neighboring northern Latins was lost in battle, along with additional territory. The Battle of Latinia, as it was called by the Latins, was a completely shameful defeat for Patraja, and contained perhaps the worst military blunder in the nations early medieval history. Multiple smaller battles occurred, wherein Patraja won but one, and remained demoralized and burnt-out in the rest.
+In 335 AC, King Ukrin accepted a humiliating peace treaty where the conquests of 212 AC were all entirely reversed. An attempt was made to salvage the Consulate of Tibernis as a partially-loyal pseudo-state, but it seemed lost forever, made dependent on the Kingdom of Maiora after the war. Even worse, small additional swathes of Northern Patraja were added to the Kingdom of Maiora, shrinking Patraja to its smallest size since Saint King Paul V's conquests. The steady income of gold from the Greek Duchy of Amarkon was also cut off by order of the Kingdom of Maiora, and to the ecstatic agreement of Amarkon's leader. In absolute shame, King Ukrin became the first king in Patrajan history to abdicate, a mere 4 months after the peace was formed. In his place, the crown was claimed not even by the man's direct son, then-aged only 7, but by his cousin, and direct descendent of the early-dead King Mikael I, Count Josep III. King Josep III ordered himself crowned on the northern border, facing ardently towards the Greeks and Latins. During the ceremony, wherein the crown was presented by the Bishop of Karneja, Josip III declared a "period of national religious revival" in response to the loss, labelling the then-Tinnular Christian Latins as heretics for their lack of Catholic faith. It is unknown to this day what exactly separated the Tinnular Christian belief from the Catholic, or even if the difference was made up by Josip III, but the new King continued in his criticism of the Latins as heretics nonetheless. Four days later, Josip III was ordained as a Saint by the same Bishop of Karneja, in what is supposed to be due to a deal made between the King to restore the Consulate as a theology in exchange for religious support.
+From 335 AC to about 345 AC, Patraja was built up once more, refocused into reliance on its southern regions, rather than the more-fertile and open northern plains. Planners and national coordinators of the time, often referred to as the "economics of the Patrajan medieval period," gained such an influence in the King's court during this period that there were a record number of secret societies, both found and never found, formed from the wealth and success of the planners. The most famous one, the Coordinators League of Stonemasons, still exists today as a closed club. It was initially founded as a united front of individual stonemasons and national planners to coordinate on the building of churches, refineries, and other buildings.
+In 346 AC, Josip III declared war on the Consulate of Tibernis and its master-state, the Kingdom of Maiora, along with, unrelatedly, the Duchy of Amarkon, then-called the Duchies of Amarkis, after a recent regime change. Josip III's goals were as lofty as his promises of religious revival on his crowning a decade prior; he wished to occupy the entirety of all three entities. To say that this level of conquest unusual for the time would be to put it lightly, and many historians, including Professor Markin Totravki from the Institute of Patrajan National History, agree that this likely was not the actual goal of Josip III, but a rallying-cry for the nation to get behind. The monumental loss of King Ukrin was still felt, after all, very recently and within the generation that was then fighting for Patraja. "All the young men that had been given swords for an essential continuation of the war," explains Totravki, "were mostly children who had heard terrible news of the defeat of the undefeatable Christian kingdom a mere decade prior...it was necessary to tell them this conquest was different and was not a repetition of [the] failed war a decade before that."
+As Josip III personally led troops across the border and straight to Tibernis, the Kingdom of Maiora symbolically protested the war itself by having its Church decanonize Saint King Paul V as a saint. In response, King Josip III dedicated the first battle, the Battle of Tibernio, to Paul V, and won it handily, capturing the capital of the Consulate. After the war, Tibernio was renamed to Paulinios, in honor of Paul V. Many writings within the court of Josip III note the mans brazen pettiness in both religious in foreign affairs, and his treatment of medieval-era proto-public relations shows this quite easily.
+After the victory in Tibernis, Josip III got involved in several minor battles, wherein he took what was reported as three arrow shots to various parts of the body, all of which miraculously did not cause serious injury or posthumous infection. One arrow even landed inches from puncturing the mans ribcage and entering his lungs.
 ===Northern Latin Imperial Occupation, The Occupied Duchies, and Minor Independence Periods [829 AC - ]===
 ''Did your country ever have a period of significant decline or internal struggle?''

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