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The people of Ardmore, known as Ardmoris, are considered members of the [[Garán people]], sharing this identity with the people of [[Carolina]]. Much of their heritage results from the blending of [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] and [[Gothic people|Gothic]] cultural traditions that occurred in Carolina and adjoining areas in the years leading up to the collapse of [[Great Levantia]]. Garáns are thought to have invaded Ardmore and settled it in the mid-6th century, though no unified Garán polity emerged on the main island of Great Ardmore; loose alliances of mainland cities and tribes were formed with the newly established Garán cities and tribes on the island. The area was briefly incorporated into the early [[Holy Levantine Empire|Levantine Empire]] and subsequent [[Southern Kingdom of the Levantines]], but fell out of Carolina's orbit and subsequently became an independent Christian kingdom in 1004. Its people retained cultural and economic ties with the mainland while beginning to spread out throughout the remaining islands of what became known as the Ardmori Archipelago, settling [[New Ardmore]] by the late 11th century and displacing the Gothic people living there. At the end of the medieval period, Ardmore was a relatively centralized power, allowing it to become a major colonial power during the age of exploration. Largely unaffected by the sectarian disputes that caused the [[Great Confessional War]], Ardmore became prosperous in the 16th and 17th centuries, with its colonial holdings greatly expanding due to the [[Pharisedom|increased number of Protestant settlers looking to go abroad]]. 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 [[New Ardmore]], which existed briefly as a {{wp|constitutional republic}} under the personal leadership of the last Prince-Regent of the Kingdom of Ardmore, and subsequently as a protectorate 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 form of government, Ardmore has been making an effort to more closely align with Levantia in recent decades.

Ardmore is comprised primarily of five islands, the largest of which - Great Ardmore - comprises the vast majority of the nation's land mass and contains nearly all of its population. It sits entirely in the [[Odoneru Ocean]], and to its east it shelters the Mirana Sound.

 

The Aciriani nation experiences mainly three kinds of climates; in the southwestern Griffe peninsula a marine climate can be experienced, making the summers warm and humid with cool and damp winters. Rainfall is common during both seasons, and during summer the temperatures can go up to 30°C, and during the winter it can reach as low as 15°C. The mean average temperature of the year is 11°C. Majority of the nation experiences a lessened maritime climate, resulting in hot summers and cold winters. In the mountainous Montanaro region of the southeast a subarctic climate is experienced, making the region notably colder than rest of the nation. Summers are short and mild, while the winters are cold and snowfall is common. During summer fog is a common sight in the valleys when moisture coming from the ocean gets trapped between them.

As [[Great Levantia]] entered terminal decline, the region of what is today [[Carolina]] became a pourous frontier which saw the emergence of the [[Garán people]] as a blend of invading [[Gothic people]] and local [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] and Istroyans who had been resettled from [[Tromarine]] centuries before. Continued invasions of Goths lead many borderlanders to seek new lands elsewhere, and the first Garán warbands are thought to have arrived in Great Ardmore in the late 400s in small numbers, serving as mercenaries by the coastal cities against the Ardmen tribes in the interior. A major invasion of the island by Garáns occurred at some point in the mid-6th century, with the lightly populated island easily overcome by the numerous mainland invaders. The Ardmen and Latins, long thought by historians to have been slaughtered, were likely incorporated into the new social system, and many Ardmoris today are thought to have some descent from Ardmen.