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The '''Vandarch Canal Crisis''' was | The '''Vandarch Canal Crisis''' was a political crisis and, depending on the source, civil war which stemmed from a revolutionary separatist movement in [[Faneria]] from late December, 1991 through January, 1992. Centered around the Transisthmus region of Faneria, the conflict primarily occurred in the provinces of [[Culriocha]] and [[Ereglas]], the latter of which bordered the International Zone surrounding the [[Grand Vandarch Canal]]. The Ereglasian Isthmus had been the subject of major territorial changes following the end of the [[Second Great War]], leading to local resentment against the Fanerian government and the League of nations in general. In addition, Culriocha's distinct, [[Culture of Faneria#Culriocha|non-Fhainnin]] culture, regional language, and historic independence from Faneria prior to the [[West Vandarch War]] had been a long-term source of seditious movements and occasional attempts at secession, the most recent of which had occurred during the [[Rose Revolution]] in 1942. The Crisis involved an armed uprising of Culriochans and aligned Ereglasians seeking a range of goals from regional autonomy like that held by bordering [[Namhe|Namhe Province]] to outright independence; this uprising and the subsequent massive retaliation by the [[Office of the National Army (Faneria)|Fhainnin Army]] caused a three-week international panic, as it was believed by many political leaders at the time that the uprising may have been deliberately provoked as a prelude to a military seizure of the Canal by the Fhainnin government under the nationalist [[Gwyn Feawyr]]. | ||
After the launching of an armed rebellion, revolutionary forces assaulted the Canal Zone, prompting an international scare and massive retaliation by both the Fanerian and other governments with interests in the Vandarch. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
By the end of the Second Great War, Faneria had broken ground on a canal in the | By the end of the Second Great War, Faneria had broken ground on a canal in the Ereglasian Isthmus intended to allow its warships in the Vandarch to traverse rapidly to the [[Sea of Nordska|Nordska]] and [[Kilikas Sea|Kilikas]] Seas. At the end of the war, the canal and several dozen miles both east and west were ceded by Faneria to the League of Nations as an international mandate. As a direct result, many local Fanerian citizens were forced to vacate their homes or remain in the International Zone, which retained relative ease-of-travel with Faneria on both its borders but created numerous legal issues with the growing populations of [[Grand Vandarch Canal#Canal Born Children|stateless people]] While Faneria practices citizenship-by-application, a lack of citizenship made legal documentation a complex issue and the Canal became populated by a number of varying communities. | ||
Nationalist radicalization remained an issue in Faneria after the Great War, with numerous terror attacks and political scandals as the right-Starkist wing that lobbied for continued hostilities with the Levantine Union was slowly purged from government. The most notable incident of these was the [[Bonn Hotel Bombing]] in 1956, when militants from the paramilitary group [[GaelWind]] attacked an Aenglish-owned hotel in [[Sethsport]]. However, Ereglas and Acanya remained a hotbed of grassroots anti-League, anti-foreign sentiment due to both deliberate efforts by GaelWind operatives and the difficulties caused by the relocations. The Fanerian government failed categorically to address the issues of the local communities, concerned with more intensive separatism in [[Lyukquar]] and western Culriocha. | Nationalist radicalization remained an issue in Faneria after the Great War, with numerous terror attacks and political scandals as the right-Starkist wing that lobbied for continued hostilities with the Levantine Union was slowly purged from government. The most notable incident of these was the [[Bonn Hotel Bombing]] in 1956, when militants from the paramilitary group [[GaelWind]] attacked an Aenglish-owned hotel in [[Sethsport]]. However, Ereglas and Acanya remained a hotbed of grassroots anti-League, anti-foreign sentiment due to both deliberate efforts by GaelWind operatives and the difficulties caused by the relocations. The Fanerian government failed categorically to address the issues of the local communities, concerned with more intensive separatism in [[Lyukquar]] and western Culriocha. | ||