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In the early part of the 19th century, most of the former Pelaxian Empire overseas disintegrated. A tenuous balance between liberal and conservative forces was struck in the establishment of a republic in Pelaxia; this period began in 1852 and ended in 1922. Then came the dictatorship of General Benedicto Álvaro Camargo (1922-1932). His government inaugurated a period ruled by a militarist party, the Restauración Nacional Party, up until 1957. From 1922 the country experienced rapid economic growth in the 1940s and early 1950s. With the death of Federico Pedro Olmos in November 1956 Pelaxia returned to the Federal Republic. With a fresh Constitution voted in 1958.

=Antiquity (600 BC - 500 AD)=

The Cognati (from Latin: Cognatus) were a set of people that Caphirian sources identified with that name in the wester coast of Sarpedon over the Kindred Sea, at least from the 6th century BC. The Caphirian sources also use the term Pelagi to refer to the Cognati. The term Cognati, as used by the ancient authors, had two distinct meanings. One, more general, referred to all the populations of the cognatish valley without regard to ethnic differences. The other, more restricted ethnic sense, refers to the people living in the western and southern coasts of the Cognatish Valley, which by the 6th century BC had absorbed cultural influences from Vallos. This pre-Caphiravian cultural group spoke the Cognatish language from the 7th to the 1st century BC. Cognati society was divided into different classes, including kings or chieftains (Latin: "regulus"), nobles, priests, artisans and slaves. Cognati aristocracy, often called a "senate" by the ancient sources, met in a council of nobles. Kings or chieftains would maintain their forces through a system of obligation or vassalage that the Caphirians termed "fides".The Cognati adopted wine and olives from the Vallosi. Horse breeding was particularly important to the Cognati and their nobility. Mining was also very important for their economy, especially the silver mines, the iron mines in the Montian valleys, as well as the exploitation of tin and copper deposits. They produced fine metalwork and high quality iron weapons such as the falcata.

Around 4th Century BC, Caphiria sent Caphirian General Ottiano to conquer Cognatia. General Ottiano subsequently defeated the Cognati tribes and conquered Montia. After the Cognati defeat, the valleys were divided into two major provinces, Pelagia Orientis and Pelagia Occidentis. In 197 BC, the Cognati tribes revolted once again in the P. Orientis province. After securing these regions, Caphiria invaded and conquered Albalitoria and Cognatilitoria. The Caphirians fought a long and drawn out campaign for the conquest of Albalitoria. Wars and campaigns in the northwest coast of the Cognati valleys would continue until 16 BC, when the final rebellions of the Litorian Wars were defeated.

Pelaxian Leopard.jpg|Cognati jaguar statuette, 2nd to 4th centuries BC.

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Detalle de una reconstrucción de inscripciones celtíberas.jpg|Reconstruction of Cognati scripture

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Due to their military qualities, as of the 5th century BCE Cognatish soldiers were frequently deployed in battles in Caphiria.

==Caphirian Pelaxia==

[[File:Roman bridge at night - Córdoba, Spain - DSC07251.JPG|thumb|Caphirian bridge at night in Soratia]]

Throughout the centuries of Caphirian rule over the provinces of Pelaxia, Caphirian customs, religion, laws and the general Caphirian lifestyle, gained much favour in the indigenous population, which was compounded by a substantial minority of Caphirian immigrants, which eventually formed a distinct Pelaxio-Caphirian culture. Several factors aided the process of Caphirianization:

* Creation of civil infrastructure, including bridges, road networks and urban sanitation.

* Commercial interaction within regions and the wider Caphirian world.

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* The spread of the hierarchical Caphirian administrative system throughout the Pelaxian provinces.

* Growth of Caphirian aristocratic land holdings (latifundia)

====Military projects====

The military works were the first type of infrastructure built by the Caphirians in Pelaxia, due to the proximity of the valley with the Acirians and Vallosi. The Caphirian fort was the main focus of military strategy passive or active. They could be constructed for short term temporary occupation, tasked with some immediate military purpose, or for garrisoning the troops during the winter, in these cases is built with mortar and wood. They could also be permanent, in order to subdue or control an area in the long term, for which stone was often used to build fortifications. Many camps became stable population centers, eventually becoming real cities. Once a developed into a stable colony or camp, the need to defend these nuclei involved the construction of powerful walls. The Caphirians pioneered the poliorcetic tradition (siege warfare tactics), and over the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, erected substantial walls, usually with the technique of double facing stones with a filling inside of mortar, stone and unique Caphirian concrete. The thickness of this could range from four to even ten meters. There are notable present day remains of Caphirian walls in '''Babafor, Foronafor, Terrafor, Tarabefa, Montia, Albalitor, Villa Septintria and Colonia.'''

Roman Wall - Empúries 2005-03-27.jpg|Remains of Caphirian wall in Las Jusonias.

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Roman camp A.JPG|Caphirian camp in Villa Septintria.

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====Civil projects====

The ancient Caphirian civilization is known as the great builder of infrastructure. It was the first civilization which dedicated itself to a serious and determined effort for this kind of civil work as a basis for settlement of their populations, and the preservation of its military and economic domination over the vast territory of its empire. The works of most importance are roads, bridges and aqueducts.

Ancient_Roman_theater_in_Cesaraugusta.jpg|Remains of Caphirian theatre in Colonia.

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Capernaum roman olive press by David Shankbone.jpg|Caphirian olive press in Jumilla.

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Either within or outside the urban environment, these facilities became vital for the function of the city and its economy, allowing it to supply the most essential necessities; either water via aqueducts or food, supplies and goods through the efficient network of roads and bridges. '''In addition, any city of at least average importance had a sewer system for the drainage of waste water and to prevent tropical rains flooding the streets.''' Infrastructure for civilian use was built with intensity, roads that ran through the valley joining Villa Septintria to Termia and Albalitor to Montia: covering the coastal Kindred Sea through the already established routes. Along them a booming trade flowed, encouraging political stability of the territory over several centuries.

==Kosal-Caphirian Wars==

[[File:Eurico, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Evaristo, King of the Kosali|303x303px]]

===Caphirian recession and Kosal expansion===

~~[[File:Eurico, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Evaristo, King of the Kosali]]~~

In the mid 5th Century CE., the Caphirian Republic would eventually face internal pressure from ambitious leaders such as Luccino Capontinus and Iscallio Maristo, as contention for leadership caused a number of small fights among the ambitious youth and the elder aristocracy. The fighting would culminate with a five year civil war, known now as the War of the Republic, that left 120,000 people dead. The war was in such a frenzy that by the time it had ended, there was no decisive victor and as a consequence, the Republic was on the verge of total collapse.

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In 484 the Kosal established Agrila as the capital of their kingdom. Successive Kosal kings ruled Agrila as patricians who held imperial commissions to govern in the name of the Caphirian Consul. In 585 the Kosal conquered the Losa Kingdom of Montia, and thus controlled a third of Pelaxia.

[[File:El_rey_Don_Pelayo_en_Covadonga_(Museo_del_Prado).jpg|thumb|Columbio, from a 12th-century [[illustrated manuscript]]|left|421x421px]]

=====Kingdom of Agrila=====

The Agrila Kingdom (Latin: Regnum Agrili) was a kingdom that occupied what is now western Pelaxia from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the successor states to the Caphiravian presence in the Province, it was originally created by the settlement of the Kosali under King Magda in Agrila.The Kingdom maintained independence from the Caphiravian Empire, whose attempts to re-establish authority in Pelaxia were only partially successful. Under King Evaristo - who eliminated the status of imperial commissions - a triumphal advance of the Kosali began. Alarmed at Kosali expansion from Ficetia after victory over the Caphirian armies at Cakia in 479, the Consul sent a fresh army against Evaristo. The Caphirian army was crushed in battle nearby and Evaristo then captured Soratia and secured all of Pelaxian Valley.

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=====Kosali Conquest of Albalitor=====

~~[[File:El_rey_Don_Pelayo_en_Covadonga_(Museo_del_Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Columbio, from a 12th-century [[illustrated manuscript]]]]~~

Kosal monarch Columbio founded the Kingdom of Albalitor in 618, after he expelled the Klis form its capital and harassed Rastri and Rati settlements in the coastal strip over the Kindred Sea.

The Albalitorian kings were happy to make peace with the Sarpic when it suited them, particularly if it left them free to pursue their other enemies, the Merquines. Thus Dadario (757–68) killed 40,000 Sarpics but also defeated the Meriquines and Ciro (774–83) made peace with the Sarpics. Under King Radamancio I (791–842), the kingdom was firmly established.

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=Caphirian Reconquest (500 to 1485)=

===Middle Ages===

====Pelaxia in the Early Middle Ages====

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While some of the "Free Communities" (Comunidades Libres, i.e. Montia, Cevedo, and Bajofort) were Imperolibertos the Castro-Brine still claimed authority over some villages and much of the surrounding land. While Cevedo was Imperoliberti in 1240, the castle of Nueva Brine was built in 1244 to help control Lake Lucrecia and restrict the neighboring Forest Communities. In 1273 the rights to the Comunidades were sold by a cadet branch of the Habsburgs to the head of the family, Laín II. Laín II was therefore the ruler of all the Imperoliberti communities as well as the lands that he ruled as a Castro-Brine.

Laín II instituted a strict rule in his homelands and raised the taxes tremendously to finance wars and further territorial acquisitions. As king, he finally had also become the direct liege lord of the Comunidades Libres, which thus saw their previous independence curtailed. On the April 16, 1291 Laín bought all the rights over the town of Lucrecia and the abbey estates in Bajofort from Abbey. The Comunidades saw their trade route over Lake Lucrecia cut off and feared losing their independence. When Laín died on July 15, 1291 the Comunidades prepared to defend themselves. On August 1, 1291 a League was made between the Comunidades Libres for mutual defense against a common enemy.

===The 14th century===

With the opening of the Gastian Pass in the 13th century, the territory of Central Pelaxia, primarily the valleys of Montia, had gained great strategical importance and was granted Imperoliberti by the Horiz monarchs of Agrila. This became the nucleus of the Montian Confederacy, which during the 1330s to 1350s grew to incorporate its core of "eleven provinces"

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Initially in 1469, Lord Warden Emigdio of Castro-Brine of Albalitor assigned his possessions in the Termia as a fiefdom to the Duke of Barakaldo, Tristán, to have them protected better against the expansion of the Montian Confederacy. Tristán's involvement west of the Confederacy gave him no reason to attack the confederates as Emigdio had wanted, but his embargo politics against several confederate communes, directed by his reeve Pedro de Goito, prompted these to turn to Agrila for help. Tristán's expansionist strategy suffered a first setback in his politics when his attack on the Archbishopric of Cuenca failed after the unsuccessful Siege of Gandía (1474–75).

In a second phase, Emigdio sought to achieve a peace agreement with the Montian confederates, which eventually was concluded in Agrila in 1474. He wanted to buy back his Termia possessions from Tristán, which the latter refused. Shortly afterwards, de Goito was captured and executed by decapitation in Termia, and the Monts, united with the Termia cities and Emigdio of Castro-Brine in an "anti-Barakaldo league", conquered part of the Barakaldian land when they won the Battle of Alcoy in November 1474. The next year, Agrilan forces conquered and ravaged Vadia, which belonged to the Duchy of Savria, who was allied with Tristán. In 1476 Tristán retaliated and marched to Jumilla, which belonged to Didac of Savria, but which had recently been taken by the Confederates, where he had the garrison hanged or drowned in the lake despite their capitulation. When the Montian confederate forces arrived a few days later, he was defeated in the Battle of Jumilla, and he was forced to flee the battlefield, leaving behind his artillery and many provisions and valuables. Having rallied his army, he was dealt a devastating blow by the confederates in the Battle of Monforte. Tristán raised a new army, but fell in the Battle of Funes in 1477, where the Confederates fought alongside an army of Prince Reginaldo of Baja Litoria.

=Great Kingdom of Pelaxia (1685 to 1852)=

====Background====

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=====The Regia General=====

=====Agriculture-based economic expansion=====

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Prime Minister Botello would try to reform the Law of Lords, seeking to establish the obligation of the monarch to appoint the lords recommended by head of Government. This proposed amendment was rejected in the House of Lords. Subsequently, Luciano ll would request his resignation to his Chancellor and later the Prime Minister. This action would initiate the military uprising in Agrila in 1852, led by General Solorio Torres. The victory of Solorio Torres, who was beginning to stalk the capital, along with the following uprisings in Monte, Villa Gigonza and Terrero would seal the Republican triumph. Without military or political support, the monarchy had seen its last days. The liberal government eliminated the nobility titles and the House of Lords, and forced Luciano ll into exile. In addition, the administration of Botello would allow the local election of provincial governors through their respective parliaments, from which would benefit the military leaders who participated in the uprising.

====Federalism V Unitarism====

====Consolidation of Federalism (1876)====

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====2003 Crisis====

====2007 "La Reforma Popular"====

==See Also==

[[Category:History]]

[[Category:Pelaxia]]

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 In the early part of the 19th century, most of the former Pelaxian Empire overseas disintegrated. A tenuous balance between liberal and conservative forces was struck in the establishment of a republic in Pelaxia; this period began in 1852 and ended in 1922. Then came the dictatorship of General Benedicto Álvaro Camargo (1922-1932). His government inaugurated a period ruled by a militarist party, the Restauración Nacional Party, up until 1957. From 1922 the country experienced rapid economic growth in the 1940s and early 1950s. With the death of Federico Pedro Olmos in November 1956 Pelaxia returned to the Federal Republic. With a fresh Constitution voted in 1958.
 =Antiquity (600 BC - 500 AD)=
+The Cognati (from Latin: Cognatus) were a set of people that Caphirian sources identified with that name in the wester coast of Sarpedon over the Kindred Sea, at least from the 6th century BC. The Caphirian sources also use the term Pelagi to refer to the Cognati. The term Cognati, as used by the ancient authors, had two distinct meanings. One, more general, referred to all the populations of the cognatish valley without regard to ethnic differences. The other, more restricted ethnic sense, refers to the people living in the western and southern coasts of the Cognatish Valley, which by the 6th century BC had absorbed cultural influences from Vallos. This pre-Caphiravian cultural group spoke the Cognatish language from the 7th to the 1st century BC. Cognati society was divided into different classes, including kings or chieftains (Latin: "regulus"), nobles, priests, artisans and slaves. Cognati aristocracy, often called a "senate" by the ancient sources, met in a council of nobles. Kings or chieftains would maintain their forces through a system of obligation or vassalage that the Caphirians termed "fides".The Cognati adopted wine and olives from the Vallosi. Horse breeding was particularly important to the Cognati and their nobility. Mining was also very important for their economy, especially the silver mines, the iron mines in the Montian valleys, as well as the exploitation of tin and copper deposits. They produced fine metalwork and high quality iron weapons such as the falcata.
-The Cognati (from Latin: Cognatus) were a set of people that Caphirian sources identified with that name in the wester coast of Sarpedon over the Kindred Sea, at least from the 6th century BC. The Caphirian sources also use the term Pelagi to refer to the Cognati. The term Cognati, as used by the ancient authors, had two distinct meanings. One, more general, referred to all the populations of the cognatish valley without regard to ethnic differences. The other, more restricted ethnic sense, refers to the people living in the western and southern coasts of the Cognatish Valley, which by the 6th century BC had absorbed cultural influences from Vallos. This pre-Caphiravian cultural group spoke the Cognatish language from the 7th to the 1st century BC.  Cognati society was divided into different classes, including kings or chieftains (Latin: "regulus"), nobles, priests, artisans and slaves. Cognati aristocracy, often called a "senate" by the ancient sources, met in a council of nobles. Kings or chieftains would maintain their forces through a system of obligation or vassalage that the Caphirians termed "fides".The Cognati adopted wine and olives from the Vallosi. Horse breeding was particularly important to the Cognati and their nobility. Mining was also very important for their economy, especially the silver mines, the iron mines in the Montian valleys, as well as the exploitation of tin and copper deposits. They produced fine metalwork and high quality iron weapons such as the falcata.
 Around 4th Century BC, Caphiria sent Caphirian General Ottiano to conquer Cognatia. General Ottiano subsequently defeated the Cognati tribes and conquered Montia. After the Cognati defeat, the valleys were divided into two major provinces, Pelagia Orientis and Pelagia Occidentis. In 197 BC, the Cognati tribes revolted once again in the P. Orientis province. After securing these regions, Caphiria invaded and conquered Albalitoria and Cognatilitoria. The Caphirians fought a long and drawn out campaign for the conquest of Albalitoria. Wars and campaigns in the northwest coast of the Cognati valleys would continue until 16 BC, when the final rebellions of the Litorian Wars were defeated.
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 Pelaxian Leopard.jpg|Cognati jaguar statuette, 2nd to 4th centuries BC.
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 Detalle de una reconstrucción de inscripciones celtíberas.jpg|Reconstruction of Cognati scripture
 </gallery>
 Due to their military qualities, as of the 5th century BCE Cognatish soldiers were frequently deployed in battles in Caphiria.
 ==Caphirian Pelaxia==
 [[File:Roman bridge at night - Córdoba, Spain - DSC07251.JPG|thumb|Caphirian bridge at night in Soratia]]
 Throughout the centuries of Caphirian rule over the provinces of Pelaxia, Caphirian customs, religion, laws and the general Caphirian lifestyle, gained much favour in the indigenous population, which was compounded by a substantial minority of Caphirian immigrants, which eventually formed a distinct Pelaxio-Caphirian culture. Several factors aided the process of Caphirianization:
 * Creation of civil infrastructure, including bridges, road networks and urban sanitation.
 * Commercial interaction within regions and the wider Caphirian world.
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 * The spread of the hierarchical Caphirian administrative system throughout the Pelaxian provinces.
 * Growth of Caphirian aristocratic land holdings (latifundia)
 ====Military projects====
 The military works were the first type of infrastructure built by the Caphirians in Pelaxia, due to the proximity of the valley with the Acirians and Vallosi. The Caphirian fort was the main focus of military strategy passive or active. They could be constructed for short term temporary occupation, tasked with some immediate military purpose, or for garrisoning the troops during the winter, in these cases is built with mortar and wood. They could also be permanent, in order to subdue or control an area in the long term, for which stone was often used to build fortifications. Many camps became stable population centers, eventually becoming real cities. Once a developed into a stable colony or camp, the need to defend these nuclei involved the construction of powerful walls. The Caphirians pioneered the poliorcetic tradition (siege warfare tactics), and over the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, erected substantial walls, usually with the technique of double facing stones with a filling inside of mortar, stone and unique Caphirian concrete. The thickness of this could range from four to even ten meters. There are notable present day remains of Caphirian walls in '''Babafor, Foronafor, Terrafor, Tarabefa, Montia, Albalitor, Villa Septintria and Colonia.'''
 <gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
 Roman Wall - Empúries 2005-03-27.jpg|Remains of Caphirian wall in Las Jusonias.
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 Roman camp A.JPG|Caphirian camp in Villa Septintria.
 </gallery>
 ====Civil projects====
 The ancient Caphirian civilization is known as the great builder of infrastructure. It was the first civilization which dedicated itself to a serious and determined effort for this kind of civil work as a basis for settlement of their populations, and the preservation of its military and economic domination over the vast territory of its empire. The works of most importance are roads, bridges and aqueducts.
 <gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
 Ancient_Roman_theater_in_Cesaraugusta.jpg|Remains of Caphirian theatre in Colonia.
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 Capernaum roman olive press by David Shankbone.jpg|Caphirian olive press in Jumilla.
 </gallery>
 Either within or outside the urban environment, these facilities became vital for the function of the city and its economy, allowing it to supply the most essential necessities; either water via aqueducts or food, supplies and goods through the efficient network of roads and bridges. '''In addition, any city of at least average importance had a sewer system for the drainage of waste water and to prevent tropical rains flooding the streets.''' Infrastructure for civilian use was built with intensity, roads that ran through the valley joining Villa Septintria to Termia and Albalitor to Montia: covering the coastal Kindred Sea through the already established routes. Along them a booming trade flowed, encouraging political stability of the territory over several centuries.
 ==Kosal-Caphirian Wars==
+[[File:Eurico, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Evaristo, King of the Kosali|303x303px]]
 ===Caphirian recession and Kosal expansion===
-[[File:Eurico, rey de los Visigodos (Museo del Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Evaristo, King of the Kosali]]
 In the mid 5th Century CE., the Caphirian Republic would eventually face internal pressure from ambitious leaders such as Luccino Capontinus and Iscallio Maristo, as contention for leadership caused a number of small fights among the ambitious youth and the elder aristocracy. The fighting would culminate with a five year civil war, known now as the War of the Republic, that left 120,000 people dead. The war was in such a frenzy that by the time it had ended, there was no decisive victor and as a consequence, the Republic was on the verge of total collapse.
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 In 484 the Kosal established Agrila as the capital of their kingdom. Successive Kosal kings ruled Agrila as patricians who held imperial commissions to govern in the name of the Caphirian Consul. In 585 the Kosal conquered the Losa Kingdom of Montia, and thus controlled a third of Pelaxia.
+[[File:El_rey_Don_Pelayo_en_Covadonga_(Museo_del_Prado).jpg|thumb|Columbio, from a 12th-century [[illustrated manuscript]]|left|421x421px]]
 =====Kingdom of Agrila=====
 The Agrila Kingdom (Latin: Regnum Agrili) was a kingdom that occupied what is now western Pelaxia from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the successor states to the Caphiravian presence in the Province, it was originally created by the settlement of the Kosali under King Magda in Agrila.The Kingdom maintained independence from the Caphiravian Empire, whose attempts to re-establish authority in Pelaxia were only partially successful. Under King Evaristo - who eliminated the status of imperial commissions - a triumphal advance of the Kosali began. Alarmed at Kosali expansion from Ficetia after victory over the Caphirian armies at Cakia in 479, the Consul sent a fresh army against Evaristo. The Caphirian army was crushed in battle nearby and Evaristo then captured Soratia and secured all of Pelaxian Valley.
 <br>
 =====Kosali Conquest of Albalitor=====
-[[File:El_rey_Don_Pelayo_en_Covadonga_(Museo_del_Prado).jpg|thumb|right|Columbio, from a 12th-century [[illustrated manuscript]]]]
 Kosal monarch Columbio founded the Kingdom of Albalitor in 618, after he expelled the Klis form its capital and harassed Rastri and Rati settlements in the coastal strip over the Kindred Sea.
 The Albalitorian kings were happy to make peace with the Sarpic when it suited them, particularly if it left them free to pursue their other enemies, the Merquines. Thus Dadario (757–68) killed 40,000 Sarpics but also defeated the Meriquines and Ciro (774–83) made peace with the Sarpics. Under King Radamancio I (791–842), the kingdom was firmly established.
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 <br>
 =Caphirian Reconquest (500 to 1485)=
 ===Middle Ages===
 ====Pelaxia in the Early Middle Ages====
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 While some of the "Free Communities" (Comunidades Libres, i.e. Montia, Cevedo, and Bajofort) were Imperolibertos the Castro-Brine still claimed authority over some villages and much of the surrounding land. While Cevedo was Imperoliberti in 1240, the castle of Nueva Brine was built in 1244 to help control Lake Lucrecia and restrict the neighboring Forest Communities. In 1273 the rights to the Comunidades were sold by a cadet branch of the Habsburgs to the head of the family, Laín II. Laín II was therefore the ruler of all the Imperoliberti communities as well as the lands that he ruled as a Castro-Brine.
 Laín II instituted a strict rule in his homelands and raised the taxes tremendously to finance wars and further territorial acquisitions. As king, he finally had also become the direct liege lord of the Comunidades Libres, which thus saw their previous independence curtailed. On the April 16, 1291 Laín bought all the rights over the town of Lucrecia and the abbey estates in Bajofort from Abbey. The Comunidades saw their trade route over Lake Lucrecia cut off and feared losing their independence. When Laín died on July 15, 1291 the Comunidades prepared to defend themselves. On August 1, 1291 a League was made between the Comunidades Libres for mutual defense against a common enemy.
 ===The 14th century===
 With the opening of the Gastian Pass in the 13th century, the territory of Central Pelaxia, primarily the valleys of Montia, had gained great strategical importance and was granted Imperoliberti by the Horiz monarchs of Agrila. This became the nucleus of the Montian Confederacy, which during the 1330s to 1350s grew to incorporate its core of "eleven provinces"
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 Initially in 1469, Lord Warden Emigdio of Castro-Brine of Albalitor assigned his possessions in the Termia as a fiefdom to the Duke of Barakaldo, Tristán, to have them protected better against the expansion of the Montian Confederacy. Tristán's involvement west of the Confederacy gave him no reason to attack the confederates as Emigdio had wanted, but his embargo politics against several confederate communes, directed by his reeve Pedro de Goito, prompted these to turn to Agrila for help. Tristán's expansionist strategy suffered a first setback in his politics when his attack on the Archbishopric of Cuenca failed after the unsuccessful Siege of Gandía (1474–75).
 In a second phase, Emigdio sought to achieve a peace agreement with the Montian confederates, which eventually was concluded in Agrila in 1474. He wanted to buy back his Termia possessions from Tristán, which the latter refused. Shortly afterwards, de Goito was captured and executed by decapitation in Termia, and the Monts, united with the Termia cities and Emigdio of Castro-Brine in an "anti-Barakaldo league", conquered part of the Barakaldian land when they won the Battle of Alcoy in November 1474. The next year, Agrilan forces conquered and ravaged Vadia, which belonged to the Duchy of Savria, who was allied with Tristán. In 1476 Tristán retaliated and marched to Jumilla, which belonged to Didac of Savria, but which had recently been taken by the Confederates, where he had the garrison hanged or drowned in the lake despite their capitulation. When the Montian confederate forces arrived a few days later, he was defeated in the Battle of Jumilla, and he was forced to flee the battlefield, leaving behind his artillery and many provisions and valuables. Having rallied his army, he was dealt a devastating blow by the confederates in the Battle of Monforte. Tristán raised a new army, but fell in the Battle of Funes in 1477, where the Confederates fought alongside an army of Prince Reginaldo of Baja Litoria.
 =Great Kingdom of Pelaxia (1685 to 1852)=
 ====Background====
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 <br />
 =====The Regia General=====
 =====Agriculture-based economic expansion=====
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 Prime Minister Botello would try to reform the Law of Lords, seeking to establish the obligation of the monarch to appoint the lords recommended by head of Government. This proposed amendment was rejected in the House of Lords. Subsequently, Luciano ll would request his resignation to his Chancellor and later the Prime Minister. This action would initiate the military uprising in Agrila in 1852, led by General Solorio Torres. The victory of Solorio Torres, who was beginning to stalk the capital, along with the following uprisings in Monte, Villa Gigonza and Terrero would seal the Republican triumph. Without military or political support, the monarchy had seen its last days. The liberal government eliminated the nobility titles and the House of Lords, and forced Luciano ll into exile. In addition, the administration of Botello would allow the local election of provincial governors through their respective parliaments, from which would benefit the military leaders who participated in the uprising.
 ====Federalism V Unitarism====
 ====Consolidation of Federalism (1876)====
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 ====2003 Crisis====
 ====2007 "La Reforma Popular"====
 ==See Also==
 [[Category:History]]
 [[Category:Pelaxia]]

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