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{{Infobox country
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|conventional_long_name = The Neoteric Confederacy of Zeshinava
|conventional_long_name = The Neoteric Confederacy of Zeshinava
|native_name = Taz Nөjas Sѧjioh-Tihnansyihӈ zat Zeжcihnωva <small>(Zeshen)</small>
|native_name = Taz Nөvruvihn Sѧjioh-Tihnansyihӈ zat Zeжcihnωva <small>(Zeshen)</small>
|image_flag = Zeshinava flag.png
|image_flag = Zeshinava flag.png
|alt_flag = The flag of Zeshinava.
|alt_flag = The flag of Zeshinava.
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Zeshinava is a member of the [[League of Nations]].
Zeshinava is a member of the [[League of Nations]].
==Name and Etymology==
The name Zeshinava translates literally to "Lady Ava". Lady Ava, otherwise known as Avanira Fonsphorum (Avenɛra Fөnzvюrum in Zeshen), was a Slavic migrant from the Principality of Truřov that immigrated across the continent when {{wp|Pope Gregory VII}} called for the reconquest of Istroya from the Oduniyyad Caliphate. Her father, Otislav Fonsphorum (Otaꙉѧlѧv Fөnzvюrum in Zeshen), took the call to arms. Ava begged her father not to leave, but out of religious obligation he travelled to Istroya among countless other thousands of Catholic men beckoned by the pope, leaving his home empty of a patron. To Ava's dismay, she had to remain in Truřov to help her family. Upon a fatal incursion by Oduniyyad raiders however, Ava was left among the few survivors in her village, with the fallen bitterly contesting their homes and livelihoods. In the grief she was left in by her family's passing, she set out to southeast Istroya to campaign alongside her people and seek retribution against her father for his abandoning of the family. Answering the call for aid from Despot Abcis III, Ava joined the ranks of the Iddryitine army under the name Adam. She fought with her legion to retake the outlying islands of present-day Zeshinava and distinguished herself as a skilled soldier considering her small stature. She would set herself apart however in the Siege of Kronzciny, seeking to liberate the people of the caliphate rather than expelling them. Moved by the families left behind by soldiers like her own, she led the people of Kronzcony to the safety of the Iddryitine-controlled shores and pled for the mercy of the Iddryitine authorities. In both fighting the cowardice of the caliphate and commanding compassion to the army leadership she earned herself the respect of her fellow soldiers. She would go on to meet with the occupying forces at the behest of her superiors and the hijab in a show of tolerance, revealing her womanhood. She negotiated the defection of the occupying Muslim forces, and upon bearing the legitimacy of the Iddryitine armed forces and local Muslim ruling class, she proclaimed the Zeshen Kingdom, with occupying-leader Abbas al-Ahzmira becoming King Adam I, and Ava becoming Queen Ava. The two married, and their kingdom would bear the name of the woman that negotiated its foundation: Zeжcihnω Ava, or in English, Lady Ava.