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'''Zeshinava''', officially the '''Neoteric Confederacy of Zeshinava''', is a country in the [[Istroya]] region of southeastern [[Sarpedon]]. It is neighbored by the [[Sydona Islands]] and the [[Founders Sea]]. Zeshinava is a storied country inhabited by the {{wp|Slavs|indigenous Sarpedonic people}}, who migrated in droves to the southeast of the continent during the [[Crusades]] to aid the Iddyritine Despotate. The Zeshen and Iddyritine people assimilated with the establishment of the Zeshen Kingdom by the crusaders as the Oduniyyad Caliphate fell, though this saw resistance from the former exclusive High Sarpedonic ruling class. The falling Islamic powers took advantage of the squabbling peoples, leaving several independent emirates to take the lands of the Zeshens and Caliphate. The Fourth Crusade brought an end to the infighting, with the Zeshen Kingdom establishing itself in the northwest of present-day Zeshinava, the christening of the Absurian Empire along the south, and several other minor crusader states surviving in the east.