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=== The first inhabitants === | === The first inhabitants === | ||
What today is modern Verona, has had several periods of human activity and societal development over the centuries prior to its modern rendition. Archaeological studies from various research universities and teams across the country have found that Verona has been inhabited for a very long period in comparison with other states in the country, particularly fueled by its uninterrupted land connection to the rest of eastern and central Sarpedon via the Turian Peninsula. Settled by several pre-cursors to modern Latin and Cartadanian indigenous cultures, Verona was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in Sarpedon, with various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000 at its peaks. While the indigenous peoples of Verona included more than 30 distinct groups of Native Cartadanians, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to smaller clusters in the interior, Verona was dominated by a ethnic group known as the Varunã, from which the state got its name. This group, originating in the Tanoa Valley, which also includes parts of the states of Catária, Tanoa, and Tanoa Sul, was the largest and most organized group in the region even after the arrival of Caphirians from the southeast. The Varunã spread northerly and were one of the first to encounter the Adonerii people of Urlazio, that is, the ancestral people from which Latin would develop. Contact with the Adonerii, however, was perceived to be very limited for several centuries based on archaeological findings, not peaking until their spread into Caphiria, with the fracturing and eventual evolution into the Caphirian people. From their development of Latin and its splintering into various vulgar Latin dialects, the Varunã (as well as a specific subset of Ettian people from Alexandria) are believed to have intermixed with Caphirians from southern Amarsia and western Leonia to form the Aleo-Cartadanian (Old- or Proto-Cartadanian) language in roughly the 9th century. Through continued existence, the Varunã are also credited with their influences on the modern Cartadanian language, especially the Costenha and Attalense dialects, thought to have donated the syllable-timed rhythm and pronunciation of unstressed vowels as open-mid [ɛ] and [ɔ] to the language. | |||
Verona groups also were diverse in their political organization with bands, tribes, villages, and on the resource-rich lands of the Pantanal and the Everglades, large chiefdoms, such as the Aronesi, Guanches and Vartuli could be found. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances created many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups. Whether a group was friendly or warlike was critical to the fates of Latin quaesitores and settlers in that land, with a generally accepted belief that the coastal groups like the Varunã were amicable while the forest and inland groups like the Aronesi were initially not. | |||
=== Colonial and Latin periods === | === Colonial and Latin periods === | ||