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| languages = '''First language'''<br />[[Castadillaan Pelaxian]]<br />'''Second or third language''' {{hlist| XXXian Pelaxian | [[Blairian Ænglish]] | [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] | [[Caphirc Latin]] | [[Cartadanian language|Cartadanian]] | [[Emeritan Pelaxian]] | [[Julian Ænglish]] | [[Qabóri language|Qabóri]] | [[Puertegan Pelaxian]]}}
| religions = Mostly [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] (see [[Catholicism in Castadilla]]; religious minorities including [[College of Levantine Churches|Collegiate]], [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism|Mercantile Reform]], [[Irreligion in Castadilla|atheists]], {{wp|Agnosticism|agnostics}} and others exist
| religions = Mostly [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] (see [[Catholicism in Castadilla]]; religious minorities including [[College of Levantine Churches|Collegiate]], [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism|Mercantile Reform]], [[Irreligion in Castadilla|atheists]], {{wp|Agnosticism|agnostics}} and others exist
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| related = {{hlist| XXXians | [[Cartadanians]] | [[Emeritans]] | [[Isurians]] | [[Latinic people|Latins]] | [[Lucrecio-Isurians]] | {{wp|Mestizos}} | [[Pelaxians]] | [[Puertegans]] | [[Vallosi people|Vallosi]]}}<!-- includes groups with significant intermarriage, ordered alphabetically -->
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Revision as of 23:40, 15 September 2024

Delepasians
Location of Castadilla, from which the Delepasians hail from
Total population
c. 45.6-52.4 million
Regions with significant populations
 Castadilla32,234,368 (2032 estimate)
 PelaxiaX
 CartadaniaX
 CaphiriaX
 BurgundieX
 UrceaX
 AlstinX
 Tierrador422,037
 Ceylonia213,509
 PuertegoX
Languages
First language
Castadillaan Pelaxian
Second or third language
Religion
Mostly Catholic (see Catholicism in Castadilla; religious minorities including Collegiate, Mercantile Reform, atheists, agnostics and others exist
Related ethnic groups

The Delepasians (Pelaxian: Delepasiano) are a Vallosi ethnic group descended from predominantly Pelaxian settlers first arriving at the Bahía de Los Rumas with Isurian Captain Mauricio José Delepas in 1497. Until 1984, they were the only group allowed to take part in Castadilla's politics. Delepasians make up approximately 61.6% of the total Castadillaan population, based upon the number of Castadillaans who self-identified as Delepasians in the Castadillaan National Census of 2028. Castadillaan Pelaxian, Castadilla's most widely spoken home language, evolved as the mother tongue of Delepasians. It originated in the Pelaxian vernacular, incorporating words brought from the Adonerii and the now-extinct indigenous Vallosi.

The arrival of Delepas at Bahía de Los Rumas in 1497 opened a gateway of free access to Vallos from Pelaxia; however, it also necessitated the founding and safeguarding of the Pelaxian colonies from not only indigenous resistance, but also from foreign navies from Kiravia and Burgundie with the latter leading to a series of clashes lasting from the early 16th Century until 1665. As the colonies grew and prospered, some of the colonists, both notable and common, have began to practice intermarriage with both the remaining indigenous Vallosi and the Latins. Despite their diverse nationalities, these three groups have intermingled, using Pelaxian as the common language and adopting similar attitudes towards politics. The attributes they eventually shared served as a basis for the evolution of an Delepasian identity and consciousness separate from the wider Pelaxian culture.

Delepasian exceptionalism has taken the form of political parties and secret societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries as the colonies declared their independence from Pelaxia in the former century and consolidated their identity in the latter century. In 1924, Delepasian prime minister Fernando Pascual established the Estado Social regime to promote Delepasian interests and to further foster the Delepasian identity throughout the country while adding in some strong Catholic overtones; it also centralised the Delepasian Confederation into the unitary Delepasian Commonwealth. Inspired by Navidadia and the policies of the Navidadian Justice Party, the Estado Social would also set up the Navidadian System in 1943 which enforced a harsh policy of racial segregation against the Loa people in the southwest. The Navidadian System and the Estado Social were both forcibly put to an end by the Velvet Revolution in 1984 following decades of domestic unrest that resulted in Castadilla's first free and democratic elections held under a universal franchise in 1996.

Nomenclature

The term "Delepasian" (sometimes in the forms Delepasan or Delepase, from the name Delepas) currently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant and majority group among the non-indigenous groups of Castadilla, or Pelaxian-speaking population of Pelaxian origin. Their original progenitors, especially in paternal lines, also included smaller numbers of Cartadanians, Latins, and the indigenous Vallosi people. Historically, the term "mestizo" has been used to describe the Pelaxian-speaking colonists further in-land as a group, with Vallosi-Pelaxian being used to describe the colonists who lived in coastal areas and thus were completely of Pelaxian ancestry; these two terms are not particularly objectionable, but "Delepasian" has been considered a more appropriate term.

By the late eighteenth century, the term was in common usage in the Pelaxian colonies of eastern Vallos. At one time, mestizos denoted the Pelaxian-speaking colonists who lived away from the coast: those settlers who engaged in intermarriage more often, and did so regularly regardless of social status. Most Pelaxian-speaking settlers who lived in coastal areas saw themselves as Vallosi-Pelaxians despite never having intermarried with the indigenous Vallosi. Both terms have remained in use as late as the 1850s.

The first recorded instance of a colonist identifying as a Delepasian occurred in July 1797, during the tricentennial of Delepas' discovery of the Bahía de Los Rumas. When the author Juan Guerrero wrote, "Hace trescientos años, el intrépido héroe Mauricio Delepas plantó la bandera de Pelajia en el hermoso dominio de Delepasia. Nosotros, los delepasianos, deberíamos desarrollar una identidad separada de Pelajia, una identidad en la que abracemos la única fe verdadera sin importar si nuestros antepasados fueron pelajianos, cartadanianos, latinos o los Vallosi, mitificados durante mucho tiempo." ("Three hundred years ago, the dauntless hero Mauricio Delepas planted Pelaxia's flag on Delepasia's fair domain. We Delepasians ought to develop an identity separate from Pelaxia, an identity where we embrace the one true faith without regard towards whether our forefathers were Pelaxian, Cartadanian, Latins, or the long-mythologised Vallosi."). Guerrero's words were widely-distributed amongst the Pelaxian colonies, leading to growing sense of national consciousness amongst all colonists regardless of whether they were on the coast or further inland.

Population

1546 estimates

1626 estimates

1703 estimates

1850 estimates

1947 estimates

1976 Census

1984 Census

1996 Census

2004 Census

2016 Census

2020 Census

2024 Census

2028 Census

History

Early Pelaxian settlement


Emergence of the Pelaxian Mestizos

The Great Abjuration


Delepasian exceptionalism

Genealogy

Non-Sarpedon ancestry

Modern history

Estado Social

Navidadian System

Delepasian Commonwealth

Castadilla era

Geography

Castadilla

XXX

Vaspera

Delepasian diaspora

Pelaxia

Cartadania

Levantia

Caphiria

Other

Culture

Religion

Language

Literature

Arts

Cuisine

Sport

Numismatics

Institutions

Cultural

Political

Notable Delepasians

Politicians

Science and Technology

Military

Arts

Sports

See also