Menquoi

Menquoi is a term of Medieval origin used by residents of Kiravia, Sarpedon, Ultmar, and to a lesser extent Audonia to refer to the people of South Levantia. The term encompasses what would today known as the Urcean, Derian, and Bergendii people and their related regional cultures such as the Garán people. The term, likely a Burgoignesc language corruption of a term for "equatorial" (meánchiorcal), most probably originated after the discovery of the equator in 1137. Generally, it refers to a Medieval concept of undifferentiated South Levantines descending from the majority population of Great Levantia. Although primarily used as an exonym, in the centuries prior to The Anarchy the term entered use within the Holy Levantine Empire to collectively describe the Kingdom of Dericania and Imperial Kingdom of Urcea, but fell out of disfavor following the Great Confessional War. The term, and historical derivations of it, have been considered derogatory since the 1700s. In its place, the renewed idea of "Levantine identity" emerged in the 19th century.