User:Kir/Sandbox3
| "Old Dominion" (Working title) |
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‣ New unified concept for Suderawjö & Scapa
‣ t. Urcea pro: Why aren’t Suderavia and Scapa a single dude South Kilikas Federation or some shit ‣ Have them be some ur Coscivians and very early raider arrivals or some shit ‣ Not just a Kiravian colony but true Federacy ‣ the general idea was something like coscivian "North Oldlands Federation" which sits in the higher order of the kravian federalist classes; these people share a language isolate most similar to Great Kiravic Coscivians, over time making it clear to most people that they're descended from the same pre-iceberg proto-coscivian and thus are "Old" Coscivians or whatever. due to their geographic position managed to remain distinct from gothic and gaelic neighbors, though incorporating more """normal""" tendencies by cultural exchange from both. their distinctiveness only really became apparent when Kiravia became a major maritime power and trader and left isolation ‣ reuniting scapaand suderavia with great kiravia became early obsession, first proto-nationalist thing in region, and also very earliest example of kiravian thalassocracy. eventually local suderavian lord conquered scapa and defeated proto fanerians with kiravian assistance (medieval?) and established some sort of subordinate fief ‣ Should have a popular local party called the Anti-Levantine Union Party |
Old Dominion
| Old Dominion Iśdirekta | |
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| Suderavia in dark green, Scapa in medium green, Wintergen (disputed) in lime. | |
| Country |  Kiravian Federacy
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| Theme |  Overseas Regions
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| Capital | Xromîda |
| Largest City | Keremonta |
| Population | 5,284,000 |
| Doge | Vanner Kexolm (ALUP) |
| Prime Secretary | Kormákur Felaxriv (ALUP) |
| Legislature | House of Keys |
| Stanora seats | 4 |
| Official languages | Suderavian Coscivian Scapalline Coscivian |
| Recognised languages | Fhasen Kiravic Coscivian Mainland Coscivian |
| Postal Abbreviation | SUD, SKP |
| Time Zone | West Levantine Time Central Levantine TIme |
The Old Dominion is an overseas region of the Kiravian Federacy comprising the peninsular province of Suderavia and the island province of Scapa, both located along the northern coast of Levantia on the Kilikas Sea. Along with Ilánova, with which it has strong historic ties, the lands of the Old Dominion are considered one of the cradles of Coscivian civilisation.
History
Recently unearthed evidence demonstrates that the wanderings of the archæic homonin species Homo darudensis passed through modern Suderavia at one point, though the duration of its presence is still quite uncertain. The earliest anatomically and behaviourally modern human culture to leave a significant archæological mark on the Old Dominion lands, specifically Suderavia, was an outlying branch of the Packer Culture, known among scholars as the 'Green Bay Packers' as the densest concentration of Packer artifacts in Suderavia is found around the Keremonta (Ænglish: "Green Bay"). Flint and bone tools fashioned in the Demomappic style recovered from the surrounding seabed attest to the first ventures of the direct ancestors of Kiravians into the vicinity, beginning what would prove to be a long history of this.
Around 6750 BC, during the Neolithic, maritime technology introduced to littoral Kiravia by the Ʒ-Q Culture facilitated a series of multidirectional, outbound seaborne migrations by the sophisticated megalith-building culture of Éorsa. Two westward waves or floes of migration carried the Austro-Kiravian and Trans-Kiravian languages to the Kiravian mainland. Migration by easterly routes during the same period appears to have carried a separate branch of the Trans-Kiravian languages back to the northwestern Levantian lands from whence their Ice Age ancestors had come thousands of years earlier, including Suderavia. In addition to their languages, these voyageurs brought with them a knack and propensity for megalithic ritual architecture, and other characteristic cultural adaptations - the rudiments of the proto-ethnic Coscivian identity. Thus begins the history of the Mainland Coscivians.
Connected to the Vandarch trade network via sheltered ports in Penthrav. This connexion remains significant even in modern times, and it began the process of South Levantine cultural influence on the Old Dominion that would continue over the successive centuries and leave a lasting impact.
At some point the trans-Kilikas trade networks break down and/and the OD regions also cease to have anything particularly valuable to offer for long-range trade, becoming very isolated.
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By this time, the Empire had long been little more than a symbolic legal fiction and the Emperor only a unifying figure in a broad cultural sense (albeit an important figure). There was nothing resembling a feeling of National solidarity between Kiravians and the people of the Old Dominions. Indeed, from an outside perspective, the denizens of these provinces were thought of in terms of local identities only, simply as quirky, isolated seaside peasants ekeing out a living on the fringes of the continent, mostly indistinct from their Fhainn and Covine neighbours.
This changed when...
Driznaft: Kiravians in the Crusades
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| ‣ Melians and Sydona are key ‣ Need to coørdinate with Banglazesh ‣ t. Urcea pro: ‣ i think you're actually best positioned for crusades to naturally lead into kiravian empire abroad loose coscivians would be all over crusading coscivian crusader states everywhere the states continue to exist just sort of due to lack of opposition and inertia until ideas about like Great Coscivia and political unity of these places comes about later granted a crusader state surviving until the 17th century at earliest is a long time are there any analogous pre nationalism movements like this? would be worth researching ‣ the less fun but more plausible option ends up being like Coscivian noble families in these places keep dying out, causing more and more distant relations to be more or less forced to assume them overseas while being increasingly more poor and irrelevant, such that you end up having prosperous Kiravians basically passing up foreign thrones and in many cases they just end up being bequeathed to the kiravian state whch i think would bebest for the melians as the crusader state par excellence unless you have something in mind for them ‣ Some form of escheat where heirless lands and titles revert to His Marbliness |
Kiravian crusaders came mainly from South Kirav, the Baylands, and Farravonia. [What polities controlled these lands during this period, and who ruled them/led or sponsored the Crusades from there?]