Ardmore: Difference between revisions

|national_motto =    Aonaichte ann an Obair, Aonaichte tro Eachdraidh

|englishmotto =        ("United in work, united through history")

|national_anthem =    Syndic's March

|government_type =   Unitary {{wp|Syndicalism|syndicalist}} republic

|leader_title1 =      Chair of the Board of Labor(?)

|leader_name1 = Kellen Melns

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|leader_title3 =       

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|legislature =        Board of Labor

|upper_house =         

|lower_house =         

The people of Ardmore, known as Ardmoris, are considered members of the [[Garán people]], sharing this identity with the people of [[Carolina]]. Much of their heritage results from the blending of [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] and [[Gothic people|Gothic]] cultural traditions that occurred in Carolina and adjoining areas in the years leading up to the collapse of [[Great Levantia]]. Garáns are thought to have invaded Ardmore and settled it in the mid-6th century, though no unified Garán polity emerged on the main island of Great Ardmore; loose alliances of mainland cities and tribes were formed with the newly established Garán cities and tribes on the island. The area was briefly incorporated into the early [[Holy Levantine Empire|Levantine Empire]] and subsequent [[Southern Kingdom of the Levantines]], but fell out of Carolina's orbit and subsequently became an independent Christian kingdom in 1004. Its people retained cultural and economic ties with the mainland while beginning to spread out throughout the remaining islands of what became known as the Ardmori Archipelago, settling [[New Ardmore]] by the late 11th century and displacing the Gothic people living there. At the end of the medieval period, Ardmore was a relatively centralized power, allowing it to become a major colonial power during the age of exploration. Largely unaffected by the sectarian disputes that caused the [[Great Confessional War]], Ardmore became prosperous in the 16th and 17th centuries, with its colonial holdings greatly expanding due to the [[Pharisedom|increased number of Protestant settlers looking to go abroad]]. The uneven prosperity of Ardmore, combined with a greatly uneven period of industrial development in the 18th and 19th centuries, lead to considerable class resentment and domestic problems. The growing rifts between the parts of society lead to the [[Ardmori Civil War]], which resulted in the establishment of a {{wp|syndicalist}} republic in Ardmore. The Civil War resulted in the partition of the country into Ardmore and [[New Ardmore]], which existed briefly as a {{wp|constitutional republic}} under the personal leadership of the last Prince-Regent of the Kingdom of Ardmore, and subsequently as a protectorate of [[Kiravia]]. Ardmore today is a relatively developed nation which is adjacent to, but not part of, the [[Levantine Union]]'s political and economic sphere. Although an outspoken critic of [[Urcea]] and Levantine foreign policy in general, and despite its revolutionary form of government, Ardmore has been making an effort to more closely align with Levantia in recent decades.