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==History== | ==History== | ||
In XXXXX while on a reconnaisance mission against the [[Cromwelutes]], Imperial Coscivian military leader [[Selvur Kalarin]]'s armada came upon a Cromwelute trading settlement at the mouth of a navigable river. Kalarin's forces attacked and razed the settlement later that year, and the site remained abandoned until six years later, when a Coscivian trading post was established on the opposite bank of the river from the ruins of the Cromwelute one. Named ''Escardun'' ("Fort Escard") after the High Admiral of the Coscivian Imperial Navy at the time, Arvandus Eskard. Escarda's proximity to Drail, the most technologically and economically developed [[ | In XXXXX while on a reconnaisance mission against the [[Cromwelutes]], Imperial Coscivian military leader [[Selvur Kalarin]]'s armada came upon a Cromwelute trading settlement at the mouth of a navigable river. Kalarin's forces attacked and razed the settlement later that year, and the site remained abandoned until six years later, when a Coscivian trading post was established on the opposite bank of the river from the ruins of the Cromwelute one. Named ''Escardun'' ("Fort Escard") after the High Admiral of the Coscivian Imperial Navy at the time, Arvandus Eskard. Escarda's proximity to Drail, the most technologically and economically developed [[Uroms|Urom]] society (and therefore the one best-suited for gainful trade with the Coscivians), as well as the reliable availability of food from the good farmland to the south, allowed the settlement to prosper. With the coastal lands further west being less fertile and home to Aboriginal groups with less to offer the Kiravians in trade, Escarda became the westernmost major Coscivian population center on the North Coast. | ||
After the defeat of Drail in the Continental War opened up the hinterlands of what would become Devalōmara State for Coscivian settlement, Escarda became a burgeoning port, exporting the abundant minerals and produce sent up the Swadesh from new settlements downriver, and becoming the main conduit for manufactured goods shipped in from the East to supply these communities. The mineral and forest wealth of the Westron Mountains eventually allowed Escarda to become an industrial center in its own right, producing products for export across the North Coast and as far east as Levantia over the famed Kilikas trade routes. | After the defeat of Drail in the Continental War opened up the hinterlands of what would become Devalōmara State for Coscivian settlement, Escarda became a burgeoning port, exporting the abundant minerals and produce sent up the Swadesh from new settlements downriver, and becoming the main conduit for manufactured goods shipped in from the East to supply these communities. The mineral and forest wealth of the Westron Mountains eventually allowed Escarda to become an industrial center in its own right, producing products for export across the North Coast and as far east as Levantia over the famed Kilikas trade routes. | ||
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Like Valēka and Eriadun, much of Escarda is a patchwork of neighbourhoods occupied primarily by one ethnosocial group or another, with more mixed-use and multi-ethnic areas near the waterfronts, along major commercial avenues, or surrounding intentional mixed-use zoned areas placed by the city government. Teveran Park, for example, is a predominantly Èrlem neighbourhood. Ravathura Row is divided roughly in half between Sarasoviem Coscivians and Kuatem Coscivians, while neighbouring Frāsertren is inhabited by native Kiravian Gaels and Gaelic-speakers of Fiannrian and Urcean origin. | Like Valēka and Eriadun, much of Escarda is a patchwork of neighbourhoods occupied primarily by one ethnosocial group or another, with more mixed-use and multi-ethnic areas near the waterfronts, along major commercial avenues, or surrounding intentional mixed-use zoned areas placed by the city government. Teveran Park, for example, is a predominantly Èrlem neighbourhood. Ravathura Row is divided roughly in half between Sarasoviem Coscivians and Kuatem Coscivians, while neighbouring Frāsertren is inhabited by native Kiravian Gaels and Gaelic-speakers of Fiannrian and Urcean origin. Uroms live mainly in low-rent neighbourhoods adjacent to the industrial parks, or in public housing projects on the East End of the city. | ||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||