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Until about the 21040s, the island continent was simply referred to as ''Kiravia'', a name derived from the Kiygrava River where [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian]] explorers established their first permanent presence on the continent. As the era of Kiravian overseas expansion beginning in 20919 matured and the Kiravian settler colonies were admitted to the Federacy as full states, the need to distinguish between the Kiravian Federacy as a whole and the island continent in particular arose, leading many authors to add the honorific ''Ambrix'' ("Great", "noble") to the name. | Until about the 21040s, the island continent was simply referred to as ''Kiravia'', a name derived from the Kiygrava River where [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian]] explorers established their first permanent presence on the continent. As the era of Kiravian overseas expansion beginning in 20919 matured and the Kiravian settler colonies were admitted to the Federacy as full states, the need to distinguish between the Kiravian Federacy as a whole and the island continent in particular arose, leading many authors to add the honorific ''Ambrix'' ("Great", "noble") to the name. | ||
Residents of Great Kirav are usually called ''Kiravites'' (Kiravic: ''Kiraviēxtya'') rather than ''Great Kiravians'', though the latter term has seen some use. People from Great Kirav who no longer live there, especially first-generation colonists in the Federacy's overseas possessions, are called ''Kiraviēþûrix'' ("Kiravborn") or '' | Residents of Great Kirav are usually called ''Kiravites'' (Kiravic: ''Kiraviēxtya'') rather than ''Great Kiravians'', though the latter term has seen some use. People from Great Kirav who no longer live there, especially first-generation colonists in the Federacy's overseas possessions, are called ''Kiraviēþûrix'' ("Kiravborn") or ''iodevahomax'' ("islocontinental"). | ||
Kiravians often refer to Grat Kirav as '' | Kiravians often refer to Grat Kirav as ''iodevahoma'' ("the island-continent"), ''hátihoma'' ("the mainland"), or ''brôdahoma'' ("the homeland"). | ||
In both political/cultural and geographic/geological contexts, the term "Great Kirav" includes both the main landmass of the island continent and the adjacent islands. | In both political/cultural and geographic/geological contexts, the term "Great Kirav" includes both the main landmass of the island continent and the adjacent islands. | ||
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===Northern Fringe=== | ===Northern Fringe=== | ||
[[File:Northern Fringe Map.png|thumb|Approximate extent of the Northern Fringe.]] | [[File:Northern Fringe Map.png|thumb|Approximate extent of the Northern Fringe.]] | ||
Also known as the '''North Coast''' and the '''Hockey Belt''', the '''Northern Fringe''' extends along the [[Coscivian Sea]] coast of Great Kirav from [[Mariava]] (where it overlaps with Zone B) to [[ | Also known as the '''North Coast''' and the '''Hockey Belt''', the '''Northern Fringe''' extends along the [[Coscivian Sea]] coast of Great Kirav from [[Mariava]] (where it overlaps with Zone B) to [[Devahoma]], and is generally held to extend roughly 2-4 countyships inland along this span, depending on longitude, before merging into the Mid-Continental region. The climate of the North Coast is cold and harsh, classified as cool continental or subarctic in some places and subpolar oceanic in others, particularly islands like Tharvia. The ecologically hemiboreal belt stretching across northern Great Kirav is roughly coëxtensive with the cultural transition zone between the North Coast and Mid-Continental areas. | ||
The long-established Coscivian inhabitants of the Northern Fringe are known as [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Arnórian Coscivians|Arnórian Coscivians]]. Arnórian Coscivians remain the majority or plurality group in most countyships on the Northern Fringe, and residents of other ethnic backgrounds have come to adopt much of Arnórian culture and even partially assimilate into an Arnórian identity. | The long-established Coscivian inhabitants of the Northern Fringe are known as [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Arnórian Coscivians|Arnórian Coscivians]]. Arnórian Coscivians remain the majority or plurality group in most countyships on the Northern Fringe, and residents of other ethnic backgrounds have come to adopt much of Arnórian culture and even partially assimilate into an Arnórian identity. | ||
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[[File:Bad kleinkirchheim.jpg|thumb|idk]] | [[File:Bad kleinkirchheim.jpg|thumb|idk]] | ||
The Eastern Highlands (Kiravic: '' | The Eastern Highlands (Kiravic: ''Érþaixtihoma'') cultural region encompasses the Aterandic Mountains, their foothills, and some adjacent lowland areas. | ||
Settled by groups of Coscivians (especially Ĥeldican Coscivians), Gaels, and Prythons who intermarried extensively with the local aboriginal population... | Settled by groups of Coscivians (especially Ĥeldican Coscivians), Gaels, and Prythons who intermarried extensively with the local aboriginal population... | ||