Patraja
Confederated Republic of Patraja and Her Constituent Provinces Konfederationa Res-Publika Patraeje et Huene Konstitivne Provinke | |
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Patraja, officially the Confederated Republic of Patraja and Her Constituent Provinces, is a country positioned in the south of Sarpedon, neighbored by Cartadania and Volonia, and by unoccupied land to the west. Its natural borders are mainly defined by the Pelian Channel and its offshoot minor rivers, with the river Iunctus running through the northern capital of Patraja, Karneja.
Patraja has been a member of the League of Nations since 2028, and is currently led by President Marija Torenvoa of the Confederal People's Congress. Patraja has generally been located to the far-southern portions of Sarpedon, continually occupied and resistant to various invasions until eventual full-time independence in 1883. As of the 2028 National Census, Patraja has a population of 38 million people, and a national Gross Domestic Product of 4 billion Vitaes.
Patraja is considered to have been founded as a conceptual area by the Latinic General Marcus Patrinius during an expedition to the South of the continent, wherein the general seceded from his kingdom to the north and formed his own Kingdom of Patraea. The artificially-constructed state soon fell to rampaging Slavic invasions to the nearby east, but the name had endured after the general's death in battle as the title of a local region in the area.
After the Latinic Migration to the south of the continent, the region saw continued years of local tribal battle, but the first founding of what could be considered as a similar comparative to modern-day Patraja were the Zanaeslav Agreements, or the Union of Peace, which lasted from 312 BC to 289 BC, and acted as a peace and customs agreement between many southern Slavic and Latinic tribes after decades of turmoil. In late 289, the Agreements were disrupted by continued pillaging from a secondary wave of Latinic migration. It was also during this time where many of the northernmost provinces began to be characterized as more Latin than Slavic, and where cultural tensions reached their peak in Patraja.
A second era of peace, and a formal nation, was created in 260 BC, when local tribal leader Anaeron had expertly maneuvered around his wartime opponents to gain the vast majority of deeply-Patrajan lands. The first formally-created Kingdom of Patarija lasted from 260 BC to 190 BC, and created a First Golden Age of Patraja, wherein the pagan kingdom formed most of what people consider as classical Patrajan culture. During this time, a semi-formal northern border and a rudimentary-but-rigid border control system stopped any serious migrations in and out of the nation. From this came an accidental mixing of cultures, of Slavic and Latinic, into one Patrajan nation. The Patrajan language was thought to have evolved this time, from a mixture of Astari-Slavish and Dominian-Latin - the two most prevalent language groups in the nation at the time. King Anaeron passed on his crown to his son, Maxin, in 235 BC. Maxin died an early death, and handed rule after a short interlude period of violence to his 17-year old son, Proktrii.
In 190 BC, the three-generational royal family of Patraja were overthrown by a mob after the Rape of Mariana by Proktrii. Mariana was a famed civil servant, and a rare woman of the state at the time, and was held up as a martyr of the masses as reason to abolish the current royal family. By the time of the end of the chaos, however, so many had declared themselves leader or co-king that mass confusion was abound. In particular, an old myth says that a local villager attempted to make his goat the Chancellor to the King. From 190 BC to 188-187 BC, tribal disunity essentially tore the Kingdom of Patarija into pieces.
After unrest, and several wars, many tribal leaders came together to form the Patrajan Republic of Peoples. Though not the actual name of the state, as no official name was given, the term "Patraja" first entered usage at this stage, mostly as a synonym for "The People within Patarija," whilst the actual regional name persisted to be Patarija. This union of peoples was seen as the first democratic enclave of the southern portion of the continent, and slowly expanded from 187 BC to 180 BC to envelop the whole of the formerly-royal lands, whether through negotiation or forced annexation. Notably, the term Konsal, or the anglicized Consul, entered into use in the Republic around this time, mostly referring to a figurehead-leader of a gathering of tribes. At many moments in the Republic, there were multiple Konsal's representing different tribes - and at other times, there was one that seemed to represent them all.
The Patrajan Republic of Peoples lasted until the Second Kingdom's founding in 70 BC, and is considered the official start of the formal Middle Antiquarian histories of Patraja.
Etymology
The word "Patraja" is a word that's been famously kept good track of. Whether through the bureaucratic and obscure leanings of the Patrajan culture, or by coincidental knowledge, much is known about the term. The first ancestor of the word is thought to descend from the Latinic general Marcus Patrinius, who founded the short-lived Kingdom of Patraea. Since that point, many refer to the more Slavic word of Patarija as a generally-kept local euphemism for the region in which the kingdom used to reside in. Patarija had kept regular use as the name of the local region, and then the nation, for centuries afterward, with "Patraja" first materializing in the first republican governments of the nation as a term to refer to peoples within the region of Patarija. Since that point, the two words had gradually fused together into a simple "Patraja". After Christianization and a full Latinization of the nation's etymological terms since the founding of Christianity, Patraja had seen a primary use. In 45 AC, "Patraja" was recognized as the legal name of the nation within the Third Kingdom.
History
Patraja has generally been considered a black sheep of the Sarpedonian continent, continually attempting and failing to unify into one national state. With a famed history of both republicanism and monarchism, as well as experimental forms of governance and confederacy, Patraja has had an equal mixture of eras of development and unification along with eras of chaos and invasion.
Latin Migration and The Zanaeslav Union
Patraja was originally settled as a Latin-Slavic warground after the collapse of the short-lived Kingdom of Patraea. In this melting pot of aggressive warring areas and mixing tribes, the unique Latinic-Slavic culture of Patraja first emerged in peace during the Zanaeslav Agreements, or the Union of Peace, which lasted from 312 BC to 289 BC. This tribal agreement of union and confederacy was a general peace and customs agreement and began the first sightings of a unique Patrajan culture, with an increase in migration and intermixing between the native Slavic and immigrating Latin peoples. The northern sections of Patraja in particular, though sharing a distinctly-Latin lean, were the first to unify into what was considered a true Patrajan nation. This area, perhaps in accordance to this, also partook very little in the chaos that followed after the collapse of the Agreements. Through various Latin, or perhaps Slavic, provocations unknown to historians at this time, the Agreements collapsed into tribal anarchy once more, lasting from 289 BC to 260 BC. Not much is known about the early history of the Latins and Slavs within the southern Sarpedonian continent, and even less is known about the various details leading up to the first signs of organization, but after 260 BC, more clear signs of both Patrajan culture and governance emerge.
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