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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
[[File:Troizen blossom.jpg|thumb|{{wp|Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests|Sclerophyllous and mixed forest}} on | [[File:Troizen blossom.jpg|thumb|{{wp|Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests|Sclerophyllous and mixed forest}} on the island of Chyros]] | ||
The archipelago has a tropical climate with strong oceanic influences overall, with more varied and typically cooler climates created by functions of altitude and local wind patterns shaped by the islands' mountainous topography. The | The archipelago has a tropical climate with strong oceanic influences overall, with more varied and typically cooler climates created by functions of altitude and local wind patterns shaped by the islands' mountainous topography. The four major islands are: Melos (home to the capital, Thyatria), Kommenori (the largest island), Kazomalis (the smallest major island), and Chyros (known for other strengths). | ||
==Politics== | ==Politics== | ||
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| Epaphras Arximeden | | Epaphras Arximeden | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | New Democratic Party ([[ | | style="text-align:center;" | New Democratic Party ([[Federalist Republican Alliance|FRA]]) | ||
| style="text-align:center;" | 21209 | | style="text-align:center;" | 21209 | ||
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==Society & Culture== | ==Society & Culture== | ||
==== | ====Ethnicity==== | ||
The three main ethnic groups living in Istroya are the majority native Istroyan Melotes (78-81% of the population), [[Coscivians]] (9-12% of the population), and "Levantines", with the third term encompassing all Occidental Christians, not just those with roots on the Levantine continent. Smaller numbers of [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Christians]] and Alsharic people also live in the islands. | |||
Some three percent (3%) of the population are Istro-Coscivians with ties to both the Istroyan and Coscivian communities. Istro-Coscivians are officially recognised as a distinct ethnic group and ''tuva'' in the Kiravian Federacy proper, but this recognition has not been extended to the Melian Isles themselves, where members of the community may be registered either as Istroyans or "Melian Coscivians" by the authorities. | |||
The Jethrovians are a small ethnoreligious group that practices a derivative of Pythagorean monotheism. The Jethrovians originated from the Melian Isles, but today only a small community of three thousand remain, mostly in the Ephesian suburb of Midianos. Instead, the majority of Jethrovians today live in the [[Sydona Islands]] and [[Kaviska]]. | |||
====Religion==== | ====Religion==== | ||
Before the arrival of Christianity, the predominant worldview on the islands was {{wp|Pythagoreanism}}. | Before the arrival of Christianity, the predominant worldview on the islands was {{wp|Pythagoreanism}}. | ||
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The majority and first official language of the Melian Isles is {{wp|Greek language|Istroyan}}. Each island is regarded as having its own subdialect of Melian Istroyan, which in general differs from other Istroyan dialects due to linguistic drift and the influence of other languages, particularly Audonian and Coscivian languages. | The majority and first official language of the Melian Isles is {{wp|Greek language|Istroyan}}. Each island is regarded as having its own subdialect of Melian Istroyan, which in general differs from other Istroyan dialects due to linguistic drift and the influence of other languages, particularly Audonian and Coscivian languages. | ||
The Eteo-Melotic language spoken in | The Eteo-Melotic language spoken in the environs of Ephesus by the Jethrovians is {{wp|Lemnian language|poorly classified and treated provisionally as an isolate}}, but has been influenced by Koiné Istroyan, Romance languages, Histan, and latterly by Coscivian. Despite its obscurity and numerically small speech community, Eteo-Melotic has a literary corpus of considerable size and age, though the Jethrovian clerical authorities do not allow most of their scriptures to be studied by outsiders due to a history of persecution. | ||
===General culture and demographics=== | ===General culture and demographics=== | ||
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[[Category:Istroya]] | [[Category:Istroya]] | ||
[[Category:Sub-national Regions in Kiravia]] | [[Category:Sub-national Regions in Kiravia]] | ||
[[Category:Melian Isles]] | |||
[[Category:Map Completion Project]] | [[Category:Map Completion Project]] | ||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||