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The Brudxaan area was first settled by humans in the period of the 6000s BC along with neighboring [[Quetzenkel]] and parts of [[Varshan]]. | The Brudxaan area was first settled by humans in the period of the 6000s BC along with neighboring [[Quetzenkel]] and parts of [[Varshan]]. | ||
The city of Čak Qozal was established in the 12th century BC at the southwestern base of the Brudxaan peninsula. The early history of the city is not generally well understood. Much of its history has been recorded later in light of [[Varshan#Anzoite_period|Varshani history]], under which context it was portrayed as a so-called "sister Varshan". Historians do agree that the city came to be the regional power in what is today New Veltorina for around a millennium, with its territory extending across the Brudxaan peninsula and soft-power influence spreading to the east across what would become central New Veltorina, as well as down into the northwestern corner of modern Varshan. | The city of Čak Qozal was established in the 12th century BC at the southwestern base of the Brudxaan peninsula. The early history of the city is not generally well understood. Much of its history has been recorded later in light of [[Varshan#Anzoite_period|Varshani history]], under which context it was portrayed as a so-called "sister Varshan". Historians do agree that the city came to be the regional power in what is today New Veltorina for around a millennium, with its territory extending across the Brudxaan peninsula and soft-power influence spreading to the east across what would become central New Veltorina, as well as down into the northwestern corner of modern Varshan. Čak Qozal came under the political domination of [[Anzo]] by the year 1 AD, and there are two conflicting stories regarding this change in status, both of which sometimes appear [[Varshani historiography|recorded by the same source]]. In the first version, a deity - sometimes the sun god, later the death god - appeared in the center of the city and left a crown similar to that worn by the ruler of Anzo. When the Anzo ruler (Zurg) came to the city next week, he was hailed as new lord of the city and it subjected himself to it. The second version has a number of variations but involves a {{wp|Moses}}-like story about an Anzo prince who was born in anonymity in Čak Qozal only to return later, become Zurg, and wage a heroic war against Čak Qozal in which the city ultimately fell. In any event, the entire territory that was once under Čak Qozal's influence war part of Varshan by the 1st century AD, and for the next milennia it would form the northernmost periphery of Varshani influence. The degree to which cultural changes occurred during this period is not known. The traditional Varshani history recounts that the people of Čak Qozal were as Varshani as the people from Anzo from the beginning of time, an account highly doubted by most modern Occidental historians. | ||
The eastern hinterlands and northern | The eastern hinterlands and northern coastal region (referred to historians as the "periphery") were settled by the Quetzen people not long after they established a written culture and urban society in Quetzenkel, and the predecessor of the modern Quetzen language is recorded in this region as of the 1st century AD. The Quetzen settlement of the area varied over time. At times, nomadic tribes in the area served as tributaries of far-off Quetzen trade cities, and at other times direct settlement of the area occurred with the Quetzen people's furthest flung western cities being in the territory. Historians agree that the majority of the nomadic peoples living in the area were not Quetzen as of the 8th or 9th century AD but were significantly influenced by them, with Quetzen peoples only being in the easternmost fringe of this territory. The influence was such that the Quetzen language became the lingua franca of modern New Veltorina by the 12th century and was used as a trade language even in the city of Čak Qozal. | ||
The periphery was [[Zurgite Varshan#Conquest_of_the_North|conquered by Varshan]] in [[1525]]. This region became a critical point which allowed Varshan to project its influence across the [[Nysdra Sea]] into [[Venua'tino]], greatly enriching Čak Qozal. | |||
In the 20th century, the [[Zurgite Varshan#Dynastic_collapse|collapse of Varshan's Yun-harle dynasty]] critically weakened the state. Several foreign powers, especially [[Daxia]], encouraged [[Quetzenkel]] to annex the Brudxaan Province in order to establish a so-called [[Quetzenkel#Varshan_gradient|"Varshan gradient"]] that would buffer [[Cusinaut]] from Varshan. The annexation occurred in [[1962]]. | |||
===The Diaspora and Cronan settlement=== | ===The Diaspora and Cronan settlement=== | ||