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| title                    = 1959 Istrenyan Civil Crisis
 
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The '''history of Dericania''' is primarily related to the history of [[Levantia]] as well as that of both [[Great Levantia]] and the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], the latter of which originated out of and was based in Dericania. While being home to a diverse number of southern Levantine peoples and ethnic groups, much of the history of Dericania in recent centuries has dealt with questions of [[Derian identity]], which became a primary driving factor in world history and was an underlying cause for both the [[Second Great War]] as well as the earlier establishment of [[Burgundie]] as an independent nation.
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== Prehistoric Eastern Levantia ==
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3.3 million years ago to the advent of consistent Oral law, the earliest of which appeared c. 3200BC
| caption                  = (Clockwise from top left) Members of 7 Rifle Brigade's [[Royal Moorden Regiment]] are extracted from Eastern Istrenya via helicopter; [[Arcer Army]] service members are dropped off near the Line of Contact (LOC) to conduct stabilisation operations; Indigenous protestors clash with Instrenyan National Policemen in the capitol during the 1959 Riots.
 
| duration                = 1959-1961; 3 years
=== Stone Age ===
| date                    = <!-- {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{start and end dates|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
 
| also_known_as            = Istrenyan Crisis; First Istrenyan Civil War; Malentine Crisis
==== Palaeolithic ====
| type                    = Civil War
 
| cause                    = Communist and Popular Uprising
==== Mesolithic ====
| participants            = [[Arcerion]]</br>[[Istrenya]]</br>Various Insurgent/Political Groups
 
| outcome                  = Status quo; Communist Revolt suppressed, Indigenous Populist Government maintains power.
==== Neolithic ====
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The '''1959 Istrenyan Civil Crisis''', also known as the '''First Istrenyan Civil War''' or the '''Malentine Crisis''' was an armed rebellion by the National Instrenyan People's Front (NIPF) during the 20th century between 1959-1961 in the Southern [[Crona|Cronan]] nation of Istrenya.  
==== Chalcolithic ====
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=== Bronze Age ===
 
=== Iron Age ===
==Ancient history==
[[File:Classical Dericania map.png|400px|right|thumb|Major players in Classical Dericania from 3200BC-598AD. Please note that "Gallawa" is incorrectly labeled on this map as a shortland for various [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] polities.]]
3200BC-598AD
 
Prior to the organization of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], including during the period of [[Great Levantia|Great Levantine]] domination, "Dericania" as a cohesive geographical area in terms of polity and history did not exist. Historians have grouped together events largely by region - Northern, Southern, and Eastern Dericania - to convey the relevant actors, social movements, linked cultures, and individual historical figures that interacted with one another.
 
===Pre-conquest Dericania===
The historiographical term "pre-conquest Dericania" refers to the period prior to the arrival of the [[Adonerii]] and subsequent rise of [[Great Levantia]].
====Kingdom of the Ipari Impaxi ====
2800BC-164AD
 
=== Classical Antiquity and the Great Levantine period ===
{{Main|Great Levantia}}
====Eastern Dericania====
===== First Kingdom of the Burdeboch =====
 
527BC-285AD
 
===== The Bergenddium =====
 
150AD-598AD
 
In [[158]], Julian Marcilius Corvus, now styled Bergendus, was crowned the first high-king of the '''Bergenddium'''. While often seen as the first formal state that would become [[Burgundie]], the Bergenddium was a cultural empire rather than a legal kingdom. As such, the title of high king was more of an honor given to men of distinction than a royal appointment with set roles and responsibilities. The only task undertaken by all of the high kings, and often the reason that later high kings where chosen, was to negotiate peace deals with larger Kiro-Levantine powers.
 
In [[164]], Julian Marcilius Corvus Bergendus commissioned a map of the Bergenddium which included all of the [[Ile Burgundie]], most of the coast of modern [[Marialanus]] and some settlements along the coasts of [[Dericania]] and [[Fiannria]].
 
Disparate emporium and [[Adonerum|Adonerii]]  ports along the coast of [[Dericania]] began to centralize around their shared culture. This is seen as the divergence of the [[Bergendii]] from the general pool of [[Adonerum|Adonerii Latinics]]. They formed a few small private armies and navies to further the goals of the [[Bergendii]] merchants in the area. They refused to see a single monolithic central government, but often came to each other's aid and involved themselves in each other's politics, especially around trade agreements.
 
In the 130s an enterprising merchant, Julian Marcilius Corvus, formed an army in the naissant port of Nordarmus and marched inland to push the Impaxi tribes from the interior and ultimately on to Levantia. Over the next 20 years, his army was able to crush any opposition and then to push the Impaxi to the coast near Biscainhos. In 153 a joint Impaxi/Levzeish force crushed Corvus' forces. He escaped with only 75 men and his train. In 155 Corvus returned with a large navy and besieged Biscainhos, catching its navy in the harbor. After a three year siege and numerous heavy bombardments, the first sea-to-land naval bombardments in southern Levantine history, Corvus' forces forced the Impaxi/Levzeish population to surrender. As part of the surrender agreement the Impaxi and Levzeish were banished from Ipar and resettled on the coast of southern Levantia.
 
====Southern Dericania====
 
===== Confederation of Medestophanese =====
 
285AD-598AD Istroyan city-states
 
===== Tyranny of Phaxolos =====
 
134AD-285AD
 
====Northern Dericania====
=====Gallawa=====
Gallawa was a large confederation of Christianized [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] tribes and kingdoms that existed in the north of modern [[Dericania]] and south of modern [[Fiannria]] from the late 4th to 8th centuries AD. Gallawa was originally conceived as a loose alliance of Gaelic polities which had both broken into and settled [[Great Levantia]] from the north, those who had lived as foederati subjects in specific lands of Dericania, and a smaller number of mostly uncontacted tribes living in the hills and deep forested parts of northeaster Dericania. The alliance seems to have been intended as a means to consolidate Gaelic holdings in previously Great Levantine lands, but the alliance persisted beyond the latter's collapse. Gallawa supplanted Great Levantia as the major power in Dericania by around 450 AD, and its mandate switched from defensive to offensive, expanding its borders and incorporating other tribes under its sway by force of arms. Increasingly, the confederate nature of the alliance became centralized under the control of a family that would become known as the [[Conine dynasty]], who were responsible for leading Gallawa through the collapse of the Levantines.
 
Gallawa experienced a major population boom at the end of the 7th century and began rapid and aggressive expansion, particularly against the [[Latin League]] and [[Hištanšahr]], the latter with limited success. Following decades of skirmishing and raids, [[Conchobar I, Emperor of the Levantines|King Conchobar]] lead the armies of Gallawa west into [[The Valley (Urcea)|the former heartlands of Great Levantia]]. Although initial successes by the Latin League under the leadership of [[Gaius Julius Cicurinus]] slowed Gallawa's advance, his replacement by the Latin League resulted in its complete destruction as Gallawa overcame most of the Latinic cities in the Valley. Following his peaceful seizure of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]], Conchobar reformed Gallawa into the [[Holy Levantine Empire|Levantine Empire]], which would be ruled by the Conine dynasty for the next century and a half.
 
==Early Imperial period==
=== Audonian invasion ===
{{Main|Hištanšahr}}
 
===Center of an Empire===
===Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines===
In 917, upon the death of the [[Emperor of the Levantines|Emperor]] Brian III, the [[Holy Levantine Empire|Levantine Empire]] under the [[Conine dynasty]] was partitioned into three parts, roughly corresponding to modern day [[Urcea]], [[Carna]], and [[Dericania]], with the latter portion known as the Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines.  Passing from the Conine dynasty to the Leonine dynasty, [[Emperor Leo I of the Holy Levantine Empire|King Leo]], reformed the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] in [[965]] with his conquest of the [[Southern Kingdom of the Levantines]], reunifying most of the realm and receiving subsequent recognition of the [[Pope]]. Historians debate when the name "''Dericania''" entered common use for the realm, but the "Eastern Kingdom" nomenclature was largely extinct by the late 11th century. The [[Kingdom of Dericania]] resulted from this shift, and would continue to exist until the end of the Empire in the 20th century.
 
===High Medieval Dericania===
While the [[Emperor of the Levantines]] used Dericania and its crown possession, [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]], as a successful base of power from the 10th to the 14th century, the Kingdom mostly devolved into an area with the least central authority in the Empire by the 1400s. Several reasons are cited for the decline in crown power, but the fall primarily came the demise of the {{wp|stem duchies}} dependent on Imperial support and the rise of hundreds of varied dynastic estates made the Kingdom administratively unwieldy and difficulty to govern.
917-1575
 
==== Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines ====
Main article: [[Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines]]
 
917-965
 
==== Bishopric of Bonavix ====
 
 
926-1847
 
* part of the Holy Levantine Empire
 
==== Kingdom of Eagaria ====
 
 
936-1071
 
==== Archbishopric of Rabascall-Bergendia ====
Main article: List_of_Rulers_of_Burgundie § Archbishopric_of_Rabascall-Bergendia
 
 
937-1264
 
* part of the Holy Levantine Empire
 
Upon the collapse of the Alvarus dynasty in 935 the clergy interceded as enforcers of public order. They drafted a militia and established courts, effectively taking control of the island. In 936, the bishop of Rabascall, a small coastal bishopric on mainland Levantia seized the opportunity to support the Archbishop of Bergendia with a militia drafted from his fief. He was able to quell the revolt in Vilauristre and the southeastern coast within a month but had orders to cease all activity as he was undermining the Archbishop's authority by being so successful. Rather than heed the order he marched to Vilauristre and seized the archdioceses buildings. Holding the Archbishop hostage, he demanded that the Pope intercede and name him the Archbishop of Bergendia as well as Rabascall. The letter never arrived at the Holy See, but at that point the Bishop of Rabascall had the Archbishop killed for inciting public unrest and heresy.
 
==== Holy Levantine Empire ====
 
===== Luciusian Dynasty =====
1036-1134
 
===== Crusades in Sarpedon =====
Main article: Crusades
 
1095–1291 The Luciusian reign was notable for the initiation of the Crusades in Sarpedon, in 1095. The Crusades consolidated the identity of the Empire and rested much more power in the Emperor. The various princelings who campaigned together began to see beyond their narrow fiefdoms and understand the vastness and diversity of the Empire but also of their commonality with each other. They all spoke Latin as well as their local tongue, they all worshiped in the same Church with the same rites. Some scholars have posited that the 12th century was the cultural birth of the Imperial identity.
=====[[Great Confessional War]]=====
 
==== Kingdom of Gassavelia ====
Main article: Kingdom of Gassavelia
 
 
1071–1568 War of the Three Princes, in 1071. Seoirge was crowned as the first King of Gassavelia by the Pope, incorporating the realm into the Empire. Removing the need to watch the southern border of the Empire, successive emperors looked northward and set about an age of expansionism across Levantia.
 
==== Vilauristre Conference ====
[[File:VilConfFlag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1204]]-[[1575]] Hanseatic League like group of cities in eastern [[Kingdom of Dericania]] 1427, Universitas Magistrorum in [[Port Diteaux]] [[1429]]- [[Order of the Obsidian Sparrow]], [[Crusades]]
 
==== County of Bergendia ====
[[File:BergendiaFlag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1264]]-[[1549]]
 
===== House of Palacin-Port Diteaux =====
Template:House of Palacin-Port Diteaux
 
Main articles: List_of_Rulers_of_Burgundie § Palacin-Port Diteaux_Dynasty, and Palacin-Port Diteaux Dynasty
 
1264-1418 Palacin-Port Diteaux Dynasty
 
==== Bishopric of Mattiusvale ====
 
 
1264-1463
 
==== Duchy of Burgondia ====
[[File:BourgondiaFlag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1463]]-[[1575]]
 
==== Order of the Obsidian Sparrow ====
Main article: [[Order of the Obsidian Sparrow]]
 
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Founded in 1429, on the modern island province of Drusla, then known as Isulae Isti. They held the town of Hadua from 1429 until 1574. With the raising of the Joanusterrium to a Most Serene Duchy and election of Joanus de Martigueux to Grand Master of the Order, they retired from Hadua and moved their capital to Collinebourg.
 
==== Duchy of Marialanus ====
[[File:Duchy_of_Maurlianus_flag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1438]]-[[1874]]
 
=====[[Great Confessional War]]=====
[[1555]] - [[1575]]
====== Plague of 1561 ======
====== Plague of 1571 ======
===== [[Truffle Races]] =====
[[1574]] - [[1593]]
 
====Colonial ventures====
[[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company (MUTC)]] established:
*[[Ayermer|Ayermer colony]] ([[1616]]-????)
*[[Kandoora colony]] ([[1600]]-[[1795]])
*[[Far East Colony]] ([[1638]]-[[1817]])
*[[Barbary Straits colony]] ([[1635]]-[[1836]])
*[[Torlen|Torlen colony]] (???? - [[1875]])
 
==== County Palatine of Estia ====
[[File:County_Palatine_of_Estia_Flag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1439]]-[[1851]]
 
==== Great Confessional War ====
Main article: [[Great Confessional War]]
 
1555-1575
 
==Late Imperial period==
===Renaissance Dericania===
While several attempts at reform were made in the 1490s, lack of central authority was permanently established because of the {{wp|Protestant Reformation}}. Despite its lack of tangible political authority, Dericania was by far considered the most prestigious of the constituent Kingdoms of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], and a majority of [[List of Emperors of the Levantines|Emperors of the Levantines]] were elected from Dericania.
 
During the [[Great Confessional War]], the lands of Dericania were ravaged by war. Significant outbreaks of disease and widespread famine were a result of the conflict, greatly weakening Dericania and making most of the Kingdom significantly poorer. Many nobles and lords lost their fiefs and significant amount of territory changed hands during the [[Dragonnades]] as Protestant families were displaced by those loyal to the victorious [[Holy League]].
 
=== Age of Discovery ===
==== Trade Company Empires ====
Main article: [[Burgoignesc Colonial Empire]]
 
As part of this new period of self-rule, the Dukes created a series of trading companies that sought to raise the clout of the duchy and enrich themselves. They pushed the bounds of the maritime technology at the time and traveled around the world looking for fertile trade and investment opportunities. The largest and most storied companies were the Burgundian West Punth Trading Company and the Burgundian Grand Crona Trading Company. Unlike the other trading companies, these two set out on a path of colonization that, at their heights, covered all of Alshar and large swaths of south-central Crona.
 
=== Duchy of Martilles ===
[[File:Duchy of Martilles flag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1575]]-[[1869]]
 
===== [[Truffle Races]] =====
[[1578]] - [[1601]]
 
====Colonial ventures====
[[Burgoignesc North Levantine Trading Company|Martillien North Levantine Trading Company (MNLC)]] established:
*[[Eloillette]] ([[1611]]-[[1795]])
*[[Chaukhira|Chaukhira colony]] (tbd)
*[[Veraise colony]] ([[1593]] - [[1812]])
*[[Nauta Normand|Nauta Normand colony]] (tbd)
*[[Wintergen|Wintergen colony]] ([[1823]]-[[1869]])
 
=== County Palatine of Pumbria ===
[[File:County_Palatine_of_Pumbria_Flag.png|200px|right]]
 
[[1575]]-[[1863]]
 
The county was brutally unified with [[Burgundie]] in the [[First Fratricide]] despite a strong anti-mediatization stance.
 
=== County of Le Ax-Canbon ===
 
 
1575-1850


Inspired by other socialist movements during the same decade, it began in April 1959 when a pair of Arcer diplomatic officials were assaulted by a mob, angered over recent increases in tariffs on Istrenyan agricultural exports to the Occidental nation. Heavy-handed responses by the national police and security forces led to more civilian and military deaths, as well as a continued escalation in the riots. Formal complaints by the Arcer government to the Istrenyan President's office resulted in a severe scalation in 1960, and with continued attacks on [[Occidental world|Occidentals]], the Arcer government formally issued a notice to the Istrenyan government that it would conduct a military intervention to stabilise the situation.
=== Duchy of Bourgondi ===
[[File:BourgondiFlag.png|200px|right]]
[[1575]]-[[1853]]


By 1961, the crisis had stabilized, and the [[Government of Arcerion|Arcer government]] was able to close its embassy and consulates in Istrenya, as well as withdraw the joint military task force it had deployed to the region. In the crisis' wake, the Istrenyan government managed to remain in power with assistance from the [[Office of Public Safety and National Security]].
===== [[Truffle Races]] =====
== Background ==
[[1576]] - [[1602]]
Istrenya was never under direct colonial rule from any Levantine or Sarpedonian nations, however mercantile influence had often relegated it to inconsistent economic growth and recurring bouts of recession and economic strife. Traditionally the maritime economy Istrenya enjoyed was primarily based on fishing, simple agriculture, and raw mineral and natural resource extraction, however with the expansion of modern Occidental corporations in the 19th and 20th centuries, these companies grew to inherit large amounts of influence over the Istrenyan government. Most prominent amongst these were corporations from Arcerion, located directly across from Istrenya across the [[Warrington Strait]] and [[Malentine Sea]]. Following the end of the [[Second Great War]] and the rise of decolonization amongst many smaller Indigenous nations and their colonies, Istrenya saw a rise of socialist and liberal movements aimed at toppling the existing Populist government under President A'kale Treo.


Increased activity amongst Indigenous peoples promoting Indigenous Nationalism had spread from Varshan into South Crona, with similar movements occurring in Porlos and Kelekona. During the Second Great War, Indigenous nations reinforced their neutral positions by refusing to allow many warships and airplanes from Arcerion and other Allied nations from using their facilities. It was assessed that communist and syndicalist sympathizers, foreign fighters, and ideological radicals from other Indigenous nations moved to Istrenya anticipating a much larger conflict, however the limited political success in the 1958 Istrenyan Elections meant that there was a limited perceived legitimate political base for liberal and socialist thought, and the majority of the dissidents were native Istrenyans.
====Colonial ventures====
== Crisis ==
[[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company (BRTC)]] established:
[[File:Istrenya Map.png|thumb|Map of Istrenya in 1959.]]
*[[Colony of Santasi]] ([[1646]]-[[1721]])
In April of 1959, two Arcer diplomatic officials were out in the large Southern Istrenyan town of Madara, John Francis (Deputy Ambassador) and Nathan Phillips (Head of Development, Istrenya), were having dinner at the Hotel Chekila, an Occidental-owned establishment frequented by members of the Levantine and Southern Cronan elite. Several disenfranchised members of a local farmer's union, frustrated at their protest over tariff increases were frustrated by the police breaking up their strike, and on their walk home encountered Francis and Phillips having dinner on the hotel's outdoor street patio. After a short verbal altercation, Francis and Phillips were violently attacked and beaten, suffering serious injuries that had both in the hospital in critical condition for weeks.
*[[Pukhgundi colony]] ([[1635]]-[[1811]])
*[[Istroya Oriental colony]] ([[1577]]-[[1842]])
*[[Kandahari-Pukhtun colony]] ([[1615]]-1830s)
*[[Sudmoll|Sudmoll colony]] ([[1702]]-[[1876]])
**[[Farmandie]] ([[1712]]-[[1745]] and [[1789]]-[[1824]])
*[[Islevenin colony]] (???? - [[1899]])
*[[Medimeria|Medimeria colony]] ([[1578]]-[[2014]])
*[[Equitorial Ostiecia|Equitorial Ostiecia colony]] (tbd)


A formal protest was lodged by the Arcer ambassador within twenty four hours, and as a result President Treo cracked down using the Istrenyan National Police. The police broke up multiple union meetings and protests, including several that had the correct permits and permissions. The end result was a massive wave of bad publicity and news articles for the Presidential office, including numerous new protests and open street riots against the police slowly escalating in size and damages to public and private property.
===Early modern Dericania===
=== 1959 Riots ===
During the late 18th and 19th century, the rise of [[Burgundie]] and the [[First Fratricide]] lead to chaos and disorder in Dericania that would continue until its demise in the 20th century.
The 1959 Riots began in earnest by June 1st, with organized peaceful protests in five major towns and cities taking place, primarily along the interior and Western portions of Istrenya. Politically, Eastern Istrenya, which was geographically closer to Arcerion was more friendly and had more Occidental sympathetic, leading to a significant portion of the population disagreeing with the mass protests of the West and central highlands.
===Caroline Wars and Fratricides===
[[File:1959 Riots.png|thumb|Street protestors in Sofrine protest against the Populist government in the summer of 1959. ]]
====Vorenian union====
National Police forces clashed violently for several weeks, with dozens of civilians dying a ay in the towns of Iraso and Mogtepeni, both of which were seriously affected by riots and paralyzed by street violence. An organization of unions in Iraso banded together. A collection of farmer's unions, mechanics unions, and foreign members of the Malentine Socialist Party. Self-named, the National Instrenyan People's Front (NIPF) was founded and headed by a former aide to President Treo, Ma'kle Tytosh, who had also previously served as a member of the Istrenyan National Guard. With a lack of weapons equipment, he entreated his foreign socialist and syndicalist counterparts to donate weapons, equipment, and instructors. Camps were set up in the Western Portion of Istrenya, in order to assist with the training of Liberation Battalions.
Following the defeat of Emperor Louis in the [[War of the Caroline Succession]], the Grand Duchy of [[Verecundia]] was dissolved into its constituent parts, Lower and Upper Verecundia. By 1790, Lower Verecundia was inherited by the House Drusus-Orient, Dukes of Vorenia. As the princes of Dericania formed a conspiracy to oust [[House de Weluta]] from the throne of the [[Emperor of the Levantines]], Vorenia-Lower Verecundia remained loyal during the uprising of Upper Verecundia. For their loyalty, Emperor Louis X of House de Weluta granted House Drusus-Orient the Grand Ducal dignity, fusing the two realms together. Drusus-Orient remained loyal to the de Welutas during the Second Caroline War, partly due to their enmity with the [[Bergendii]] states to the southeast supporting the cause of Emperor Mauricio I. Magnanimous in victory, the Emperor allowed the Grand Duchy of Lower Verecundia and Vorenia to remain undivided following the conclusion of the war.
Riots continued in the Eastern half of Istrenya, with the raging street battles destroying pubic transports and public services. Sofrine had both the Town Hall and the National Guard Barracks attacked with fireworks as well as a significant amount of firebombs. Despite heavy losses rom College Students from the nearby Agricultural University, of whom forty died and twice that number were wounded, Sofrine's Populist Government was expelled. Concurrent to the battles raging in Sofrine, the 1st Liberation Battalion left its camp and instigated riots in Iraso, culminating with the Arcer Consulate being attacked. However, members of the [[Royal Arcerion Constabulary]] were able to repel the attackers, but transmissions via High-Frequency (HF) radio to the embassy in Karaba made it clear that the riots and civil urnest in the West were becoming a grave danger to Arcer citizens.  
[[File:Spring 1960 Map 2.png|thumb|Map of Populist-controlled areas and NIPF-controlled areas as of Spring, 1960 in Istrenya. Note the Iraso pocket where the Arcer consulate was located. ]]
By the fall of 1959, Tytosh's NIPF members, along with local unions, socialist and liberal university students, and foreign fighters began the March to Karaba, a movement politicized and publicized as the means from which they would free Istrenya from foreign corporate and political interference. Starting in late September 1959, Tytosh's forces left Iraso, and quickly overran the National Police garrisons in Mogtopeni by the end of October, with Lokokeha succumbing to the 2nd and 3rd Liberation Battalions a week later. By the first week of December 1959, Enunana had begun to see an increase in labour union activity and it was assessed by members of the [[Arcerion Foreign Office]] that Tytosh's forces had begun the process to isolate the city from outside assistance. The incompetence of the National Police Forces and the Istrenyan National Guard meant that Arcerion was rapidly being forced to become involved by New Year's Eve, 1959.
=== Arcerion's Response ===
By January 1st, Prime Minister Nathaniel T. MacCallough, one of Arcerion's first post-war Prime Ministers concluded that the situation in Istrenya posed a clear and present danger to the interests of Arcerion and the safety of her citizens. By the end of the first week of January MacCallough had summoned the [[Arcer Admiralty]] and the Arcer General Staff to the Confederate Parliament for secret meetings to discuss military options. The conclusion that was a joint task force comprised of an escort carrier group, tactical helicopter squadrons, naval strike aircraft, and two army brigades (7 & 8 Rifle Brigades) with additional clandestine support from the Office of Public Safety and National Security. The initial phase of the war would see members of the Arcerion Commando Regiment (ACR) and Special Arcerion Service Regiment (SASR) would be airdropped into Enunana to delay the Liberation Battalions advance along the coast as part of the March to Karaba.
The campaign was set to see the initial deployment begin by March of 1960, and the military quickly ramped up to begin the deployment to secure the Arcer Embassy in Karaba, as well as prepare for the evacuation of the Arcer Consular staff in Iraso.  
=== Operation Insolent ===
By early March the Joint Task Force, under Major General Timothy McAdams, a veteran of the Second Great War and [[Operation Lightfoot]], had set up their headquarters in Hotel Chekila, the town of Madara. Hundreds of Arcer soldiers were being airlifted in every day, however concerns over the deployment of heavy equipment such as tanks and artillery raised fears and concerns with the Arcer government over the public perception of using such force in what was essentially being sold to the public as a police action and counter-insurgency operation. 7 and 8 Rifle Brigades set up outside Karaba, and prepared for their respective deployments. McAdams moved his tactical headquarters to Karaba to work out of the Arcer Embassy in Karaba, so as to co-locate with the Ambassador and have consistent communication with the Arcer general staff. Once provisional field hospitals, helicopter landing sites, and supply depots had been roughly constructed and were functional, the Army was prepared by the end of March to begin the counter-attacks out towards the West.
[[File:8 Rifle Coastal Campaign.jpg|thumb|Members of the Norham Light Infantry engage socialist Liberation Battalion troops West of Enunana, Istrenya in the summer of 1960. ]]
During the deployment of the Arcer troops to Eastern Istrenya, A and B Companies from the Arcer Commando Regiment, numbering approximately two hundred men, were inserted via helicopter to Iraso to defend the Arcer embassy. While the perimeter of Iraso was being held by members of the Istrenyan National Guard, Arcer special forces advisors assisted them by directing airstrikes from naval aircraft against NIPF positions. The Commandos would be instrumental for holding the Iraso pocket until eventually relieved by regular Arcer forces. The navy also conducted a considerable amount of strikes in Lokokeja to disrupt the trucks and rail used by NIPF forces to resupply the four Liberation Battalions currently laying siege to Enunana.  


McAdams ordered 8 Rifle Brigade, comprised of the Norham Light Infantry and Craigfearn Fusiliers. The six battalions of Arcer infantry conducted a mixture of road marches and used trucks provided by the Istrenyan National Guard, linking up with the beleaguered 2nd Istrenyan Division HQ in Enunana by March 24th. Two weeks of sustained mortar exchanges, use of heavy machineguns in depth, and naval airstrikes helped to break the resolve of Tytosh's Battalions, who slowly began to withdraw, allowing 2nd Battalion from the Norham Light Infantry (2 NLI) to cross the river and cut off many communist forces from withdrawing. With Enunana liberated and allowing the 2nd Istrenyan Division to mop up, 8 Rifle Brigade conducted an advance along the coast for Lokokeja.
Following the conclusion of the [[First Fratricide]], the Grand Duchy was ordered dissolved into its constituent parts by the peace treaty at the conclusion of the conflict, though the Grand Duchy would continue to fight long after the conclusion of hostilities. The Bergendii were unable to enforce treaty provisions upon the state, leading to low-level hostilities continuing until the Bergendii secured an unlikely alliance with the Duke of Upper Verecundia, who invaded and annexed Lower Verecundia in 1867. The Grand Duchy was subsequently defeated by the Bergendii and Vorenia lost its Grand Ducal position, becoming a "Marcher Principality" - a Margraviate with enhanced dignity.
==== Line of Contact ====
The line of contact along the center of the country roughly created a distinct divide, aside from the Iraso Pocket. In the West, Tytosh's National Instrenyan People's Front (NIPF) Battalions were attempting to establish a new People's Republic of Istrenya. Continued pressure along the Line of Contact meant that from the East the National Guard and supporting Arcerion forces would encroach and liberate more towns and villages as they sought to end the control of the Western portion of the country by subversives.
[[File:Casevac 1.jpg|thumb|Members of 23 Field Ambulance Section, 7 Rifle Brigade, prep a soldier for helicopter CASEVAC to Karaba after fighting in the Southern Mountains of Istrenya, 1960. ]]
8 Rifle Brigade continued to drive along the coast towards Lokokeja, fighting running battles with the Liberation Battalions, reaching Lokokeja by mid-summer. Fierce battles on the cities outskirts focused mainly on the suburb of Teremba, a small fishing town with a large wharf that had served as one of the major trucking and ground lines of communication for the retreating NIPF forces as they withdrew to their Western strongholds. In the South, the mountains that flanked the Southern Istrenyan border saw 7 Rifle Brigade conducting company-level offensives with. The [[Royal Easthampton Borderers]] (REB), Arcerion Fusilier Regiment (AFR), and the Royal Moorden Regiment (RMR) all participated in actions in the mountains, with fierce battles in the alpine environment resulting in the first large-scale use of helicopters bu the Arcer Army for casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) operations. 7 Rifle Brigade's objective was Mogtopeni, a mountain town with the largest regional airport, which they were aiming to liberate to allow for the infiltration of 11 Parachute Brigade, who had staged in Chester-on-Moore awaiting a cleared drop zone.  
==== Battle of Teremba ====
Teremba was the key entryway to Lokokeja. Taking the town would allow for use of its wharf, rail junction between the coastal rail line and the mountain rail line, as well as access to Highway 1 - which ran the length of Istrenya to Karaba. The Norham Light Infantry encircled the town, and with fire support from the Craigfearn Fusiliers, managed to seize key objectives by June 17th, even with rebels in the city putting up stiff resistance. Within the town, parts of two Liberation Battalions, including the headquarters from the 1st Battalion, were destroyed due to combined mortar fire and the Combat Controller Section from the Arcer Air Force attached to 2nd Battalion, Norham Light Infantry coordinated with the Royal Arcerion Naval Air Service, coordinating air strikes and close air suppor to the infantry as the conducted the tough job of deliberate clearance in Teremba.
Despite a successful seizure of the town, and the now limited ability to Liberation forces to defend Lokokeja, there was a significant amount of damage to the civilian infrastructure, including the local electrical stations which had been destroyed by Arcer mortar fire. Then commander of the Norham Light Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Iain Gonnegal remarked on the performance of the Istrenyan National Guard, "..at times we spent more staff hours and effort try to deconflict the armed rabble that we had fighting alongside us, than fighting the communists in the town."
[[File:Airborne drop 11 brigade.jpg|thumb|Members of 11 Para Brigade are inserted into Drop Zone 'Mike' near Mogtepeni, Istrenya during their 1960 air assault as part of Operation Insolent. ]]
==== Battle at M'kelo Airport ====
7 Rifle Brigade after two months of patrolling and fighting with the fifth and sixth Liberation Battalions through the Southern Mountains of Istrenya had arrived at their objective, and began to engage Communist forces at M'kelo Airport, which was the largest civilian air freight airstrip in Istrenya. McAdams was determined to seize it for the Joint Task Force, as the ability to do so would allow them to stage fighters deep within Istrenya, as well as allow for a forward medical facility as 7 Rifle Brigade's deep drive into the Istrenyan foothills had meant evacuating their wounded had become more and more difficult.  


The opening engagement saw a significant action by the Royal Easthampton Borderers on the morning of July 22nd, although both 1st and 2nd Battalions were damaged and unable to fully seize their objectives due to a high volume of recoilless rifle and machinegun fire. 3rd Battalion of the Borderers, accompanied by two companies from the Royal Moorden Regiment and utilising a significant number of sorties from the Navy. Combat Controllers from No. 61 Squadron called in sixty-four sorties for close air support, which until then the largest single-day volume of strikes called for by ground forces in a single battle.
===Second Great War===
====Deric Republic====
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After sixteen hours of fighting, around midnight the 5th Liberation Battalion began to withdraw slowly, leaving behind the shattered remains of the 6th Liberation Battalion to screen their retreat. On the morning of July 23rd, 7 Rifle Brigade took the airport in full. A follow-on air assault took place within the next 36 hours, and during the daylight hours on July 24th, 11 Parachute Brigade inserted onto the airfield to assist with the counter-offensive.
The '''Deric Republic''' was a provisional {{wp|federal republic}} formed during the first phase of the [[Second Great War]] in order to unite the various factions fighting for independence from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] and establishment of a [[Derian identity|Derian]] state. Despite consistent infighting between the disparate factions that comprised the Republic, it successfully managed to unite much of the former [[Kingdom of Dericania]]'s industry and militias into a coherent war effort. The Deric Republic began to descend into infighting in 19XX-19XX, and the {{wp|classical liberalism|liberal}} faction of the Derian nationalists opened negotiations for a peaceful settlement with [[Urcea]] and the remainder of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. With the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] on the advance in the face of a rapidly deteriorating state, the Deric Republic agreed to dissolve itself as part of the [[Treaty of Corcra]], the centerpiece of the peace ending the [[Second Great War]] in [[Levantia]]. Following the signing of the treaty, the territories of the former [[Kingdom of Dericania]] and Deric Republic descended into the [[Third Fratricide]] between pro- and anti-treaty forces, with the pro-treaty forces forming the [[Derian National Congress]] after the Republic's dissolution.
=== Stabilisation and Withdrawal ===
Ma'kle Tytosh concluded that the war was lost, and fled from his compound near Iraso, to Sofrine, the Northwestern most town in Istrenya. By the fall, 8 Rifle Brigade had fought to the outskirts of Iraso, linking up with 11 Para, who themselves had fought down the length of Highway 3 (Iraso-Mogtepeni) to the South of Iraso. The two brigades conducted the final major offensive action of the war. Fighting for Iraso lasted most of September, and by September 30th elements of the Arcerion Parachute Regiment had reached the Arcer Consulate, relieving the members of the Arcerion Commando Regiment and the consular staff who had been encircled in Iraso for months.
[[File:Searching.png|thumb|A member of Arcerion's 11 Parachute Brigade searches a local civilian for weapons as an Istrenyan National Guardsman walks by in 1961 as part of stability operations. ]]
In Sofrine, members of the Intelligence Directorate of the Office of Public Safety and National Security had used human sources they had cultivated within the NIPF, and had been informed that Tytosh was staying at a Plumbing Union's local headquarters. This information was quickly disseminated to the Office's HQ in Kurst, who briefed Prime Minister MacCallough, and with proper authorization the OPSNS inserted a pair of Operations Directorate teams, 'Francoise' and 'Gregory,' with orders to capture Tytosh. After liaising with local Populist sympathizers and former police officers remaining as part of an underground resistance, the teams fought an open gun battle in the streets, eventually leading to Tytosh being killed. Istrenyan National Policemen paraded the corpse through the streets, eventually nailing it to a lamppost in the town square in central Sofrine. With their leader killed and Arcer soldiers and their National Guard counterparts closing on all fronts, the remaining NIPF forces collapsed, with 8 Rifle Brigade securing Sofrine in its entirety by the last week of November. The mountain stronghold of Koungheul was the final NIPF area to surrender, with the commanding officer of 7 Rifle Brigade and the commander of the 3rd Istrenyan Division jointly accepting the formal capitulation of the 5th Liberation Battalion on December 11th, 1960.
With the situation now stabilised, the remainder of the year was spent assisting the OPSNS and SASR as they looked to arrest the remaining political dissidents that had subverted the existing government's rule. President A'kale Treo, despite formal protests against continued economic sanctions from Arcerion against Istrenyan agriculture, permitted the continued actions of the Arcer Armed Forces as they quelled further unrest. Specific attention was paid to Malentine and Porlosi foreign fighters and ensuring they were handed over to Istrenyan authorities. The Istrenyan National Guard consolidated their few divisions and attempted to reconstitute, with both 11 Parachute Brigade and 7 Rifle Brigade being withdrawn to Arcerion, leaving only 8 Rifle as a stabilisation force. The remaining Arcer troops assisted the reconstruction of the National Police Forces, and utilised helicopters to move individual companies around Istrenya throughout 1961 to put down smaller riots and uprisings to prevent another surge of violence. As of fall 1961, the Arcer Armed Forces began a full withdrawal from Istrenya, leaving the country to the Presidential Office and Security Forces.
==== Arcer Embassy Closure ====
With the fallout of the scandal being sustained assaults against Arcer citizens and diplomatic infrastructure, the [[Arcerion Foreign Office|Foreign Office of Arcerion]] formally withdrew its embassy and permant staff from Istrenya in 1961, including the closure of the consulate in Iraso. Prime Minister MacCallough commented publicly in the [[Kinnaird Financial Times]] that Arcerion's engagement in the Southwestern Cronan Peninsula was no longer to be centered around Istrenya and ties with their government, but instead would shift to a larger whole-of-peninsula approach that would see an increase in Porlosi diplomatic overtures.
== OPSNS Involvement ==
[[File:Air Crona Logo-removebg-preview.png|thumb|Public logo of [[Air Crona]], a front corporation that was a privately-owned airline of the [[Office of Public Safety and National Security]]. ]]
While the Arcer government has rarely commented on the official nature of the Office of Public Safety and National Security or its missions, several news articles, books, and undisclosed interviews with former employees during the 1980s and 1990s highlighted the extensive role of the OPSNS in Istrenya. The OPSNS would use its secretive and privately-owned airline, [[Air Crona]], to insert members of the Special Arcer Service Regiment, as well as its own Intelligence and Operations Directorate operatives. Air Crona and the OPSNS also conducted secretive resupply missions to the Istrenyan resistance West of the Line of Contact, providing weapons, equipment, and training to combat and tie down NIPF forces. The OPSNS also was alleged to have undertaken a series of assassinations, car bombings, acts of arson, and other clandestine missions to degrade the NIPF's ability to fight.
OPSNS involvement culminated in the death of Ma'kle Tytosh, who was shot to death at his new headquarters in Sofrine, Istrenya.


It has been alleged in several newer sources of media that the two politicians that were attacked, John Francis and Nathan Phillips, were actually OPSNS Intelligence Officers working in Istrenya and they were attacked by the Istrenyan National Police Forces, who used the communist and socialist riots as a cover-up to hide their activities intimidating Arcer influence in Istrenya. The Istrenyan government and the Arcer Foreign Ministry have both openly decried and declared such allegations outlandish and false.
====Dissolution of the Kingdom====
== Aftermath and Legacy ==
 
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== Post-War period ==
Istrenya would continue to be a relatively poor economic and Indigenous nation in South Crona. Continued economic sanctions from Arcerion, relatively weak and unstable currency, as well as continued instability crippled its growth and development until the 1990s and Arcerion re-establishing a diplomatic presence with a consulate in Karaba. Arcerion's long term public opinion of the conflict was of a necessary police action to suppress communists that were a short ferry ride away from one of Arcerion's largest cities. Many regiments and squadrons in the Arcer Military still remember the conflict as the first major action after the Second Great War, with the Royal Moorden Regiment still celebrating July 23rd as the anniversary of the victory at M'kelo Airport. The Norham Light Infantry have named their main garrison in Arcerion the 'Teremba Barracks' after their engagement in Istrenya. In Istrenya, the conflict is more commonly remembered as a civil war, with Ma'kle Tytosh being one of the few individuals from that period still considered a national person of significance despite attempts by the Populist Government to destroy any national memory to prevent another uprising.
The [[Kingdom of Dericania]] was dissolved with the [[Emperor of the Levantines]] relinquishing authority over it in 1935, leading to a period of significant domestic tumult and infighting known as the [[Third Fratricide]]. Following the end of the [[Second Great War]], the former parts of the Kingdom of Dericania reformed into the [[Deric States]], a loose confederation of many former states of Dericania which had consolidated during the war.
=== Third Fratricide ===
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=== Establishment of the Deric States ===
=== Levantine incorporation ===
=== End of Derian national project ===
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The history of Dericania is primarily related to the history of Levantia as well as that of both Great Levantia and the Holy Levantine Empire, the latter of which originated out of and was based in Dericania. While being home to a diverse number of southern Levantine peoples and ethnic groups, much of the history of Dericania in recent centuries has dealt with questions of Derian identity, which became a primary driving factor in world history and was an underlying cause for both the Second Great War as well as the earlier establishment of Burgundie as an independent nation.

Prehistoric Eastern Levantia

3.3 million years ago to the advent of consistent Oral law, the earliest of which appeared c. 3200BC

Stone Age

Palaeolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

Chalcolithic


Bronze Age

Iron Age

Ancient history

Major players in Classical Dericania from 3200BC-598AD. Please note that "Gallawa" is incorrectly labeled on this map as a shortland for various Gaelic polities.

3200BC-598AD

Prior to the organization of the Holy Levantine Empire, including during the period of Great Levantine domination, "Dericania" as a cohesive geographical area in terms of polity and history did not exist. Historians have grouped together events largely by region - Northern, Southern, and Eastern Dericania - to convey the relevant actors, social movements, linked cultures, and individual historical figures that interacted with one another.

Pre-conquest Dericania

The historiographical term "pre-conquest Dericania" refers to the period prior to the arrival of the Adonerii and subsequent rise of Great Levantia.

Kingdom of the Ipari Impaxi

2800BC-164AD

Classical Antiquity and the Great Levantine period

Eastern Dericania

First Kingdom of the Burdeboch

527BC-285AD

The Bergenddium

150AD-598AD

In 158, Julian Marcilius Corvus, now styled Bergendus, was crowned the first high-king of the Bergenddium. While often seen as the first formal state that would become Burgundie, the Bergenddium was a cultural empire rather than a legal kingdom. As such, the title of high king was more of an honor given to men of distinction than a royal appointment with set roles and responsibilities. The only task undertaken by all of the high kings, and often the reason that later high kings where chosen, was to negotiate peace deals with larger Kiro-Levantine powers.

In 164, Julian Marcilius Corvus Bergendus commissioned a map of the Bergenddium which included all of the Ile Burgundie, most of the coast of modern Marialanus and some settlements along the coasts of Dericania and Fiannria.

Disparate emporium and Adonerii ports along the coast of Dericania began to centralize around their shared culture. This is seen as the divergence of the Bergendii from the general pool of Adonerii Latinics. They formed a few small private armies and navies to further the goals of the Bergendii merchants in the area. They refused to see a single monolithic central government, but often came to each other's aid and involved themselves in each other's politics, especially around trade agreements.

In the 130s an enterprising merchant, Julian Marcilius Corvus, formed an army in the naissant port of Nordarmus and marched inland to push the Impaxi tribes from the interior and ultimately on to Levantia. Over the next 20 years, his army was able to crush any opposition and then to push the Impaxi to the coast near Biscainhos. In 153 a joint Impaxi/Levzeish force crushed Corvus' forces. He escaped with only 75 men and his train. In 155 Corvus returned with a large navy and besieged Biscainhos, catching its navy in the harbor. After a three year siege and numerous heavy bombardments, the first sea-to-land naval bombardments in southern Levantine history, Corvus' forces forced the Impaxi/Levzeish population to surrender. As part of the surrender agreement the Impaxi and Levzeish were banished from Ipar and resettled on the coast of southern Levantia.

Southern Dericania

Confederation of Medestophanese

285AD-598AD Istroyan city-states

Tyranny of Phaxolos

134AD-285AD

Northern Dericania

Gallawa

Gallawa was a large confederation of Christianized Gaelic tribes and kingdoms that existed in the north of modern Dericania and south of modern Fiannria from the late 4th to 8th centuries AD. Gallawa was originally conceived as a loose alliance of Gaelic polities which had both broken into and settled Great Levantia from the north, those who had lived as foederati subjects in specific lands of Dericania, and a smaller number of mostly uncontacted tribes living in the hills and deep forested parts of northeaster Dericania. The alliance seems to have been intended as a means to consolidate Gaelic holdings in previously Great Levantine lands, but the alliance persisted beyond the latter's collapse. Gallawa supplanted Great Levantia as the major power in Dericania by around 450 AD, and its mandate switched from defensive to offensive, expanding its borders and incorporating other tribes under its sway by force of arms. Increasingly, the confederate nature of the alliance became centralized under the control of a family that would become known as the Conine dynasty, who were responsible for leading Gallawa through the collapse of the Levantines.

Gallawa experienced a major population boom at the end of the 7th century and began rapid and aggressive expansion, particularly against the Latin League and Hištanšahr, the latter with limited success. Following decades of skirmishing and raids, King Conchobar lead the armies of Gallawa west into the former heartlands of Great Levantia. Although initial successes by the Latin League under the leadership of Gaius Julius Cicurinus slowed Gallawa's advance, his replacement by the Latin League resulted in its complete destruction as Gallawa overcame most of the Latinic cities in the Valley. Following his peaceful seizure of Urceopolis, Conchobar reformed Gallawa into the Levantine Empire, which would be ruled by the Conine dynasty for the next century and a half.

Early Imperial period

Audonian invasion

Center of an Empire

Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines

In 917, upon the death of the Emperor Brian III, the Levantine Empire under the Conine dynasty was partitioned into three parts, roughly corresponding to modern day Urcea, Carna, and Dericania, with the latter portion known as the Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines. Passing from the Conine dynasty to the Leonine dynasty, King Leo, reformed the Holy Levantine Empire in 965 with his conquest of the Southern Kingdom of the Levantines, reunifying most of the realm and receiving subsequent recognition of the Pope. Historians debate when the name "Dericania" entered common use for the realm, but the "Eastern Kingdom" nomenclature was largely extinct by the late 11th century. The Kingdom of Dericania resulted from this shift, and would continue to exist until the end of the Empire in the 20th century.

High Medieval Dericania

While the Emperor of the Levantines used Dericania and its crown possession, Corcra, as a successful base of power from the 10th to the 14th century, the Kingdom mostly devolved into an area with the least central authority in the Empire by the 1400s. Several reasons are cited for the decline in crown power, but the fall primarily came the demise of the stem duchies dependent on Imperial support and the rise of hundreds of varied dynastic estates made the Kingdom administratively unwieldy and difficulty to govern. 917-1575

Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines

Main article: Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines

917-965

Bishopric of Bonavix

926-1847

  • part of the Holy Levantine Empire

Kingdom of Eagaria

936-1071

Archbishopric of Rabascall-Bergendia

Main article: List_of_Rulers_of_Burgundie § Archbishopric_of_Rabascall-Bergendia


937-1264

  • part of the Holy Levantine Empire

Upon the collapse of the Alvarus dynasty in 935 the clergy interceded as enforcers of public order. They drafted a militia and established courts, effectively taking control of the island. In 936, the bishop of Rabascall, a small coastal bishopric on mainland Levantia seized the opportunity to support the Archbishop of Bergendia with a militia drafted from his fief. He was able to quell the revolt in Vilauristre and the southeastern coast within a month but had orders to cease all activity as he was undermining the Archbishop's authority by being so successful. Rather than heed the order he marched to Vilauristre and seized the archdioceses buildings. Holding the Archbishop hostage, he demanded that the Pope intercede and name him the Archbishop of Bergendia as well as Rabascall. The letter never arrived at the Holy See, but at that point the Bishop of Rabascall had the Archbishop killed for inciting public unrest and heresy.

Holy Levantine Empire

Luciusian Dynasty

1036-1134

Crusades in Sarpedon

Main article: Crusades

1095–1291 The Luciusian reign was notable for the initiation of the Crusades in Sarpedon, in 1095. The Crusades consolidated the identity of the Empire and rested much more power in the Emperor. The various princelings who campaigned together began to see beyond their narrow fiefdoms and understand the vastness and diversity of the Empire but also of their commonality with each other. They all spoke Latin as well as their local tongue, they all worshiped in the same Church with the same rites. Some scholars have posited that the 12th century was the cultural birth of the Imperial identity.

Great Confessional War

Kingdom of Gassavelia

Main article: Kingdom of Gassavelia


1071–1568 War of the Three Princes, in 1071. Seoirge was crowned as the first King of Gassavelia by the Pope, incorporating the realm into the Empire. Removing the need to watch the southern border of the Empire, successive emperors looked northward and set about an age of expansionism across Levantia.

Vilauristre Conference

1204-1575 Hanseatic League like group of cities in eastern Kingdom of Dericania 1427, Universitas Magistrorum in Port Diteaux 1429- Order of the Obsidian Sparrow, Crusades

County of Bergendia

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1264-1549

House of Palacin-Port Diteaux

Template:House of Palacin-Port Diteaux

Main articles: List_of_Rulers_of_Burgundie § Palacin-Port Diteaux_Dynasty, and Palacin-Port Diteaux Dynasty

1264-1418 Palacin-Port Diteaux Dynasty

Bishopric of Mattiusvale

1264-1463

Duchy of Burgondia

1463-1575

Order of the Obsidian Sparrow

Main article: Order of the Obsidian Sparrow

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Founded in 1429, on the modern island province of Drusla, then known as Isulae Isti. They held the town of Hadua from 1429 until 1574. With the raising of the Joanusterrium to a Most Serene Duchy and election of Joanus de Martigueux to Grand Master of the Order, they retired from Hadua and moved their capital to Collinebourg.

Duchy of Marialanus

1438-1874

Great Confessional War

1555 - 1575

Plague of 1561
Plague of 1571
Truffle Races

1574 - 1593

Colonial ventures

Marialanii Ularien Trading Company (MUTC) established:

County Palatine of Estia

1439-1851

Great Confessional War

Main article: Great Confessional War

1555-1575

Late Imperial period

Renaissance Dericania

While several attempts at reform were made in the 1490s, lack of central authority was permanently established because of the Protestant Reformation. Despite its lack of tangible political authority, Dericania was by far considered the most prestigious of the constituent Kingdoms of the Holy Levantine Empire, and a majority of Emperors of the Levantines were elected from Dericania.

During the Great Confessional War, the lands of Dericania were ravaged by war. Significant outbreaks of disease and widespread famine were a result of the conflict, greatly weakening Dericania and making most of the Kingdom significantly poorer. Many nobles and lords lost their fiefs and significant amount of territory changed hands during the Dragonnades as Protestant families were displaced by those loyal to the victorious Holy League.

Age of Discovery

Trade Company Empires

Main article: Burgoignesc Colonial Empire

As part of this new period of self-rule, the Dukes created a series of trading companies that sought to raise the clout of the duchy and enrich themselves. They pushed the bounds of the maritime technology at the time and traveled around the world looking for fertile trade and investment opportunities. The largest and most storied companies were the Burgundian West Punth Trading Company and the Burgundian Grand Crona Trading Company. Unlike the other trading companies, these two set out on a path of colonization that, at their heights, covered all of Alshar and large swaths of south-central Crona.

Duchy of Martilles

1575-1869

Truffle Races

1578 - 1601

Colonial ventures

Martillien North Levantine Trading Company (MNLC) established:

County Palatine of Pumbria

1575-1863

The county was brutally unified with Burgundie in the First Fratricide despite a strong anti-mediatization stance.

County of Le Ax-Canbon

1575-1850

Duchy of Bourgondi

1575-1853

Truffle Races

1576 - 1602

Colonial ventures

Bourgondii Royal Trading Company (BRTC) established:

Early modern Dericania

During the late 18th and 19th century, the rise of Burgundie and the First Fratricide lead to chaos and disorder in Dericania that would continue until its demise in the 20th century.

Caroline Wars and Fratricides

Vorenian union

Following the defeat of Emperor Louis in the War of the Caroline Succession, the Grand Duchy of Verecundia was dissolved into its constituent parts, Lower and Upper Verecundia. By 1790, Lower Verecundia was inherited by the House Drusus-Orient, Dukes of Vorenia. As the princes of Dericania formed a conspiracy to oust House de Weluta from the throne of the Emperor of the Levantines, Vorenia-Lower Verecundia remained loyal during the uprising of Upper Verecundia. For their loyalty, Emperor Louis X of House de Weluta granted House Drusus-Orient the Grand Ducal dignity, fusing the two realms together. Drusus-Orient remained loyal to the de Welutas during the Second Caroline War, partly due to their enmity with the Bergendii states to the southeast supporting the cause of Emperor Mauricio I. Magnanimous in victory, the Emperor allowed the Grand Duchy of Lower Verecundia and Vorenia to remain undivided following the conclusion of the war.

Following the conclusion of the First Fratricide, the Grand Duchy was ordered dissolved into its constituent parts by the peace treaty at the conclusion of the conflict, though the Grand Duchy would continue to fight long after the conclusion of hostilities. The Bergendii were unable to enforce treaty provisions upon the state, leading to low-level hostilities continuing until the Bergendii secured an unlikely alliance with the Duke of Upper Verecundia, who invaded and annexed Lower Verecundia in 1867. The Grand Duchy was subsequently defeated by the Bergendii and Vorenia lost its Grand Ducal position, becoming a "Marcher Principality" - a Margraviate with enhanced dignity.

Second Great War

Deric Republic

Deric Republic

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CapitalCorcra (claimed)
Official languagesLatin
Demonym(s)Deric (noun)
Derian (adjective)
Derians (plural)
GovernmentProvisional federal government
• National Prefect
Cornelius Ahenobarbus
Free State Assembly
Independence
13 November 1928
• Dissolved
4 September 1935
CurrencyLira

The Deric Republic was a provisional federal republic formed during the first phase of the Second Great War in order to unite the various factions fighting for independence from the Holy Levantine Empire and establishment of a Derian state. Despite consistent infighting between the disparate factions that comprised the Republic, it successfully managed to unite much of the former Kingdom of Dericania's industry and militias into a coherent war effort. The Deric Republic began to descend into infighting in 19XX-19XX, and the liberal faction of the Derian nationalists opened negotiations for a peaceful settlement with Urcea and the remainder of the Holy Levantine Empire. With the Royal and Imperial Army on the advance in the face of a rapidly deteriorating state, the Deric Republic agreed to dissolve itself as part of the Treaty of Corcra, the centerpiece of the peace ending the Second Great War in Levantia. Following the signing of the treaty, the territories of the former Kingdom of Dericania and Deric Republic descended into the Third Fratricide between pro- and anti-treaty forces, with the pro-treaty forces forming the Derian National Congress after the Republic's dissolution.

Dissolution of the Kingdom

Post-War period

The Kingdom of Dericania was dissolved with the Emperor of the Levantines relinquishing authority over it in 1935, leading to a period of significant domestic tumult and infighting known as the Third Fratricide. Following the end of the Second Great War, the former parts of the Kingdom of Dericania reformed into the Deric States, a loose confederation of many former states of Dericania which had consolidated during the war.

Third Fratricide

Establishment of the Deric States

Levantine incorporation

End of Derian national project