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==Caphirian Expansionism== | ==Caphirian Expansionism== | ||
Beginning in the 17th century, [[Urcea]] and the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] began to directly confront [[Caphiria]] and worked proactively to prevent its spread into [[Levantia]]. The Levantine powers began intervene in various conflicts and international incidents on [[Sarpedon]], which [[Venceia]] had long considered its prerogative. In the [[Veltorine War of Independence]] in the 1770s and 1780s, [[Urcea]] on behalf of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] intervened, aiding the eastern provinces of [[Caphiria]] in their quest to secede. Not only did [[Caphiria]] lose that war, infuriatingly losing half of its territory to the new nation of [[Veltorina]], but [[Urcea]] gained the new Kingdom of [[Talionia]], giving the Levantines a toehold on mainland [[Sarpedon]]. Later, the Levantines gained the [[Legatation of Ankivara]] and [[Port de Vent]]. Out of these developments, the conspiracy theory of [[Levantine Creep]] developed - and Caphirian policymakers were determined to make any moves necessary to disrupt and dislodge the Levantine powers, actions it claimed to take in self defense. | |||
The independence of [[Veltorina]] was considered a grave affront to the prestige and independence of [[Caphiria]], but with guarantees on its independence from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], Caphiria was unwilling to take on the Empire by itself. Throughout the 19th century, Caphiria made contact with agitators and rebels throughout the Empire and especially within [[Dericania]]. Famously, 1848 revolutionaries in [[Dericania]] following the [[Second Caroline War]] refused to accept Caphirian assistance, hoping to curry favor with the [[Emperor of the Levantines]], a strategy that failed. Caphirian concerns with [[Veltorina]] were escalated dramatically with the [[Tyrian Revolution]] in 1864, which turned its eastern neighbor into a socialist state. Despite this development, the Levantines refused to abandon Veltorina. Caphirian policymakers began to develop a long-term plan on how to proceed, and would spend the next several decades waiting for an opening. | |||
====First Great War==== | ====First Great War==== | ||
{{Main|First Great War}} | {{Main|First Great War}} | ||
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A massive opportunity presented itself in the 1890s with the rise of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]] in [[Urcea]] and beginning of the [[Red Interregnum]]. Caphiria offered its full support to FitzRex, providing materiel and volunteers to fight against the now-hated [[House de Weluta]]. The prospect of a FitzRex victory was promising not only due to the destabilizing nature of regime change but because his desire to destroy socialism and secede from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] lined up with Caphiria's own goals, and FitzRex indicated that if he was victorious, he may be willing to surrender [[Talionia]] and would not interfere in [[Veltorina]]. The [[Imperial Naval Fleet]] began to actively interdict the [[Navy of Burgundie]], which impeded the Legitimist cause significantly. | |||
''With the Urceans and Burgundines absorbed in the fighting on Levantia, Caphiria launched the [[First Great War]], calling on what allies it could to wage war against Veltorina, Pelaxia, and Aciria, aiming to overrun all its major continental adversaries while the Urceans were unable to meet their international obligations. (requires considerable work/additions)'' | |||
In Levantia, FitzRex began to embrace socialism in order to court lower class revolutionaries, allowing socialists to win a majority in the [[Concilium Daoni]] in 1900. Caphiria, bitterly disappointed, continued to support the regime with limited vigor, and their gradual withdrawal led to the [[Fall of Cana]]. The collapse of FitzRex's Crown Regency and the rise of the short-lived [[Urcean Republic]] led [[Venceia]] to reluctantly recognize the restoration of [[House de Weluta]], but it had learned lessons during the war. It rushed to end negotiations with the Alliance before Urcea and Burgundie were able to redirect their attentions from recovering from the war against FitzRex, leaving a number of issues unresolved with [[Aciria]], [[Pelaxia]], and [[Veltorina]]. The initial softening of the First Great War and the preparations laid by Caphiria in Levantia would go on to inform its strategy in the Second Great War. | |||
==Decline of the Holy Levantine Empire== | ==Decline of the Holy Levantine Empire== | ||
====Caroline Wars and Recess of the Julii==== | ====Caroline Wars and Recess of the Julii==== | ||