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'''Yonderre''', officially styled as the '''Most Serene Grand Duchy Yonderre''' (Burgoignesc: ''Sérénissime Grand-Duché Yonderre'', Gothic: ''Heilige Großherzogtum Yonderre''), is a nation in [[Levantia]]. Its capital and most populous city is [[Collinebourg]]. Yonderre consists of nine Counties that are divided into 72 Baronies, each of which further subdivides into munincipalities. The [[Yonderian Kestrel Isles|Kestrel Isles]] of the [[Vandarch]] Sea form a seperate Grand Barony directly under the [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Yonderre neighbours [[Faneria]] and [[Hendalarsk]] across the [[Vandarch]] to the north via the [[Kestrel Isles]], [[Hollona and Diorisia]] to the east, [[Anglei]] to the southeast, [[Calinthia]] to the southwest and [[Eldmora]] to the west. Yonderre is a semi-landlocked country on the [[Vandarch]] south coast, having access to the [[Kilikas Sea]] via the [[Grand Vandarch Canal]] which is administered by the [[Marine Yonderre]]. | '''Yonderre''', officially styled as the '''Most Serene Grand Duchy Yonderre''' (Burgoignesc: ''Sérénissime Grand-Duché Yonderre'', Gothic: ''Heilige Großherzogtum Yonderre''), is a nation in [[Levantia]]. Its capital and most populous city is [[Collinebourg]]. Yonderre consists of nine Counties that are divided into 72 Baronies, each of which further subdivides into munincipalities. The [[Yonderian Kestrel Isles|Kestrel Isles]] of the [[Vandarch]] Sea form a seperate Grand Barony directly under the [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Yonderre neighbours [[Faneria]] and [[Hendalarsk]] across the [[Vandarch]] to the north via the [[Kestrel Isles]], [[Hollona and Diorisia]] to the east, [[Anglei]] to the southeast, [[Calinthia]] to the southwest and [[Eldmora]] to the west. Yonderre is a semi-landlocked country on the [[Vandarch]] south coast, having access to the [[Kilikas Sea]] via the [[Grand Vandarch Canal]] which is administered by the [[Marine Yonderre]]. | ||
Yonderre has been inhabited since at least 10,000 BC by [[Proto-Goths|proto-Gothic]] and [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]]. The Bronze and Iron Ages were characterised by extensive contacts with other cultures in [[Catholic Levantia]] and [[Ultmar]]. Known as [[East Gothica]] to [[Great Levantia]], Yonderre became a crossroads of trade between [[Catholic Levantia]] and [[Ultmar]] around the late Bronze Age. The [[Great Gothic Migration]] which happened around the fall of the [[Great Levantia|Levantine Potentate]] in the late 6th century AD drove the [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]] out of [[East Gothica]] in a matter of decades, afterwhich several attempts to form a centralized Gothic nation failed. The resultant wealth of independent or semi-independent Gothic nations coexisted mostly peacefully with its foreign neighbours albeit in a near constant state of internal turmoil until the latter half of the 15th century saw [[Conquest of | Yonderre has been inhabited since at least 10,000 BC by [[Proto-Goths|proto-Gothic]] and [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]]. The Bronze and Iron Ages were characterised by extensive contacts with other cultures in [[Catholic Levantia]] and [[Ultmar]]. Known as [[East Gothica]] to [[Great Levantia]], Yonderre became a crossroads of trade between [[Catholic Levantia]] and [[Ultmar]] around the late Bronze Age. The [[Great Gothic Migration]] which happened around the fall of the [[Great Levantia|Levantine Potentate]] in the late 6th century AD drove the [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]] out of [[East Gothica]] in a matter of decades, afterwhich several attempts to form a centralized Gothic nation failed. The resultant wealth of independent or semi-independent Gothic nations coexisted mostly peacefully with its foreign neighbours albeit in a near constant state of internal turmoil until the latter half of the 15th century saw [[Conquest of Joanusterra|East Gothica conquered by crusaders]] from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], establishing Yonderre as an autonomous marcher realm under [[Joanus de Martigueux]]. Yonderre's legitimacy was solidified by the ''[[Treaty for the guarantee of Joanus' Land]]'' signed with the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] in 1494. | ||
Despite a largely succesful transition from the [[East Gothic faith]] to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]], settlers from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] raised ethnic and cultural tensions throughout the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The chiefly [[Bergendii]] settlers established new villages or became wealthy burghers in the new cities settled by the crusaders, while the indigenous Gothic population were entrenched in serfdom under their new Levantine Catholic nobility. Following a number of smaller uprisings, this ultimately concluded in the [[First Potato War]] (1556-1557) and the [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of the mid-1640s, widespread uprisings throughout Yonderre both of which ultimately failed. Yonderre was the main combatant of the [[Likedealers]] during the [[Golden Age of Vandarch Piracy]] in the late 18th century, policing the south [[Vandarch]]. Yonderre had its final civil war, the [[Second Potato War]], between 1787-1788, which resulted in relaxed taxation and granted more rights to the peasantry. Yonderre prospered throughout the 19th century in what is known as the [[Yonderian Golden Age]], a time of exceptional creative production in the fields of culture and science. Yonderre persued a strict policy of neutrality throughout the [[Great Wars]], although more than 1.5 million Yonderians [[Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the Great War|served in the Burgoignesc Foreign Legion as volunteers]]. Yonderre joined the [[Levantia and Odoneru Treaty Association]] in the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]] and the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] has partaken in numerous peacekeeping operations around the world since then, notably [[Operation Khyzer Rhykh]] and [[the Deluge]]. | Despite a largely succesful transition from the [[East Gothic faith]] to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]], settlers from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] raised ethnic and cultural tensions throughout the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The chiefly [[Bergendii]] settlers established new villages or became wealthy burghers in the new cities settled by the crusaders, while the indigenous Gothic population were entrenched in serfdom under their new Levantine Catholic nobility. Following a number of smaller uprisings, this ultimately concluded in the [[First Potato War]] (1556-1557) and the [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of the mid-1640s, widespread uprisings throughout Yonderre both of which ultimately failed. Yonderre was the main combatant of the [[Likedealers]] during the [[Golden Age of Vandarch Piracy]] in the late 18th century, policing the south [[Vandarch]]. Yonderre had its final civil war, the [[Second Potato War]], between 1787-1788, which resulted in relaxed taxation and granted more rights to the peasantry. Yonderre prospered throughout the 19th century in what is known as the [[Yonderian Golden Age]], a time of exceptional creative production in the fields of culture and science. Yonderre persued a strict policy of neutrality throughout the [[Great Wars]], although more than 1.5 million Yonderians [[Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the Great War|served in the Burgoignesc Foreign Legion as volunteers]]. Yonderre joined the [[Levantia and Odoneru Treaty Association]] in the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]] and the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] has partaken in numerous peacekeeping operations around the world since then, notably [[Operation Khyzer Rhykh]] and [[the Deluge]]. | ||