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===Śervinaxt===

'''Śervinaxt''' is a port city in northern Niyaska, adjoining Valēka Harbour. Built largely on {{wp|polders}}, the city is home to the largest share of Valēka Port Authority facilities in Niyaska, and despite being relatively unknown outside of the Valēka metro area, is among the fifty busiest port cities in the world by annual tonnage.  

Deriving its name from a phonetically butchered Tapkek Aboriginal word meaning "ugly patch of swamp", Śervinaxt began as an estate owned by Andrus Konvoīon, a settler from the Coscivian province of Armaka who was among the first Coscivians to arrive in [[Ixnay]] after the conclusion of Kedhur Valēkas' expeditions. Although the site of Konvoīon's manor house is now within the boundaries of Cantrasar, which surrounds Śervinaxt on three sides, it was indentured labourers employed by Konvoīon from the low-lying islands of Coscivia's Heron Delta who began the process of draining much of the wetland and building the dikes and polders that created room for the modern city.

Śervinaxt is seen as a working-class city inhabited by many of the dockworkers, construction personnel, and other blue- and grey-collar workers who keep the Federacy's largest city running, and most Śervinaxt residents have embraced this identity. The largest ethnic groups in the city are Ærem Coscivians and Peninsular Coscivians, who each account for around one-quarter of the population. Helskan Coscivians, Cosco-Yetruenes, Damèts, Triathan Coscivians, Melotes, Kaśuvem, Rumeli Coscivians, and [[Faneria|Faneriais]] are also present in significant numbers. The overwhelming majority of Śervinaxt residents are "Greens", meaning fans of the Valēka Metropolitans fieldball team in [[Intracity Sporting Rivalry in Valēka|the Valēka area's bizarre, politically-charged intracity sporting rivalry]], in contrast to neighbouring Cantrasar, which is populated almost entirely by "Blues" (fans of the opposing Valēka Conquerors).