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===Current constitution=== | ===Current constitution=== | ||
The need for a new "variety" of republic was very well known throughout the country during the early 18th century. Work on the new constitution was still underway in January of 1709, and after having the military step in to end the turmoil, the Supreme Court pressed the few legislators that remained to work faster. On 29 October 1709, the governments of Alexandria, Santiago, Veneza, and Verona called for the creation of a new capital, Alahuela, originally to sit between the four states with land ceded from all four. It was during this period, however, that the west Urlazian provinces, technically still part of Caphiria, began to experience the same neglect that Verona faced starting nearly 300 years before. Consequently, to keep the capital centralized and accessible by sea, the three states decided to place the capital between Alexandria and Verona along the Urlazian coast. This ensured access to San Ricardo, Milan, and Acara by way of the Urlazio Sea. In this time frame, Triessa and Andreas were looking to separate from Caphiria. They participated in the old republic as observers while the states already in existence figured out the issues of the first republic. They were, however, still part of Caphiria at this point. | |||
In late September of 1710, the second and current constitution of Cartadania was finalized with a final review by the Supreme Court completed in early October. When its review concluded, the plan was to send the information off to the states for adoption, but the beginning of the rainy season delayed this by a few weeks. Finally, on 30 October 1710, Alexandria became the first state to ratify the new constitution, marking the end of the First Cartadanian Republic and the beginning of the Second. The new constitution renamed the republic from the "''Republic of Cartadania''" to "''The Federative Republic of Cartadania''", although the exact reasoning behind this decision is unknown, as the First Republic was also a federal system. After Alexandria, Verona ratified the constitution on 2 November, followed by Santiago on 5 January 1711, Veneza on 9 July 1711, and Milan on 24 March 1713. Even though other states had been part of the union before it, São Andreas became the sixth state by ratifying the constitution on 1 April 1715, separating it from Caphiria officially. Adoption of the second constitution was slow, and for a while, the country was divided by the reluctance of the first adoptees to do business with those that were late to the party. | |||
On 7 September 1730, Porta Bianca, an old Cartadanian territory in the Taínean Sea that was first ascertained in the late 1690s, became the first territory of Cartadania to successfully lobby the federal government and be approved for statehood. For nearly forty years after this, the republic remained relatively unchanged. Then, in 1769, Acara became the 8th state to join the union. Having already been a part of Cartadania before, its adoption process was fairly quick after its government was able to agree on rejoining the union. Twenty-five years later, it was split in half to form the lower portion of Aleira on 6 September 1794. This was the first time a state had been partitioned in the country's history, as the only other two to have done it before, Santiago and Verona, split to their current borders while still part of Caphiria. The country was again quiet for a few years after this addition before setting its sites westward. | |||
== Annexation of eastern Vachena == | |||
In Spring 1798, Cartadania's western states of Santiago and Veneza were beginning to spread the idea of a better life for the people of Iordas and Carina the northwesternmost provinces of Vachena, which ultimately turned out to be an effort to expand their respective territories. Fueled by the lack of representation in their own capital of Carolina, and the lack of border control between Vachena and Cartadania, the people, first of Carina, began to intermix with the Venezanos and Santiagans, visiting Cartadania (albeit illegally) and vice-versa. In fact, Venezans actually started their own farms in Vachena, which went against Carolina and Alahuela's separation agreement, the historic Magna Discordia. Because the vast majority of then-western Cartadanians could speak Latin with dialects similar to those of eastern Vachena, it was becoming difficult to enforce the rule of the Magna Discordia. | |||
In late summer of the same year, uprisings along the coast of Carina caused the Vachenan military to enter the region which made many Santiagans uneasy. The land along the Trentine River which separated Cartadania from Vachena at the time was fortified by Vachenan military police, which caused Alahuela to send Marshalls to western Santiago. A minor disagreement between the two groups lead Cartadania's Supreme Court to call into question the validity of the Magna Discordia which lead to Senate Resolution 16, an assessment of the rules and protocols of the document by Cartadania's entire federal government. Heightening tensions along this border caused the Department of the Interior (now the [[Department of Homeland Security (Cartadania)|Department of Homeland Security]]) to send agents to the area to assess the impending fallout, and in March 1799, the first Vachena Crisis ensued. The buildup of tensions in the region caused a ripple effect across the country. News of the civil unrest in Carina spread to Iordas and Faraya (now [[Ferara]]), and the Vachenan Parliament issued an emergency order to military police to end the uprisings. Venza Sentinate and Caille Herini, then-governors of Carina and Iordas respectively, petitioned Alahuela for voluntary annexation. They cited the willingness of Cartadania's federal government to accept anyone and ascension of Porta Bianca, a territory over 750 miles from Alahuela at its closest point. Originally, Congress still refused, not wanting to escalate into war with Vachena, who was still in particular alliance with Caphiria, but the Supreme Court, in essence, ordered Congress to comply with the agreement in place with Carolina and Venceia. Because the Magna Discordia only specified separation of 100-years, the separation had expired in 1771 by virtue of the Imperator, thus Senate Resolution 17 was authorized and Cartadania's government de jure annexed not only Iordas and Carina, but also the Southern Territory, of which today is Montecarlo, Siena, and southern Ferara. | |||
This annexation did not so easily occur, though, because as Congress had feared, the ensuing turmoil caused by the implication rattled Vachena to its core. Cartadania's congress and Supreme Court argued that the basis for annexation was determined with the independence of both countries on the expiry of the Magna Discordia's separation agreement. The legal body of Cartadania further argued that the agreement set forth allowed the countries to reunify at the will of the respective people. Vachena's parliament stated that the claim was baseless as the Magna Discordia itself expired with the separation agreement and the sovereignty of Vachena was challenged with Cartadania's annexation (thus constituting a basis for war). Consequently, the battles raged on legally for some time between the two, with Vachena wanting to request the help of Caphiria's Tribunalis Ultima as a third party. Though it never escalated to war, the annexation lead to a complete downturn in Carto-Vachenan relations. Nonetheless, aside from temporary occupation, Cartadania did not have a permanent presence in much of the annexed area. However, because Cartadania had stronger relations with most of the world, especially the nations of southern Levantia, many maps and records reflected the change in borders. | |||
Despite the upheaval and tension that the timing caused, Congress also did not officially annex the entirety of Vachena at that time. Instead, on 1 September 1799, it united Carina and most of Iordas to create the present-day borders of a new state and gave the area the name Lumbhardi for the river that flows through it. Still in political disarray, Congress moved quickly and filed a motion to admit Lumbhardi as a state. On 1 December 1799, the then-possession (aka Territory of Second Class) modified its name to the current Lombardia and was admitted to the union as the seventh state on 15 December 1799. This decision was very poorly received by many Vachenans around the Carolina area who opposed the events ongoing in the area. Public opinion improved when Congress allowed permissive retention of Vachenan and Cartadanian citizenship, the first instance of dual-citizenship between the two countries. | |||
In an effort to, arguably, rub salt in the wound, Alahuela contributed large sums of money for the development of infrastructure to Lombardia, which was in contrast to the neighboring Vachenan provinces of Averius, Spero, and Spirito Santo (Aveiro and Espírito Santo, respectively) whom, like Lombardia's predecessors, were quite suburban and rural in nature. This lead to a short-lived public outcry that eventually settled during the events leading to the Great War. | |||
== Great War == | |||
Following the annexation of approximately fifty percent of Vachena's land area, Cartadania found it had entered a new stage of the world. Aligning itself with the ideals of southern Levantia through long-term allies, [[Burgundie]] and [[Urcea]], it quickly found itself in a less-than-ideal position if a conflict arose against it from Caphiria. The country's position made it particularly vulnerable during the Great War, especially considering its position between Caphiria and Vachena, who supported Caphiria. Thusly, Alahuela began setting up Forte Ataris, one of the largest Army bases in Cartadania. It positioned troops at the base on standby during the Second Vachena Crisis, at a point where Cartadania and Pelaxia were fearing invasion from Caphiria. As conflicts between Caphiria and Urcea ensued, Congress felt the need to eliminate any unnecessary threat, and in a period of about six weeks, fully surrounded Carolina and annexed the remaining portions of Vachena, ceasing the country's existence. In accordance with its historical agreements and views, however, Alahuela allowed Vachenans who wished to return to Caphiria to do so without issue. It was also at this time that Cartadania annexed the Caphirian province of Dacian, and the insular area of Dominica Sancta (See [[Santa Domenica]]), which it now shares with Pelaxia. | |||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||