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|conventional_long_name = Most Serene Federation of Hendalarsk | |conventional_long_name = Most Serene Federation of Hendalarsk | ||
|native_name = ''Durchlautigste Staatverband Hendalarskaras'' | |native_name = <small>''Durchlautigste Staatverband Hendalarskaras'' ([[Hendalarskisch]])</small><br><small>''Legfenségesebbsföderáció Hóndalacs'' ([[Khunyer language|Khunyer]])</small> | ||
|common_name = Hendalarsk | |common_name = Hendalarsk | ||
|status = <!--Status of country, especially useful for micronations--> | |status = <!--Status of country, especially useful for micronations--> | ||
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Historically centred on the [[Zalgistal]] around modern-day [[Frehmenwerth]], Hendalarsk took its current shape during its Golden Age (c.1450-1650), with its modern borders largely those "natural bounds" reached during the Great Campaigns of Archking [[Maximilian II of Hendalarsk|Maximilian II]] in the later 16th century. The 21st century has nevertheless seen its economic and cultural centre of gravity shift towards the [[Vandarch]] littoral - and particularly to the northern metropolis of [[Zalgisbeck]], which is the nation's largest city. | Historically centred on the [[Zalgistal]] around modern-day [[Frehmenwerth]], Hendalarsk took its current shape during its Golden Age (c.1450-1650), with its modern borders largely those "natural bounds" reached during the Great Campaigns of Archking [[Maximilian II of Hendalarsk|Maximilian II]] in the later 16th century. The 21st century has nevertheless seen its economic and cultural centre of gravity shift towards the [[Vandarch]] littoral - and particularly to the northern metropolis of [[Zalgisbeck]], which is the nation's largest city. | ||
The Most Serene Federation is a geographically and culturally diverse nation, noted in modern times for its extraordinary and relatively unspoilt natural beauty. Mountain ranges, such as those which mark the nation's southwestern and central frontiers, give way to extensive tracts of arable lowland and, in the west, substantial areas of virgin forest, while large rivers such as the [[Zalgis]] have played an often crucial role in shaping Hendalarskara history. | The Most Serene Federation is a geographically and culturally diverse nation, noted in modern times for its extraordinary and relatively unspoilt natural beauty. Mountain ranges, such as those which mark the nation's southwestern and central frontiers, give way to extensive tracts of arable lowland and, in the west, substantial areas of virgin forest, while large rivers such as the [[Zalgis]] have played an often crucial role in shaping Hendalarskara history. Long dominated by its Hendalarskara ethnic majority, recent decades have seen a pronounced increase in the influence of Khunyer and Pentapolitan culture, as well as the gradual penetration of [[Julian_Ænglish|Junglish]] through modern communications and mass media. | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
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The name was only adopted for the Hendalarskara state after it had consolidated its hold over the watershed in the 11th century, but has been retained even after the state has come to extend far beyond those bounds, sparking repeated debates over its appropriateness in the modern era. There have nevertheless been few concerted efforts to change the state's name, and no alternative suggestion has achieved anything approaching consensus among those advocating change. | The name was only adopted for the Hendalarskara state after it had consolidated its hold over the watershed in the 11th century, but has been retained even after the state has come to extend far beyond those bounds, sparking repeated debates over its appropriateness in the modern era. There have nevertheless been few concerted efforts to change the state's name, and no alternative suggestion has achieved anything approaching consensus among those advocating change. | ||
In [[Khunyer language|Khunyer]], the nation is known as ''Hóndalacs'', a borrowing from the Hendalarskisch which became official through comprehensive language reforms in the aftermath of the Hendalarskara Civil War. The nation's prior official Khunyer name was ''Gotet Főkirályság'' (literally "the Goth[ic] Archkingdom"). This factual description of the Archkingdom's Hendalarskara ethnic hegemony nevertheless caused some unease in both Hendalarsk proper, where it could be read as the Khunyer distancing themselves from a state in which they were of secondary importance, and in Khunyeria itself, where more militant nationalists denounced the name as appeasement of the archroyal authorities. They often came to refer to Hendalarsk as ''Ellenség'' ("the Enemy"), a term which saw widespread and fateful usage in the turbulent years preceding the Civil War. | |||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||