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The '''State of Gassavelia''' is one of two [[Government of Urcea#State|states]] of the Apostolic Kingdom of [[Urcea]]. It is the third most populous [[List_of_subdivisions_and_territories_of_Urcea#Metropolitan_Urcea|subidivision of Urcea]] and the most populous non-crownland unit. It sits in the southeastern corner of Urcea and is bounded by the [[Hortus Mountains]] to the northwest, [[Burgundie]] to the east, and the [[Sea of Istroya]] to the south. | The '''State of Gassavelia''' is one of two [[Government of Urcea#State|states]] of the Apostolic Kingdom of [[Urcea]]. It is the third most populous [[List_of_subdivisions_and_territories_of_Urcea#Metropolitan_Urcea|subidivision of Urcea]] and the most populous non-crownland unit. It sits in the southeastern corner of Urcea and is bounded by the [[Hortus Mountains]] to the northwest, [[Burgundie]] to the east, and the [[Sea of Istroya]] to the south. | ||
Gassavelia traces its history to the arrival of [[Battganuur#Ashrafinid_Empire|Ashrafinid dynasty]] refugees from modern [[Battganuur]] fleeing the expansion of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] in the 7th century. The area of modern Gassavelia, where these refugees arrived, was relatively lightly populated with [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] tribes as well as [[Great Levantia|post-Levantine]] [[Latinic people|Latin]] cities and some outposts of [[Ancient Istroyan civilization]]. The [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Christians]] who arrived subdued these peoples and established the Principality of [[Hištanšahr]], though most of the new arrivals and their descendants continued to intermarry with little genetic or religious effect on the people they ruled. In the 11th century, Hištanšahr was incorporated into the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] as the [[Kingdom of Gassavelia]], inaugurating a period of cultrual interchange and the rise of the [[Gassavelian people]]. Gassavelia as an independent polity experienced significant prosperity during the medieval period, but was subsequently destroyed during the [[Great Confessional War]] as it had become a {{wp|Protestant}} state in the 16th century. The eastern part of the Kingdom became [[Faramount]] whereas the west was granted to [[House de Weluta]] and ruled as a series of separate duchies and counties. In the [[Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892]], Gassavelia was reunited as a single state and afforded a degree of autonomy reflecting their historic status as the homeland of a unique people, a status which it still retains today. | Gassavelia traces its history to the arrival of [[Battganuur#Ashrafinid_Empire|Ashrafinid dynasty]] refugees from modern [[Battganuur]] fleeing the expansion of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] in the 7th century. The area of modern Gassavelia, where these refugees arrived, was relatively lightly populated with [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] tribes as well as [[Great Levantia|post-Levantine]] [[Latinic people|Latin]] cities and some outposts of [[Ancient Istroyan civilization]]. The [[Audonian Christianity|Audonian Christians]] who arrived subdued these peoples and established the Principality of [[Hištanšahr]], though most of the new arrivals and their descendants continued to intermarry with little genetic or religious effect on the people they ruled. In the 11th century, Hištanšahr was incorporated into the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] as the [[Kingdom of Gassavelia]], inaugurating a period of cultrual interchange and the rise of the [[Gassavelian people]]. Gassavelia as an independent polity experienced significant prosperity during the medieval period, but was subsequently destroyed during the [[Great Confessional War]] as it had become a {{wp|Protestant}} state in the 16th century. The eastern part of the Kingdom became [[Faramount]] whereas the west was granted to [[House de Weluta]] and ruled as a series of separate duchies and counties. In the [[Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892]], most of Gassavelia was reunited as a single state and afforded a degree of autonomy reflecting their historic status as the homeland of a unique people, a status which it still retains today. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
===Princely and royal period=== | |||
{{Main|Hištanšahr|Kingdom of Gassavelia}} | {{Main|Hištanšahr|Kingdom of Gassavelia}} | ||
===Wilderness years=== | |||
The so-called "wilderness years" of Gassavelia represent its period as a disunited series of polities which, although functionally part of [[Urcea]], were largely separate and ruled individually by the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]]. Due to the destruction of the Kingdom faced in the later years of the [[Great Confessional War]] and subsequent economic degradation of the [[Dragonnades]], the Gassavelian counties were severely economically depressed. Unlike other parts of [[Levantia]] though, very few Protestants would leave the country for [[Pharisedoms]] as none existed for their people, instead with most accepting the [[Catholic Church|Catholic faith]] but out-migration going to other places in [[Urcea]] due to the lack of food and employment. During the wilderness years, the territories were largely governed under the mistaken belief that they could be transitioned to a largely agricultural economy common throughout the rest of [[Levantia]], leading to the destruction of many settlements where the rare viable, flat land needed existed. Efforts to grow rice in the area were unsuccessful during the 17th and 18th centuries. | |||
===Reorganization=== | |||
The wilderness years ended with the [[Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892]], which reunited the duchies and counties with significant historical populations of [[Gassavelian people]] in them - with the exception of the new province of [[New Audonia]] - as the State of Gassavelia. | |||
== Geography == | == Geography == | ||