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Due to their nomadic lifestyle and their disinterest in engaging the [[occidental]]s, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] largely left the Bedouins of the Bulkawan Peninsula alone and built their colonies around them. By the 1630s timber from Majanub was being brought to build a sprawling complex of fortified towns and salt mining operations. Businesses to support the efforts became very lucrative and wainwrights, shipwrights, and engineers flocked to the area. Beyond the Chott al-Rezid the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] build operations at the Chott al-Mouza and the Ben Ghilli Salt Flats. These operations brought millions into the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]]’s coffers and is one of the primary financial activities that allowed for unfettered expansion in [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]]. The salt mines brought tens of thousands of colonists from [[Burgundie]], the Levantine Protestant communities on [[Torlen]] and [[Medimeria]], as well as from other parts of [[Audonia]]. The port cities of Avelie and Sant Marten both surpassed 20,000 residents in the 1690s making them bigger than [[Vilauristre]] and [[Port Diteaux]]. The back-breaking work and the blistering heat made for a seedy type coming to seek work in the colony of Bulkawa. This led to rapid development of the vice sectors like prostitution and drinking halls. It also required the establishment of a vast drinking liquid network. This drove the development of the tea plantations in Vitale, [[Pukhgundi]], and other parts of [[Alshar]]. Becoming the most profitable colony of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] also made it the most important and the center for the formation of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]]. Seeking to exert more control on the political environment that fed into its colonies and to which it exported, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] formed a government in Avelie and formalized its army, navy, and diplomatic corps reorganizing itself as the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]]. This was met by outrage in many nations both in [[Audonia]] and the [[Occidental]] world, however fear of embargo brought most countries to recognize the sovereignty of the empire in [[1757]]. | Due to their nomadic lifestyle and their disinterest in engaging the [[occidental]]s, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] largely left the Bedouins of the Bulkawan Peninsula alone and built their colonies around them. By the 1630s timber from Majanub was being brought to build a sprawling complex of fortified towns and salt mining operations. Businesses to support the efforts became very lucrative and wainwrights, shipwrights, and engineers flocked to the area. Beyond the Chott al-Rezid the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] build operations at the Chott al-Mouza and the Ben Ghilli Salt Flats. These operations brought millions into the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]]’s coffers and is one of the primary financial activities that allowed for unfettered expansion in [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]]. The salt mines brought tens of thousands of colonists from [[Burgundie]], the Levantine Protestant communities on [[Torlen]] and [[Medimeria]], as well as from other parts of [[Audonia]]. The port cities of Avelie and Sant Marten both surpassed 20,000 residents in the 1690s making them bigger than [[Vilauristre]] and [[Port Diteaux]]. The back-breaking work and the blistering heat made for a seedy type coming to seek work in the colony of Bulkawa. This led to rapid development of the vice sectors like prostitution and drinking halls. It also required the establishment of a vast drinking liquid network. This drove the development of the tea plantations in Vitale, [[Pukhgundi]], and other parts of [[Alshar]]. Becoming the most profitable colony of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] also made it the most important and the center for the formation of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]]. Seeking to exert more control on the political environment that fed into its colonies and to which it exported, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Company]] formed a government in Avelie and formalized its army, navy, and diplomatic corps reorganizing itself as the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]]. This was met by outrage in many nations both in [[Audonia]] and the [[Occidental]] world, however fear of embargo brought most countries to recognize the sovereignty of the empire in [[1757]]. | ||
In the Presidency Act of 1771, the Presidency of Bulkhawan was announced, covering much of the colony of Bulkhawa but ceded some of the western interior to the nomads as they were pushed out and forced to renounce their nomadic traditions. This led to intense bad blood between the colonial state and the locals. Colonial | In the Presidency Act of 1771, the Presidency of Bulkhawan was announced, covering much of the colony of Bulkhawa but ceded some of the western interior to the nomads as they were pushed out and forced to renounce their nomadic traditions. This led to intense bad blood between the colonial state and the locals. Colonial [[Battagnuur]]i knights were brought into to escort the Bedouins from their villages but clashes erupted in a number of areas leading to the massacre of the tribal peoples. In the 840 recorded Bedouin encampments in the area with an estimated population of 969,000 people, only 694 encampments and 539,000 people were successfully relocated. The remainder were assumed killed or dispersed into the vast desert waste. The brutal effectiveness of this dispossession of tribal homelands become a model for colonial powers post-independence powers for centuries afterwards. These “Trails of Trauma” paved the way for a huge boom in colonial growth and land redistribution. Vast areas formally reserved for the Bedouin were settled and huge irrigation projects were started to reclaim parts of the desert that were adjacent to littoral areas. There was even an ambitious plan to dredge a channel to the salt-stripped Chott al-Mouza in [[1793]] that was never realized. | ||
Following the start of the [[Kandara|Great Slavers Bay Rebellion]] a similar call to arms led the Bedouins to unite under Ali Malik, becoming known as Malikites, a proto-communist who wanted to rid the Bulkawan Peninsula of colonial influence and establish a collective paradise. Malik gathered a force of 20,000 Bedouin cavalry and rode west to forcibly gather support for his attempts. The following year, [[1824]], he returned with an army of 250,000. It is unclear if these reports are just of combat troops or included his train but regardless it was a sight to behold. The colonial troops balked and retreated with each engagement and the few occidental soldiers and officers did their best to forestall the inevitable. Fearing the loss of their imperial capital and the salt mines, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]] hastily made treaties across [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]] and redirected its troops to Presidency of Bulkhawan. A force of 45,000 colonial and imperial troops was formed and force-marched through the desert to meet the Malikites head-on. Arriving at the western edge of the desert in March of [[1825]], the Imperial army set about building a camp and reinforcing its supply lines. The massive, cumbersome western-styled army immediately fell prey to the sprightly and spirited, lightning-fast raids of the Malikite army. Their supply lines disrupted and their supply of food and water dwindling, they made a forced march to the northern coast. 540 men died of starvation and thirst along the way, but the remainder were met by the navy and brought back to Sant Marten. As equatorial winter set in all they decided to wait. Garrisons were established at the salt mines and some recently created farming communities were forcibly abandoned and the men impressed into a militia. January of [[1826]] saw the first attempts by the Malikites to probe the defenses of the colonial forces. The Ben Ghilli Salt Flats came under attack January 12th. A small detachment of Malikite cavalry attacked the forward watch posts and were met with cannon fire from the fortified town. A squadron of Battganuuri knights and Umardi Sipahis were dispatched to try to find the main Malitike force. | Following the start of the [[Kandara|Great Slavers Bay Rebellion]] a similar call to arms led the Bedouins to unite under Ali Malik, becoming known as Malikites, a proto-communist who wanted to rid the Bulkawan Peninsula of colonial influence and establish a collective paradise. Malik gathered a force of 20,000 Bedouin cavalry and rode west to forcibly gather support for his attempts. The following year, [[1824]], he returned with an army of 250,000. It is unclear if these reports are just of combat troops or included his train but regardless it was a sight to behold. The colonial troops balked and retreated with each engagement and the few occidental soldiers and officers did their best to forestall the inevitable. Fearing the loss of their imperial capital and the salt mines, the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]] hastily made treaties across [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]] and redirected its troops to Presidency of Bulkhawan. A force of 45,000 colonial and imperial troops was formed and force-marched through the desert to meet the Malikites head-on. Arriving at the western edge of the desert in March of [[1825]], the Imperial army set about building a camp and reinforcing its supply lines. The massive, cumbersome western-styled army immediately fell prey to the sprightly and spirited, lightning-fast raids of the Malikite army. Their supply lines disrupted and their supply of food and water dwindling, they made a forced march to the northern coast. 540 men died of starvation and thirst along the way, but the remainder were met by the navy and brought back to Sant Marten. As equatorial winter set in all they decided to wait. Garrisons were established at the salt mines and some recently created farming communities were forcibly abandoned and the men impressed into a militia. January of [[1826]] saw the first attempts by the Malikites to probe the defenses of the colonial forces. The Ben Ghilli Salt Flats came under attack January 12th. A small detachment of Malikite cavalry attacked the forward watch posts and were met with cannon fire from the fortified town. A squadron of Battganuuri knights and Umardi Sipahis were dispatched to try to find the main Malitike force. | ||
==== Operation Kipling ==== | |||
Main article: [[Operation Kipling]] | |||
In [[1964]], communist insurgents from [[Umardwal]] spilled into the eastern provinces of Bulkh and established a People's Republic. Federal forces attempted to route the insurgents but the deep forests and lack of development in the region led to a long and tedious campaign of attrition. A formal People's Republic of Bulkh was accepted by a referendum of the people of the western provinces in [[1968]]. At this time the [[Burgundie]] extended Operation Kipling to include the [[Bulkh#Bulkh_People's_Republic|Bulkh People's Republic]]. | |||
=== | ====Bulkh People's Republic==== | ||
From [[1968]]-[[1982]] the Bulkh People's Republic (BPR) was a break away region of Bulkh that hosted its own {{wpl|agrarian socialist}} government and society. It rose in opposition to the increasingly urbanist, industrialist, and capitalist society that was forming in the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]]. Its center of power was in the market settlement of Tall Diwabjah. Despite its aims, the BPR was never successful in its attempts to fully realize its socialist ideals as it occupied mostly inarable, inhospitable desert and it was, from [[1974]] until its defeat in [[1982]] constantly at war with government forces. | |||
The BPR was most of a political movement than a defacto state and the population it oversaw were largely Bedouin nomads and transient herders who owed no particular allegiance to the BPR's government. It did some international recognition from other communist and socialist states but it was never seriously considered by most nations. In its own internal census of [[1980]] it reported to have a population of 325,493 people, but the government of Bulkh has never reported more than 25,390 people in the areas under BPR in the [[1965]] and [[1985]] censuses of the regions. | |||
==== | ==== Bulkhan War ==== | ||
Unsatisfied with the results of [[Operation Kipling]], the Republic of Bulkh started a series of operations of their own, which has become known by the neolog ''the Bulkhan War'', to bring the [[Bulkh People's Republic]] back into the republic. From [[1974]]-[[1982]] the Bulkhan War raged and by [[1979]] expanded into [[Umardwal]]. | |||
==== Globalization ==== | ==== Globalization ==== | ||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||