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By 1635, the southern provinces were considered pacified such that a permanent occupation by the Imperial Legion was no longer necessary. While most violence ended, the Era of Retribution continued as Imperial magistrates imposed heavy obligations on the people of the provinces and violence was still employed in order to bring about adherence to the [[Caphiric Church]]. Economic disruptions continued through the 1640s, as prominent local Catholic nobles and landowners were systematically expelled and their land re-appropriated to Legionary generals. The [[Senate (Caphiria)|Imperial Senate]] passed many acts between 1629 and 1680 relating to suppression in the southern provinces. By the 1680s, all participants of the [[Ash War]] were long dead and the area was considered fully integrated back into the Imperium, ending both special legislation as well as the burdensome presence of additional magistrates. | By 1635, the southern provinces were considered pacified such that a permanent occupation by the Imperial Legion was no longer necessary. While most violence ended, the Era of Retribution continued as Imperial magistrates imposed heavy obligations on the people of the provinces and violence was still employed in order to bring about adherence to the [[Caphiric Church]]. Economic disruptions continued through the 1640s, as prominent local Catholic nobles and landowners were systematically expelled and their land re-appropriated to Legionary generals. The [[Senate (Caphiria)|Imperial Senate]] passed many acts between 1629 and 1680 relating to suppression in the southern provinces. By the 1680s, all participants of the [[Ash War]] were long dead and the area was considered fully integrated back into the Imperium, ending both special legislation as well as the burdensome presence of additional magistrates. | ||
====Long Peace==== | ====Long Peace and Volonian nationalism==== | ||
The "Long Peace" was inaugurated in the 1680s as [[Caphiria]]'s focus shifted from adherence to the internal [[Great Schism of 1615]] to external military and economic dominance in [[Sarpedon]], and as such most retributive legislation against the southern provinces had expired or been repealed by 1700. While [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priests and liturgies continued to operate underground in the area, their existence was something of an open secret tolerated by authorities, though if caught Catholic adherents would be subject to significant penalties or even | The "Long Peace" was inaugurated in the 1680s as [[Caphiria]]'s focus shifted from adherence to the internal [[Great Schism of 1615]] to external military and economic dominance in [[Sarpedon]], and as such most retributive legislation against the southern provinces had expired or been repealed by 1700. While [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priests and liturgies continued to operate underground in the area, their existence was something of an open secret tolerated by authorities, though if caught Catholic adherents would be subject to significant penalties or even face execution. Following nearly a century of violence, however, the economic and agricultural output of the area began to rebound and soon exceeded 1600's economic output by the year 1715. | ||
The Long Peace continued through much of the | The Long Peace continued through much of the 1700s until notions of {{wp|Romantic nationalism}} began to develop among the people of the southern provinces, who began to view themselves as a distinct ethnic group separate from both the Caphiric elites, who by the end of the 18th Century had long been purged of any and all Slavic influences in favor of a return to Caphiria's Latinic roots and were strict adherents of the Caphiric Church, and the neighboring Slavic peoples, who were nowhere near as latinized as the people in the Truřov Province (who, unlike most Slavic peoples in Sarpedon, had embraced a Romance language complete with a Latin-based alphabet). This was the beginnings of a distinct "Volonian" identity, born from opposition to the elites of Caphiria and the Caphiric Church. | ||
The rise of this new Volonian identity was marked by a period of tensions between the Truřov Province and the imperial government which lasted from the end of the 18th Century until eventually boiling over during the [[Second Great War]]. During the latter decades leading up to the war of national liberation, nascent Volonian nationalist movements received material support from sympathetic [[Delepasians|Delepasian]] polities in the nearby region of [[Vallos]]. During this time, support mostly consisted of recruiting and training Volonian nationalist guerillas and supplying them. The most notable of these sympathetic polities was [[Kingdom of Bahia|Bahia]], of which the nation's military intelligence unit, the National Bureau (ON), held particular interest in supporting Volonian independence. | |||
===War of National Liberation=== | ===War of National Liberation=== | ||