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In [[1283]], King [[Serossaccir Odobricci|Șerossaccir Odobricci]] took the city of [[Venceia]] following a long campaign against the [[Venceian Republic]]. Rather than destroy the city, Șerossaccir Odobricci induced the [[Senate of Caphiria|Senate]] to recognize him as ''Augustus'' and proclaim his formal adoption by the last recognized [[Imperator]] of the Second Imperium. Șerossaccir assumed the responsibilities of Imperator, moving his court to Venceia and adopting Caphiric, rather than Slavic, laws and customs for his court. The newly formed [[Caphiria#The_Third_Imperium|Third Imperium]] would nonetheless have significant political and cultural Slavic influence. Due to the conquests, most of the lands of what would become Volonia was integrated into the Third Imperium, beginning eight centuries of Caphiric rule over the region. Due to being the home region of the Odobriccis, the lands around Truřov would receive significant benefits and Imperial favoritism for the next two centuries. | In [[1283]], King [[Serossaccir Odobricci|Șerossaccir Odobricci]] took the city of [[Venceia]] following a long campaign against the [[Venceian Republic]]. Rather than destroy the city, Șerossaccir Odobricci induced the [[Senate of Caphiria|Senate]] to recognize him as ''Augustus'' and proclaim his formal adoption by the last recognized [[Imperator]] of the Second Imperium. Șerossaccir assumed the responsibilities of Imperator, moving his court to Venceia and adopting Caphiric, rather than Slavic, laws and customs for his court. The newly formed [[Caphiria#The_Third_Imperium|Third Imperium]] would nonetheless have significant political and cultural Slavic influence. Due to the conquests, most of the lands of what would become Volonia was integrated into the Third Imperium, beginning eight centuries of Caphiric rule over the region. Due to being the home region of the Odobriccis, the lands around Truřov would receive significant benefits and Imperial favoritism for the next two centuries. | ||
===Third Imperium=== | ===Third and Fourth Imperium=== | ||
The early centuries of the Third Imperium era saw the reemergence of Caphiria as a major power in Sarpedon. Under Serossaccir, the new Imperium entered a period of stability and growth, with many of its major conquests retaking regions that were lost during the civil war and subsequent Dark Period, an era of Slavic prominence in the high echelons of Caphiric society, and an era of scientific discoveries as well as cultural and economic prosperity as the Renaissance was in full swing during this time. Many Caphiro-Slavic dynasties would reach their political and economic zenith during this time as the new elites of the Imperium. | The early centuries of the Third Imperium era saw the reemergence of Caphiria as a major power in Sarpedon. Under Serossaccir, the new Imperium entered a period of stability and growth, with many of its major conquests retaking regions that were lost during the civil war and subsequent Dark Period, an era of Slavic prominence in the high echelons of Caphiric society, and an era of scientific discoveries as well as cultural and economic prosperity as the Renaissance was in full swing during this time. Many Caphiro-Slavic dynasties would reach their political and economic zenith during this time as the new elites of the Imperium. | ||
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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" 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 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 | 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 been purged of any and all Slavic influences in favor of a return to Caphiria's Latinic roots during the Imperium's transformation into the [[Caphiria#The_Fourth_Imperium|Fourth Imperium]], itself a consequence of Caphiria's loss in the [[Veltorine War of Independence]] in the year 1782, and were strict adherents of the Caphiric Church, as well as 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. | 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. | ||