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===Iddryitine Despotate=== | ===Iddryitine Despotate=== | ||
The Iddryitine Despotate was a nominal dependency of the [[Caphiria#The_Second_Imperium|Caphirian Second Imperium]] that functioned for all intents and purposes as an independent state. Ruled from the island of Idyres, its fluctuating territory would extend through Sydona as far east as the Tetyres and Diakronum, northward into the hinterland of modern South Solis, and also westward to encompass the southeasternmost corner of what is now Greater Salesia, including its offshore islands. The Despotate's elite were Istroyan-speaking with Caphiric cultural pretensions, and its court conserved the symbolism, ritual, vocabulary, and pageantry of the Caphiric state system despite being isolated from the rest of the Istro-Caphiric cultural sphere of Sarpedon by Slavonic and Audonian conquest of the lands to its north and east. In the Sydona Islands under Iddrytine rule, the rural population was predominantly Pelian, while an Istro-Caphiricised, mainly coastal urban populace dominated commerce and politics. | |||
===Crusades=== | ===Crusades=== | ||
During the [[Crusades|Fourth Crusade]], Iddrytine Sydona, particularly the outer islands, was beset by several Crusader offencives led by the [[Elamite Order]]. The Elamites established a {{wp|crusader state}} on Mar-Kśaver. | During the [[Crusades|Fourth Crusade]], Iddrytine Sydona, particularly the outer islands, was beset by several Crusader offencives led by the [[Elamite Order]]. The Elamites established a {{wp|crusader state}} on Mar-Kśaver. | ||