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==Etymology==
==Etymology==
Yanuban means place of the south in Arabic and is named such because during the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] it was determined that the {{wp|Tropic of Capricorn}} bisects the land. In Arabic the Tropic of Capricorn in the "Southern Orbit", as such Yanuban is transliterated as "the place crossed by the Southern Orbit".
Yanuban means place of the south in Arabic and is named such because during the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] it was determined that the {{wp|Tropic of Capricorn}} bisects the land. In Arabic the Tropic of Capricorn in the "Southern Orbit", as such Yanuban is transliterated as "the place crossed by the Southern Orbit".
== History ==
=== Golden Age ===
Main article: [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]
Denoted as starting with the Muhammadian conquest of [[Muqadas]] and [[Al-Aqdis]] in [[624]] and ending at the fall of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] in [[1517]], the [[Golden Age of Audonia]] had a sweeping effect on the area of modern Yanuban. When it was conquered by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] in the 800s the area was generally unorganized, pagan, and had very little industry. It became the province of al-Janub, meaning the south in {{wpl|Arabic}}, because of its location in relation to the rest of the empire. It was famed for its ancient trees which were used to make boats, most notably for the invasion of [[Alshar]] and [[Sarpedon]]. Its inhabitants were also skilled horsemen how performed bravely in the [[Alshar]]ite steppe against the Mongolic Khatiri and Kharani horsemen. The area was host to a holy site at the Musrumi Mosque, built on a well said to be connected to [[Muqadas]] and an academy. The locals adopted {{wpl|Islam}} as their religion, {{wpl|Arabic}} as their language, and became loyal citizens of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]].
==== Bergendii contact ====
Main article: [[Bergendii Corsairs]]
Near the end of the Second Wave of Bladerunners several ships arrived on the eastern shore of al-Janub in [[1351]]. These [[Bergendii]] seafarers were unlike anything most of the Janubi had seen before. They established three small kingdoms: [[Sante Micel]], [[Madone]], and [[Bethel]]. These Christian fiefdoms swore fealty to the ][[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] and are notable for doing so during the times of the [[Crusades]]. Despite their good relations the kingdoms were dissolved in [[1362]] as local support for the [[Bergendii]] waned in light of news of Christian atrocities being committed by crusaders in northern and western [[Audonia]]. Some Bladerunners remained as advisors and treated a small but thriving community in the religiously tolerant Caliphate, but most moved on to [[Alshar]] or returned to [[Levantia]].
=== Early modern era ===
Starting with the fall of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] in [[1517]] and lasting until the expulsion of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] in [[1836]], the early modern era in Yanuban was characterized by low-scale tribal warfare as various sheikhs jockeyed for power followed by massive levels of colonization. After the collapse, the Oduniyyad magistrate continued to rule as a local king until [[1553]]. Following his death the sheikhs and emirs of the area fell upon each other each claiming the thrown. Their form of tribal warfare was more ceremonial than fatal but still kept the peoples from uniting when faced with western colonial efforts.
==== Colonization ====
The [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] first arrived in the area in [[1635]] and established a series of timber factories along the coast. In [[1653]] the Colony of Majanub was formed and the Ghafiri Protectorate was established with the al-Ghafir family. By [[1657]] the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] had supplanted all of the other nation’s colonies in the area and helped the Ghafiris to conquer much of the southern part of the modern country. Through the {{wpl|Doctrine of Lapse}} the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] assumed direct control over the Ghafiri Protectorate in [[1763]] and as part of the Presidency Act of 1771 made the whole of its claims in the area into the Majanub Presidency.
===== Company rule =====
Main article: [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]]
Divided into 17 tribal states primarily under the Majanub Presidency, the modern area of Yanuban was a minor possession of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]]. This means that it was not subjected to the same level of cultural colonization and proselytizing as other parts of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]]. The small administrative class of [[Levantine]] Protestants where happy to focus their rule in the few moderately sized cities that they built for themselves. This laissez-faire approach maintained much of the traditional values and practices of the area with the colonial administrators only getting involved in tax collection disputes.
Many Yanubanis barely knew they were even under colonial rule as the tax collecting was subcontracted out to tribal leaders so as to diminish the need for a large costly colonial government. Due to its resource potential being mostly timber-based with some fishing, and rubber cultivation, Majanub was primarily focused on supplying the hotter less densely wooded colonies in the north. The few international exports it did have were routed through the [[Legatation of Ankivara]] before being either sold in [[Sarpedon]] or forwarded to [[Crona]] and [[Levantia]].
=== Late modern era ===
The late modern era in Yanuban officially started with the end of company rule in [[1836]] and lasted until the outbreak of the [[Second Great War]] in [[1934]]. It was a generally peaceful time in which the various tribes minded their own business and the as-Samadh family emerged as the strongest political entity eventually uniting the tribes under their monarchy. The as-Samadh family ruled from [[1884]] until [[1977]].
During the late modern period the area was not engaged in international politicking as its location was not relevant and its resources were not in demand. Aside from some tribal conflicts and a war with [[Battganuur]] over fishing rights, the nation had no significant issues during this time.
=== Contemporary era ===
Like the rest of the world the contemporary era in Yanuban spanned from the outbreak of the [[Second Great War]] in [[1934]] through the present day. It was a time of unprecedented unrest in the country and forced modernization. It spelled the end of the traditional lifestyles of the Yanuban farmer and nomadic herder, the creation of a deep divide in the nation that spans socioeconomic class, geographical distribution, and cultural outlook.
==== Samadhi Civil War ====
To many in [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]], the [[Second Great War]] demonstrated the fallibility of democratized capitalism of the [[Occidental world]]. While the political climate in [[Audonia]] was more democratic than [[Alshar]], the mainstay of most political systems was the monarchy and this was no different in the Samadh Sultanate. In the century since its independence from the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Empire]], now the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]], the Yanubani had turned to strong leaders and found solace in the paternalism of the state. In the 1930s and 40s a series of education reforms were undertaken and peasant farmers and nomadic herders were required to attend school at least through the 8th grade. This decidedly bourgeois policy was resented by the farmers, many of whom could only cultivate enough food to sustain themselves. It was doubly offensive to the nomads as it formed them into permanent camps for the school year, many of which became permanent as the government tried to end nomadism all together.
These peoples were happy to hear out communist and socialist thinkers who traveled with impunity from village to encampment fomenting ill will. In the [[1949]] election to the representative council 4 communists were voted in. The votes were suppressed and the sheikhs who had held the mostly ceremonial position were welcomed back into the council. When the results were discovered in [[1953]] resentment turned to violence. Farmers and herders in a number of provinces attacked their magistrates and the offices of the sheikhs. This led to a revolt in the navy, were sailors who long resented their appointed officers, captured two of the country’s 8 naval bases. The army was used to suppress these actions and ill-will towards the army and the monarchy became widespread. In this environment the Yanuban National Liberation Army-Navy (YNLAN) was formed of anti-monarchist groups.
In [[1955]], the Samadh Sultanate fractured into a civil war. Suspected communists, anarchists, syndicalists, and anti-monarchists were rounded up and killed. The government began a Strategic Hamlet Program forcing farmers and nomadic herders into areas they could control. The theory was that the government would be able to control the Yanuban National Liberation Army-Navy (YNLAN) by denying them access to manpower. The resulting difficulties with getting farmers to and from their disparate fields resulted in the hamlets adopting communal practices completely back firing on the programs objectives. By [[1958]] the hamlet program had completely failed and had become the backbone of the communist movement and YNLAN recruitment. In [[1961]] the Samadhi monarchy asked [[Burgundie]] for help. The [[Government_of_Burgundie#Civil_Defense_and_Security|Burgoignesc Department of War]] was happy to offload their equipment that had been made obsolete by the [[Second Great War]] and sold hundreds of millions of dollars of materiel, tanks, ships, and planes to the Samadhi government. Foreign aid only further divided the nation between the monarchy, the middle and upper classes, and the army versus the working people with a sizable contingent of the navy. The war was characterized by intense guerrilla warfare taking place entirely in the countryside leaving cities untouched. Because of the hilly and densely forested terrain in much of the country the Samadhi government used napalm and defoliants consistently. This deprived farmers of their livelihood and herders of their ranges leading to a critical food shortage and one of the worst man-made famines of the 20th century. The urban areas began importing their food from other nations and inflation skyrocketed. By [[1965]] the urban areas had stabilized with a steady supply of food and goods being brought in on [[O’Shea Container Shipping]] ships, but it changed the diets of the urban population drastically. In order to cut costs the Samadhi government bought grain which instead of rice, they replaced lamb with beef, and generally made publicly available food more densely caloric. Meanwhile, the cities also invested in fishing to supplement the foreign exports and a thriving industry developed. Urban industrialized fishing fleets were given dispensation to carry weapons and chase suspected communist (rural) fishermen from the country’s national waters. The monarchy’s loyal navy used the opportunity to “protect” the fishing fleets and shell insurgent positions. A method was developed by the fishermen where they would station themselves about three nautical miles further out from the naval flotillas and let the sounds of the bombardments drive the fish into their nets. The method was wildly successful but lead to extensive over-fishing of the areas in which it was practiced.
In [[1967]] the YNLAN was formally disbanded as their adherents were starving to death. Support collapsed and the farmers begged the government to end the war and stop the deforestation. The YNLAN sued for peace and agreed to disband and hand in their arms. Their leaders were summarily executed and the country tried to find a sense of normalcy. However, having lost 2.3 million of its countrymen and having created a deeply divided nation, normalcy in the Samadh Sultanate was not without tension.
==== Operation Kipling ====
Main article: [[Operation Kipling]]
Just as the Samadhi Civil War was ending, communist uprisings across [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]] erupted. By the mid 1960s a third of those countries were embroiled in anti-communist operations. Following their successful model in the Samadh Sultanate, [[Burgundie]] offered to sell its old military equipment to the embattled nations and facilitate any logistical support. In [[1966]], it was deemed not enough and [[Army of Burgundie]] troops started pouring into both continents. The Samadh Sultanate, still strapped for cash from its own civil war agreed to allow [[Burgundie]] to build bases, airfields, and ports to support their war effort. In the early 1970s, [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] wartime logistics constituted 15% of the Sultanate’s economy. The money was largely put back into the revitalization of the countryside with massive public works projects the also rendered unemployment almost null. This led to a resentment among urban populations who wanted to invest in their own improvements. In [[1977]], they abolished the monarchy and established a constitutional republic with strict voting laws that intentionally excluded the rural citizens. As part of the coup they redistributed the foreign monies coming in and set about urbanizing the nation on a grand scale. Known in the countryside as the second Strategic Hamlet Program, the urbanization was nominally more successful than its predecessor. It led to new urban centers being built, a network of transportation infrastructure, and a collectivization of farming in order to avoid the issues of the first hamlet program. It also included all of the social services that the urban populations deemed necessary and lead to an improvement in the lives of those who lived there, at least on paper.
As [[Operation Kipling]] intervention dragged on, the rural populations feared losing their identity to foreign influence and a thriving nativist cultural movement came into being. Nomadic Games were hosted to oppose the westernized Olympics, increasingly extreme interpretations of {{Wpl|Islam}} were adopted, and raising children became as much about maintaining tradition as it did about preparing them for adulthood.
==== Zege regime ====
Main article: [[Zege]]
Following the conclusion of [[Operation Kipling]] and the advent of mass [[containerization]] by the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] war effort, [[Audonia]] became a center of outsourcing. Far more developed than [[Alshar]] with much of its own infrastructure and a mature raw mineral extraction industry, Yanuban and the other [[Audonia]]n nations were spared the spate of recolonization that has become common in the late 20th and early 21st century in [[Crona]]. The seaports, airports, roads, and railroads that dot and cross [[Audonia]] in general, and Yanuban in particular, were rebuilt by [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] companies in the 1980s and 90s. As part of the various peace treaties [[O’Shea Heavy Industries]] and [[Lansing Lines]] were contracted by the [[government of Burgundie]] to update and rebuild a vast network of communication and transportation infrastructure that, in Yanuban, were spearheaded by local engineers and workers. The experience was vital to a resurgence in the local economy as they switched from agricultural to heavy manufacturing. By the early 2000s they had become a massive exporter in the microprocessor business as well as in cellphone manufacturing. The GDPPC of the nation climbed from $493 to $1,502 between [[1998]] and [[2026]] and bore witness to a small but vocal middle class.
====2032 Coup====
{{Further|2032 Yanuban Coup}}
Summary to follow.


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