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=== Colonial Era=== | === Colonial Era=== | ||
[[File:Generaal_Shi_Lang_met_een_gezelschap_hoogwaardigheidsbekleders_bij_een_waterput_aan_zee(cropped).jpg|thumb|Admiral Xi Haifong, discoverer of [[Peratra]] and foremost conqueror of its tribes in the name of the Qian dynasty.]] | |||
The colonization of Timbia almost started by accident, when a [[Daxia]]n vessel captained by [[South_Seas_Development_Company|Xi Haifong]] suffered a major scurvy outbreak south of [[Zhijun]] and decided to deviate off its course to find land. The landmass they found turned out to be [[Peratra]]and it was deemed interesting enough for another expedition. Captain Haifong sailed back and he who established the first company trading post in a natural bay in what is now [[Rakin]] in 1642, where the natives could go and trade freely with the [[Daxia]]ns. Two years later a new [[Daxia]]n community was founded at the cape of hope on the northwestern part of the island, named after the fact it brought hope to the ill sailors who discovered it. The [[Daxia]]ns called this city Xīwàng but is now known as the regional capital Faamoemoe. | The colonization of Timbia almost started by accident, when a [[Daxia]]n vessel captained by [[South_Seas_Development_Company|Xi Haifong]] suffered a major scurvy outbreak south of [[Zhijun]] and decided to deviate off its course to find land. The landmass they found turned out to be [[Peratra]]and it was deemed interesting enough for another expedition. Captain Haifong sailed back and he who established the first company trading post in a natural bay in what is now [[Rakin]] in 1642, where the natives could go and trade freely with the [[Daxia]]ns. Two years later a new [[Daxia]]n community was founded at the cape of hope on the northwestern part of the island, named after the fact it brought hope to the ill sailors who discovered it. The [[Daxia]]ns called this city Xīwàng but is now known as the regional capital Faamoemoe. | ||