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Aŋlija Siñiaritu Ŋura-Eilara was the second monarch of Baranxtu from the dynasty of Ŋurīa-Eilarīa. She brought a time of stability to the country and was the first to be styled "Mother Of The Nation", which has since become one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a Baranxtuan woman.

Biography

She was born in Bērēa, where her father was a professor of mathematics. She grew up in a peaceful environment, unaware of her father's role in the struŋle for independence of the colony of Baranxtu.

Aŋlija studied history at the university of Bērēa, where she intended to teach just like her father had.
She gave birth to her daughter Melumna in 1795, and became engaged to Melumna's father, Baŋri Siani, a commoner, shortly thereafter.
In 1796, she both graduated and married her fiancé. She put off becoming a professor, although it was offered to her, as she was pregnant again with her son Meisi.

In 1799, she gave birth to Ihan, but now decided to start working. At the University of Bērēa, she met her colleague Lamini Seanti, who taught astronomy, and she got engaged to him in 1801, marrying him in 1802.

It is not know who the father of her last two children, Denoi (b. 1804) and Sula (b. 1806) was.

When her father became king of the new-found Constitutional Monarchy of Baranxtu in 1814, he urged her to move to the former colony and she agreed to do so, moving there with her whole family in 1816. Later that year, she was made Crown Princess and First Heir to the throne.

In 1821, her father died in June and she was crowned queen about a month later. Her husband Baŋri was styled King of the White Carnation, while her husband Lamini received the title King of the Red Carnation.

Queen Aŋlija continued her father's work, namely rebuilding Baranxtu after the destructive civil war it had suffered to dispose themselves of their oppressive government.

Aŋlija lead her country into its first war, conquering what later became the provinces of Halaora and Ziaha in the Hantis-Baranxtu War from 1830-1832. She came to regret this, however, as her son Ihan died in this war. She was mainly concerned with the living conditions of the poor, and as soon as it was financially possible to do so, she introduced social welfare to the country in 1833.
One of the more disputable decisions of hers was to abolish the death penalty in favor of forced labor in 1836, using the criminals as laborers in the mines of Halaora. However, she revoked this new law herself in 1840, not reintroducing the capital punishment, but instead a life-long sentence in prison.

As she lifed comparatively long for her time, she survived both her husbands (Lamini died in 1824 of tuberculosis, and Baŋri died in 1839, possibly after a heart attack) as well as three of her children - Ihan was killed in battle in 1832, Meisi died after a stroke in 1848 and Denoi died in 1851, the cause of his death remaining unknown up until today (rumor says he died of syphilis).
Having suffered many illnesses during her long life, she died in 1852 of pneumonia. According to her will, her body underwent an autopsy and the results were shown to the public.