Nor nuin Giliath

Nor nuin Giliath

Flag of Nor nuin Giliath
Motto: Faerie (freedom)
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Region	Nova Europa
Capital	Constantinople
Official Language(s)	English, Quenya
Leader	King Galfridus II, Prime Minister Richard Gharios
Population	3.629 billion (as of 06/09/2007)
Currency	Celeb gil
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The Kingdom of Nor nuin Giliath stretches from north eastern 'Europe' to the eastern end of Anatolia. Nor nuin Giliath thus has the control of the straits of Bosphorus, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The southern part of Nor nuin Giliath has Mediterranean climate, save for central Anatolia which experiences dry climate, while the northern has a more 'northern European' one.

History

Founding

Nor nuin Giliath came into existent in 4 BCE when King Aeolus of Rhodes, then a maritime power, commissioned an expedition of the northern Aegean and the Black Sea. Constantius was charged with heading the expeditionary force.

Constantius and his men founded the settlement of Constantinople, as a colony of Rhodes, at the end of their expedition. The original location of the settlement began where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus and stretched south to the northern coast of the Propontis.

The Constantinoplites soon found their city growing rapidly. Traders, settlers, peasants from every corner of the known world flogged to the small settlement, seeking livelihood. Anatolia, Thrace, Syria, Persia, Aegyptus, Italy. Constantinople expanded westward, and then eastward onto the Asian shores of Bosphorus. Constantinople became not only the centre of trade but also the centre for expansion and colonisation. From Constantinople, Rhodian expedition forces were launched. Within the next couple of centuries, large chunks of land on the Black Sea coast would fall into Rhodes' hand.

Independence

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Constantinople, before the independence.

By the early 1st century BCE Constantinoplites had forged their own unique hybrid culture which was made up of the settlers'. The Constantinoplite culture had created a large 'gap' between them and the Rhodians for centuries but because Constantinople's importance the kings chose to do nothing about it, till the reign of the young Theodore.

The King ordered a stop to all 'unlawful behaviour' which included speaking in Quenya, non-Rhodian dances, wearing non-Rhodian clothings, banning non-Rhodians from taking office in the Governor's office and playing non-Rhodian musics. Retaliation came within two weeks when Fariel, a half Persian, who was the vice-governor of Constantinople refused to give up his post and called for retaliation. The Great Revolution, as it is known today in Nor nuin Giliath, started on 2rd of June 13BCE and ended on the 5th. The Constantinoplites and the local militias with allegiance to the city fought the Rhodians street by street. Tens of thousands of civilians perished in the period of four days.

Early Expansion

King Constantine I was crowned the first king of Nor nuin Giliath after the Great Revolution. Constantine introduced conscription immediately after the independence to fight off the Rhodians who would soon counter attack. A few large scale counter attacks came, but the Rhodian fleets crumbled against the sea walls of Constantinople.

With the Bosphorus under the Giliathian control, the Rhodian colonies on the shores of the Euxine (Black Sea) were cut off from the 'mainland', most of them fell into Giliathian hands.

Nor nuin Giliath expanded rapidly into Thrace and Bithynia. In 15CE, Giliathian forces captured Gallipoli after a month long siege, defeating the last great Rhodian army. King Constantine was killed while leading the final assault.

The Giliathian enjoyed peace a few decades of peace before being attacked by wild men from the north, the then king Sextus mustered a large army of superb Thracian horsemen and drove the barbarians back into Dacia, adding large chunks of land into Nor nuin Giliath. Sextus then turned his attention to Anatolia. The King and his army crossed into Anatolia via Hellespont and conquered Mysia, Aeolis, Phrygia and Ionia. The ambitious Sextus moved into Cappadocia, attempting to subjugate the wild tribes, but his army, not well prepared were cut off in the mountainous territory suffered simultaneous raids by the tribes of central Anatolia. Sextus' army was virtually destroyed, few of his soldiers made it back to Giliathian Anatolia. Sextus himself was killed.

After Sextus' blunder in Cappadocia, no Giliathian king would ever attempt to conquer Cappadocia and Galatia for a century.

Conquest of Anatolia

Aurelius, a descendant of Sextus, was crowned King of Nor nuin Giliath at twenty one. Early sources says that Aurelius was an ambitious, hot tempered and prideful man. He swore publicly at his coronation ceremony that he would avenge Sextus. Not long after, he mustered an army of roughly ten thousand men and set out for Cappadocia. Determined not to repeat the same mistake of Sextus, Aurelius composed his army of lighter troops.

The Giliathian army was divided into smaller groups, consisting of light cavalry and infantry. These groups would carry out raids on Cappadocian settlements. Large numbers of women and children were among those killed. The Cappadocians were caught unprepared during the early stages of the war, however, a local chieftain managed to catch Aurelius unprepared. The King, with some three thousand men were garrisoned in the town of Ancyra when a Cappadocian army triple its size besieged the town. The Giliathians withstood numbers of assaults upon the town by the fierce warriors of central Anatolia bent on revenge. Scores of soldiers were killed on both sides but the Giliathians miraculously won the day.

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