Slavicland
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| Motto: The Only Country Started at a Hockey Fight | |
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| Region | The YoungWorld |
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| Capital | Vansity |
| Official Language(s) | Slavician & Makaarian |
| Leader | Tomas Holdstroe |
| Population | 2.429 Billion |
| Currency | Saphel |
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Slavician History
Slavicland itself is only a 'recently' established nation, founded in 1936. However the states from which it was founded have existed since medieval times.
Medieval Times
The oldest founding state of Slavicland is that of Kargan, based in the remote northeastern corner of Slavicland, which now holds a border with the Serdica Combine. Kargan the state was founded by Wilhelm Kargan the II in 341 AD, and the founding of Slavicland began under his rule. His goal was to unite the various Slavician speaking lords, however, this was not embraced by the other lords and various groups of power in what is modern Slavicland. Kargan initiated a series of wars in an attempt to achieve his dream of a powerful nation under his banner, and his repeated attacks upon his neighbours led to the creation of multiple states to repel his advances, and in turn, each other's. The states of Vansity, Ronehark, Berthamane, Provosinad, and Serdicial were founded in various times between 371 and 391 AD, and quickly established themselves as powers in their own right, and the resulting tensions between the states would continue for several centuries.
War of Serdicial
Serdicial was easily the largest state in the territory in the late ninth century. With major gains in Kargan, Provosinad and Ronehark, Serdicial was threatening to establish hegemony in the Northeast. The army of Serdicial was easily large enough to overcome the combined forces of the remaining states. The states of Vansity, Ronehark, and Provosinad made an alliance and went to war in 899 AD, triggering the War of Serdicial.
The War of Serdicial would ravage Slavicland for almost five decades, and despite an immense advantage in morale, numbers, and experience, the armies of Serdicial failed to make any serious gains into the territory of the allied states. It ended in the Battle of Kargan Valley, where the armies of King Klaren Vansity I won a decisive battle against the armies of Lord Ymitri Hoden. Lord Hoden was slain in the ferocious battle and King Klaren secured the vital route into Serdicial. The King of Serdicial, Ean Kaland, signed a peace treaty with the allied states, vowing for at least ten years peace before war returned to Slavicland again.
This served as the end of Slavicland's Medieval Times and led to the rise of the Serdica Union, the nation which would eventually spawn Slavicland.
The Serdica Union
The states which had allied against the threat of Serdicial remained allied even after the war was officially over and peace had returned to Slavicland. They did so mainly because, through assassinations and battle casualties, only the royal families of Vansity and Serdicial were intact. The states of Kargan, Provosinad, Ronehark, were all kingless and on the verge of devolving into civil war. Only the united armies of Vansity and Serdicial kept the peace during those tenuous years.
As the peace treaty began to reach the deadline stated by it's writers, the situation became grave. Both the families of Vansity and Serdicial made attempts to have their relatives rise to power in the kingless states, but failed. It was by an unusual chance that King Vansity's third son, Mikhail, and King Kaland's first daughter, Alessia, met. Their first encounter was in the town of Provostin, where the royal family of Provosinad had once resided in the citadel towering over it. As some would say, the two were almost immediately in love with each other. But their fathers would not allow the two to marry.
The two continued their relationship and the people of Provosinad in particular became attached to the charismatic couple, and their fathers and families became increasingly uneasy as the deadline of the peace treaty came ever nearer and things became ever more dangerous in the Kingless States.
It was King Kaland that caved in, allowing his daughter to wed Mikhail, and King Klaren followed suit. The resulting marriage, paired with the eventual deaths of the two Kings led to the union of Serdicial and Vansity. The other states, wedged between the two powerful intertwined lands, agreed to join this new land.
The result was the Serdica Union. The Union, which continued as a monarchy for it's entire length, lasted almost eight hundred years from 958 AD to 1753 AD.
The Fall of the Union
During the mid 18th century, turmoil began to emerge in the Union. After centuries under the rule of the royal family, and routine wars against neighbouring nations, the populace was ready for change and wanted it badly. The current King, Mikhail the Sixth, wanted nothing to do with it. Tensions rose throughout the nation as the police and military became harsher in their justice and protestors became more vocal. Many could see the Union was beginning to fall apart and that Mikhail's cruel measures would do little to delay the inevitable.
Secession of Serdicial
The fall of the Union began in 1752. A group of military units, dubbed the Lances of Serdica, suddenly mutinied against their commanding officers and seized control of several key stations around the city of Larhen, the capital of the state of Serdicial. Amazingly, despite the King's vehement order for the mutineers to be exterminated, several other units and many police detachments throughout the state joined the Lances in what appeared to be a cunningly well organized coup de etat. The citizens of the state joined as well and what few people loyal to the Union remained were driven out... or slain. The King could hardly conceal his rage and ordered the prompt mobilization of his army.
However, as things inevitably go, the Lances had seen this coming and had bribed over the majority of the King's military staff into delaying the mobilization as long as possible. Supplies wound up in the wrong cities, long dead soldiers were called to the front line, officers were randomly demoted and promoted. A commonly quoted report had three officers killed for having funny mustaches, when two of them did not. All of it succeeded in staving off the attack of the Union Army long enough for Serdicial to enforce itself.
The impending invasion, thanks to the maneuvering of the undercover operators and generals in the pay roll of the Lances, never came to pass. The Lances, dubbed a terrorist group by the King, continued to flaunt their power by ordering assassinations seemingly at random, tearing away at the powerbase of the Union. The state of Provosinad struck out for independence a short six months after the secession of Serdicial. By 1754, the Union had ground to a halt and it's remaining members carried on their own way.
The Second War of Serdicial
The States and Serdicial continued on their own for a lengthy amount of time with little issue. The states, as well as Serdicial, began to use democracies, Vansity's royal family having been pushed into exile in the fall of the Union. The States were friendly with each other but as always distrustful of the sleeping giant on their border.
