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| Alessajndrjana Alessajndrjana |
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| Motto: "Trestzä Skątsche" "Trust in the Heavens" |
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| Capital | Peiredas | |
| Largest | Buenur | |
| Official language(s) | Ancient Almsaundean | |
| Ethnic groups | Alessans, Añdrians | |
| Demonym | Alessajndrjan | |
| Government | thelassocracy under religious oligarchy | |
| - | Archbishop | |
| - | Bishop | |
| Currency | Bieszchu (BSZ) |
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| Time zone | -1 | |
Alessajndrjana (/alɛssɒ~n'dʁjana/) is a former country of Daia and former city-state of Vereva. At the peak of its independency, it was adopted as a city-state by Vereva in the initial union of the country in 197. It split as the separate city-states of Alesse and Añdriana during the Fielosheim War.
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Etymology
Alessajndrjana comes from itself, an Ancient Almsaundean feminine name. It is said to be the name of the first Alessajndrjan archbishop's most beautiful daughter, who he had lost in a pirate raid which caused the destruction and defacement of the city of Peiredas, the capital of modern Alesse and Vereva's oldest city.
History
Alessajndrjana was established as a country circa 370 BCE. As a country, it was a thelassocracy governed by a religious oligarchy under Fieloseheimism lead first by the Leratt family, then by the Gerassec family.
As a Thelassocracy
As a thelassocracy, or a nation whose government dealt most prevalently with transoceanic trade and relations, Alessajndrjana was lead by the Gerassec family, noble relgious leaders of Fielosheim. It maintained an armada of 100 dreadnaughts for international trade and war which stationed at 8 large port cities along the coast. While at least the first 15 ships were made from the wood of trees cut down in its own territories, the remainder where designed from combinations of other Latelen trees and trees of Alessajndrjana's trade partners.
Across the ocean, Alessajndrjana's strongest commercial partners were ____, _____ and ____, though it also maintained steady business with other seaside cities all over the main continent as well as any small islands that had lain en route.
The government of ancient Alessajndjrana was influenced by a cultural interest in ocean, which they called Bogrjaj, and their fascination with the buoyant properties of wood. They perceived, influenced by Fielosheimism, that those who could use their wit to conquer all problems on earth would become gods in the next life.
Although transoceanic trade did not cease when Alessajndrjana joined Vereva in 197, it did become less of a factor within the legal structure of the country.
Joining Vereva
When Xahl frem Weręwem I first proposed in 185 to the various civilizations in northern Latelen that coming together as a union would benefit them all, Alessajndrjana was amongst the first nations to fall into accordance with the idea. Pfilipej Gerassec XIV, the archbishop of the time, was pleased by the fact that frem Weręwem I had come from neighboring Anderjam, where a high percentage of the population were practitioners of Fielosheimism, different from neighboring Country 11 across the Lilibeth River where very few citizens were practitioners.. Gerassec XIV found that unifying the peoples of the land could very well be the chance to promote religion and morals throughout the land, and eventually the world.
Gerassec XIV aided frem Weręwem I in his cause, traveling with him from city to city and capital to capital rallying the peoples for unity. The were met sometimes with malice when word spread that Gerassec XIV was the Alessajndrjan archbishop. While the two failed in lands across the Lilibeth River and the Enriwelelnhalli, they succeeded in Anderjam, Adeelie, Pferapf and Kalbin. Alessajndrjana gave up independence and, alongside 5 other nations, united as a semi-independent juncture of Vereva in 197.
Split of Alessajndrjana
Alessajndrjana, considered the place of origination of the Fielosheim religion, had remained a religious city-state until 677, when heresy against Fielosheimism spread throughout Alessajndrjana. The practitioners thought to "build a baracade between themselves and the heretics," as stated in the religions text of the Fielosheimbuekheit. Noticing that most heretics inhabited northern regions near the modern-day Rasoran Union, pracitioners devised the construction of the Divine Baracade (Dowaneffonse; Lindjerblau). The long wall, which would stretch from Anderjam to Buenur, incited the destruction of buildings in the way causing the Fielosheim War and the split of Alessajndrjana into Aless and Ajndrjana. Until the civil war was over, Aless and Ajndrjana, gained their independence under the Unity Clause (Wënotiemlaw; Lindjerblau) which states that city-states warring amongst themselves must declare independency to prevent other city-states from being dragged into their feud.
Geography
Alessajndrjana stretched across the regions of modern Alesse and Añdriana, bordering the Bogriai Ocean to the south, ancient Ąsje (Kalbin) to the northeast, Anderjam and ancient Adølie (Adeelie) to the east, and the Lilibeth River, which separated it from Country 11 in the west.
