Toopoxia
06-01-2007, 00:13
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General
Capitol: Volitaia City
Biggest City: Volitaia City
Population: 15 million
Language: Latin, Russian
Type of Goverment: Monarchy
Head of State: Queen Tatyana I
Head of Goverment: Lord Gaius
National Stance: Aggressive
Political Stance: Nationalist
Anthem: N/A
Religion: Greek Orthodox Christianity
History
Pre-Dynasty Volitaia
Archeological evidence records a civilisation of highly advanced farmers being replaced by a hunter gatherer civilisation at around 10000 BC, the evidence reveals an early form of the sickle and other stone tools, in this time the Volitaian Desert was a rich farming land, however, possibly due to overgrazing, this farming land slowly became desiccated and formed what was called the Volitaian Desert in around 2500 BC, naturally the farming civilisation moved to the Volitaia River to continue farming in what was now a far more arable land.
Scholars have continously changed the views on Ancient Volitaia several times depending on the archeological evidence, many agree that the Nomadic time ended at around 6000 BC when evidence shows that people were constructing large permanant buildings and beggining to herd cattle, before the Desert had formed, the south western corner of Volitaia had become a booming center of civilisation, which as mentioned before slowly dissolved and fled to the Volitaia river.
Those who did not flee to the safety of the Nile migrated hoping to find fertile lands in other areas of the region, these settlers founded many of the modern neighbours of Toopoxia and assisted in the creation of many thousands of other civilisations.
Early Dynasty Volitaia
No-one can agree on a specific date of when the Volitaian dynasty came to power, most agree that it happened at around 3100 BC, at around the same time the Volitaian River villages merged into one power ruled in the city of Naibe, interesting to note that this city was originally called Volitaia, the name Volitaia also originated at this time, it is known that this name originates from the King known as Ak-Voli, Volitaia means "Peoples Voli"
The Volitaian state made an expansion which is well known due to its coinciding with the invention of writing, the borders expanded up to the Regi Luni Mountains in the East, Lake Luni in the South, Volitaian Sea in the East and what is now modern Hydac in the North.
[B]Third Dynasty
Due to its unique position in the world Volitaia became a highly defendable state, after several defensive wars with neighbouring nations, which all failed, the nation turned its attention towards peace and trading, in this time of cultural expansion the civilisation built many temples and monuments which have become popular tourist attractions to this date.
Along with the cultural advances this time brought about political strength, the King was now able to call upon any slave thanks to the bringing about of a cencus which gives archeologists from today the ability to tell us that the population of Volitaia at around 1000 BC was about 26,000,000.
Rebellion and the Fourth Dynasty
This extreme population explosion mixed with the sudden drought of the Volitaia river led to a rebellion which resulted in the closing of the Third Dynasty and the seperation of the Volitaian provinces into seperate kingdoms each vying for power, many of these Kings refered to themselves as being the Fourth Dynasty each one believing that it would be their families which would unify Volitaia.
Due to a long period of intermarriage between dynastical families the situation ended up with the Lower and Upper Volitaian Kings each wishing to destroy the other.
King Ak-Nupai eventually unified the nation via a long military campaign which continued beyond the borders of Volitaia and through to many other nations including overseas colonies, The Capitol was moved from Naibe to Volitaia and a huge royal construction system took place, Ak-Nupai is often regarded as the best of the Fourth Dynasty Kings.
Hykosian Period
A Semitic tribe established in the North East began a military campaign to push back the Volitaian borders, they managed to sieze many of the Volitaian overseas colonies and broke through the tough borders of the nation using a new technology, the "War Chariot", The Fourth Dynasty ended with a Hykosian King ruling Volitaia.
The Hykosian Empire began to crumble due to corruption and unrest, many of the Volitaian provinces never returned to Volitaia and the area known as Volitaia fell into unrest, many of the improvements made in the third and fourth dynasties were destroyed, several attempts to again re-unify Volitaia failed without attempt and for hundreds of years the area remained in unrest.
Early Toopoxican Volitaia
The first governor of Volitaia, Lexin Greblosk brought Northern Volitaia under control by means of a highly successful tactic whereby he would ally different warring factions off against eachother, partway through the conquest however he was recalled by his sponsor, long time rival King Egleski of Smorrg, in complete defiance he continued the conflict with no assistence from the King.
When one of Lexins ranking commanders betrayed him at the battle of Al Miny he suspected that it was due to King Egleski, this sent Lexin into a rage and he issued a call for Egliski to be deposed, this further fractured the already tense relationship between the concerned Slavic Kings and the continuously notorious Lexin, in response an emmisary was sent to bring Lexin and his invasion force back to Smorrg without question.
Lexin defied orders once more and continued to move his forces southwards and enstated himself as King of these lands which he named Toopoxia in recognition for his ethnic background, unwilling to face a war with a popular and dangerous man the Slavic nations backed off, refusing to acknowledge Lexin or his new kingdom
The second King of Volitaia, Gaius Groblosk, made an unsuccessful campaign to invade Southern Volitaia, which would not be unified until King Lexin II, and Old Hykosia, after the failure of these campaigns Gaius began an internal campaign to rid the nation of natives and bring about his own cultural background.
In using often cruel systems of forced labour the population of true Volitaians was decimated, the resulting population loss severely weakened the ability of the natives to resist this quiet genocide.
Golden Age of Toopoxia
During the early few years of 1000AD the nation of Toopoxia flourished as a Kingdom, expanding its empire to include colonies in Asia (controlled by the Toopoxican Trading Organisation, later just the Toopoxican Organisation) becoming a major trading empire in the world, this nation flourished both economically and culturally and it is majorly due to these developements that this is known as the so called golden age of the Toopoxican Kingdom.
It was also in this time that the Slavic nations who had formerly shunned Toopoxia formally recognised the state which caused a decline in wealth amongst the Toopoxicans, immediatly following this came the sudden end of the house of Lexin leaving Toopoxia without a powerful leader and the future of the nation in jeapordy.
A quick Republic was created to seal up the power vaccum, however in its crippled state the Toopoxicans were forced into signing a naval treaty with Smorrg which hurt the trading power of Toopoxia and caused the Toopoxican Organisation to retreat to friendly shores, finally in 1052AD the Toopoxicans declared war on Smorrg concerning the naval treaty, the war was ended with the signing of the treaty of Volitaia.
Political Rise of the Toopoxican Organisation
Despite having a Legislative body to govern the area of Toopoxia there were many problems for the 200 years after the golden age, these varied from famines to wars with Smorrg in which much of the Colonial empire was lost, the Republic was hated amongst the populus who wanted a return to the Monarchy and amongst several Senators themselves.
The Toopoxican Organisation which had still been reeling from its wounds in colonial Toopoxia decided to take upon some of the Republics slack, this included openening trade routes with the neighbours of Toopoxia, utilising the Volitaia River to its full and forming a new uniform army based on skill rather than blood.
In this new Toopoxican regime the country managed to heal its wounds with Smorrg take back some of its lost territory and boost the goverment funds, however it also opened up hatred from the Republic who felt that they had been made redundant.
The 300 Years War
The Republic decided in 1312 that they had to end the Organisation, they released the issue to execute the Ibliski dynasty which ruled the Organisation and seize the assets of the group, unfortunantly no law-man could reach the Ibliski family which had the military firmly in its pocket, this sparked a war of treasuries with each side attempting to draw the military to either side.
The war officially began in 1323 when the Organisation siezed Volitaia and burned the republic house to the ground beleiving that this was the quickest way to control the nation, instead it caused a raising of Republican loyalists who sieged the City for 20 years whilst cities all over Toopoxia descended into chaos.
After this declaration of war there is little historical evidence to proove any major battle, most people were too busy fighting or too uneducated to write it down, what little evidence remains tells us that Gunpowder was introduced late in this war, and that it was due to the meddling from Slavic nations which caused this war to drag on for so long.
The Slavic nations obviously expected this war to completely destroy the nation of Toopoxia as they invaded the region many times during the closing years but failed to stop the war themselves, it is theorised that it was these invasions which caused the end of the 300 years war although the Treaty of Naibe suggests that the Organisation and the Republic came to a compromise in 1606.
Kingdom of Volislavia
After the fall of the Republic in the 1600's the middle Volitaia River came to be populated by the Mercantile state of Volislavia, midway through the 17th century the population converted to Orthodox Christianity which opened up trade with the Slavic nations of the North, in the wake of the Smorrgian conquests Volislavia was absorbed into Smorrgian culture.
Under Smorrgian rule the Islamic Church underwent a revival in Toopoxia with frequent migrations to and from Toopoxia, to the now Orthodox Islamic nation the Crusades seemed far more of a risk than the Smorrg, even the Organisation managed a return under a system more like the largest Corporations of the time.
Marcus Alexandrovich re-founded the nation of Toopoxia as the Principality of Volitonia, located in the city of Volitaia, eventually expelling the dwindling Slavic nations and absorbing the parent state of Volislavia and becoming the second Kingdom of Toopoxia under the rule of King Marcus II.
Early Modern Toopoxia
The people then had a fear that the Alexandrovich line may end like the Lexin line before it when Marcus II died leaving only his Daughter Tatyana to carry on the Throne, Tatyana became the first Queen of Toopoxia.
Main Characters
Tatyana Lexin Alexandrovich
Age: 28
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 8 stone
Hair Colour: Brunette
Eye Colour: Brown
Marital Status: Unmarried
Profession: Queen
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Queen of Volislavia, Queen of Volitonia
Notes: Dislikes the idea of marriage
Gaius Greblosk
Age: 37
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 12 stone
Hair Colour: Brunette
Eye Colour: Brown
Marital Status: Single
Profession: Duke
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Duke of Volitaia
Notes: Is romantically linked to Queen Tatyana
Constantine Briullov
Age: 21
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 11 stone
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Marital Status: Single
Profession: Commodore
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Commodore
Notes: In active duty around the Sea of Lexin disrupting Pirate activities.
General
Capitol: Volitaia City
Biggest City: Volitaia City
Population: 15 million
Language: Latin, Russian
Type of Goverment: Monarchy
Head of State: Queen Tatyana I
Head of Goverment: Lord Gaius
National Stance: Aggressive
Political Stance: Nationalist
Anthem: N/A
Religion: Greek Orthodox Christianity
History
Pre-Dynasty Volitaia
Archeological evidence records a civilisation of highly advanced farmers being replaced by a hunter gatherer civilisation at around 10000 BC, the evidence reveals an early form of the sickle and other stone tools, in this time the Volitaian Desert was a rich farming land, however, possibly due to overgrazing, this farming land slowly became desiccated and formed what was called the Volitaian Desert in around 2500 BC, naturally the farming civilisation moved to the Volitaia River to continue farming in what was now a far more arable land.
Scholars have continously changed the views on Ancient Volitaia several times depending on the archeological evidence, many agree that the Nomadic time ended at around 6000 BC when evidence shows that people were constructing large permanant buildings and beggining to herd cattle, before the Desert had formed, the south western corner of Volitaia had become a booming center of civilisation, which as mentioned before slowly dissolved and fled to the Volitaia river.
Those who did not flee to the safety of the Nile migrated hoping to find fertile lands in other areas of the region, these settlers founded many of the modern neighbours of Toopoxia and assisted in the creation of many thousands of other civilisations.
Early Dynasty Volitaia
No-one can agree on a specific date of when the Volitaian dynasty came to power, most agree that it happened at around 3100 BC, at around the same time the Volitaian River villages merged into one power ruled in the city of Naibe, interesting to note that this city was originally called Volitaia, the name Volitaia also originated at this time, it is known that this name originates from the King known as Ak-Voli, Volitaia means "Peoples Voli"
The Volitaian state made an expansion which is well known due to its coinciding with the invention of writing, the borders expanded up to the Regi Luni Mountains in the East, Lake Luni in the South, Volitaian Sea in the East and what is now modern Hydac in the North.
[B]Third Dynasty
Due to its unique position in the world Volitaia became a highly defendable state, after several defensive wars with neighbouring nations, which all failed, the nation turned its attention towards peace and trading, in this time of cultural expansion the civilisation built many temples and monuments which have become popular tourist attractions to this date.
Along with the cultural advances this time brought about political strength, the King was now able to call upon any slave thanks to the bringing about of a cencus which gives archeologists from today the ability to tell us that the population of Volitaia at around 1000 BC was about 26,000,000.
Rebellion and the Fourth Dynasty
This extreme population explosion mixed with the sudden drought of the Volitaia river led to a rebellion which resulted in the closing of the Third Dynasty and the seperation of the Volitaian provinces into seperate kingdoms each vying for power, many of these Kings refered to themselves as being the Fourth Dynasty each one believing that it would be their families which would unify Volitaia.
Due to a long period of intermarriage between dynastical families the situation ended up with the Lower and Upper Volitaian Kings each wishing to destroy the other.
King Ak-Nupai eventually unified the nation via a long military campaign which continued beyond the borders of Volitaia and through to many other nations including overseas colonies, The Capitol was moved from Naibe to Volitaia and a huge royal construction system took place, Ak-Nupai is often regarded as the best of the Fourth Dynasty Kings.
Hykosian Period
A Semitic tribe established in the North East began a military campaign to push back the Volitaian borders, they managed to sieze many of the Volitaian overseas colonies and broke through the tough borders of the nation using a new technology, the "War Chariot", The Fourth Dynasty ended with a Hykosian King ruling Volitaia.
The Hykosian Empire began to crumble due to corruption and unrest, many of the Volitaian provinces never returned to Volitaia and the area known as Volitaia fell into unrest, many of the improvements made in the third and fourth dynasties were destroyed, several attempts to again re-unify Volitaia failed without attempt and for hundreds of years the area remained in unrest.
Early Toopoxican Volitaia
The first governor of Volitaia, Lexin Greblosk brought Northern Volitaia under control by means of a highly successful tactic whereby he would ally different warring factions off against eachother, partway through the conquest however he was recalled by his sponsor, long time rival King Egleski of Smorrg, in complete defiance he continued the conflict with no assistence from the King.
When one of Lexins ranking commanders betrayed him at the battle of Al Miny he suspected that it was due to King Egleski, this sent Lexin into a rage and he issued a call for Egliski to be deposed, this further fractured the already tense relationship between the concerned Slavic Kings and the continuously notorious Lexin, in response an emmisary was sent to bring Lexin and his invasion force back to Smorrg without question.
Lexin defied orders once more and continued to move his forces southwards and enstated himself as King of these lands which he named Toopoxia in recognition for his ethnic background, unwilling to face a war with a popular and dangerous man the Slavic nations backed off, refusing to acknowledge Lexin or his new kingdom
The second King of Volitaia, Gaius Groblosk, made an unsuccessful campaign to invade Southern Volitaia, which would not be unified until King Lexin II, and Old Hykosia, after the failure of these campaigns Gaius began an internal campaign to rid the nation of natives and bring about his own cultural background.
In using often cruel systems of forced labour the population of true Volitaians was decimated, the resulting population loss severely weakened the ability of the natives to resist this quiet genocide.
Golden Age of Toopoxia
During the early few years of 1000AD the nation of Toopoxia flourished as a Kingdom, expanding its empire to include colonies in Asia (controlled by the Toopoxican Trading Organisation, later just the Toopoxican Organisation) becoming a major trading empire in the world, this nation flourished both economically and culturally and it is majorly due to these developements that this is known as the so called golden age of the Toopoxican Kingdom.
It was also in this time that the Slavic nations who had formerly shunned Toopoxia formally recognised the state which caused a decline in wealth amongst the Toopoxicans, immediatly following this came the sudden end of the house of Lexin leaving Toopoxia without a powerful leader and the future of the nation in jeapordy.
A quick Republic was created to seal up the power vaccum, however in its crippled state the Toopoxicans were forced into signing a naval treaty with Smorrg which hurt the trading power of Toopoxia and caused the Toopoxican Organisation to retreat to friendly shores, finally in 1052AD the Toopoxicans declared war on Smorrg concerning the naval treaty, the war was ended with the signing of the treaty of Volitaia.
Political Rise of the Toopoxican Organisation
Despite having a Legislative body to govern the area of Toopoxia there were many problems for the 200 years after the golden age, these varied from famines to wars with Smorrg in which much of the Colonial empire was lost, the Republic was hated amongst the populus who wanted a return to the Monarchy and amongst several Senators themselves.
The Toopoxican Organisation which had still been reeling from its wounds in colonial Toopoxia decided to take upon some of the Republics slack, this included openening trade routes with the neighbours of Toopoxia, utilising the Volitaia River to its full and forming a new uniform army based on skill rather than blood.
In this new Toopoxican regime the country managed to heal its wounds with Smorrg take back some of its lost territory and boost the goverment funds, however it also opened up hatred from the Republic who felt that they had been made redundant.
The 300 Years War
The Republic decided in 1312 that they had to end the Organisation, they released the issue to execute the Ibliski dynasty which ruled the Organisation and seize the assets of the group, unfortunantly no law-man could reach the Ibliski family which had the military firmly in its pocket, this sparked a war of treasuries with each side attempting to draw the military to either side.
The war officially began in 1323 when the Organisation siezed Volitaia and burned the republic house to the ground beleiving that this was the quickest way to control the nation, instead it caused a raising of Republican loyalists who sieged the City for 20 years whilst cities all over Toopoxia descended into chaos.
After this declaration of war there is little historical evidence to proove any major battle, most people were too busy fighting or too uneducated to write it down, what little evidence remains tells us that Gunpowder was introduced late in this war, and that it was due to the meddling from Slavic nations which caused this war to drag on for so long.
The Slavic nations obviously expected this war to completely destroy the nation of Toopoxia as they invaded the region many times during the closing years but failed to stop the war themselves, it is theorised that it was these invasions which caused the end of the 300 years war although the Treaty of Naibe suggests that the Organisation and the Republic came to a compromise in 1606.
Kingdom of Volislavia
After the fall of the Republic in the 1600's the middle Volitaia River came to be populated by the Mercantile state of Volislavia, midway through the 17th century the population converted to Orthodox Christianity which opened up trade with the Slavic nations of the North, in the wake of the Smorrgian conquests Volislavia was absorbed into Smorrgian culture.
Under Smorrgian rule the Islamic Church underwent a revival in Toopoxia with frequent migrations to and from Toopoxia, to the now Orthodox Islamic nation the Crusades seemed far more of a risk than the Smorrg, even the Organisation managed a return under a system more like the largest Corporations of the time.
Marcus Alexandrovich re-founded the nation of Toopoxia as the Principality of Volitonia, located in the city of Volitaia, eventually expelling the dwindling Slavic nations and absorbing the parent state of Volislavia and becoming the second Kingdom of Toopoxia under the rule of King Marcus II.
Early Modern Toopoxia
The people then had a fear that the Alexandrovich line may end like the Lexin line before it when Marcus II died leaving only his Daughter Tatyana to carry on the Throne, Tatyana became the first Queen of Toopoxia.
Main Characters
Tatyana Lexin Alexandrovich
Age: 28
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 8 stone
Hair Colour: Brunette
Eye Colour: Brown
Marital Status: Unmarried
Profession: Queen
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Queen of Volislavia, Queen of Volitonia
Notes: Dislikes the idea of marriage
Gaius Greblosk
Age: 37
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 12 stone
Hair Colour: Brunette
Eye Colour: Brown
Marital Status: Single
Profession: Duke
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Duke of Volitaia
Notes: Is romantically linked to Queen Tatyana
Constantine Briullov
Age: 21
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 11 stone
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Marital Status: Single
Profession: Commodore
Alliegence: Toopoxia
Titles: Commodore
Notes: In active duty around the Sea of Lexin disrupting Pirate activities.