Telkarnatha
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The Republican Hegemony of Telkarnatha Τελκαρναθα (Telki/Telkan-Hellinesian, Telkan Sign Language) |
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Τελκαρναθα (Ingerish - Telkarnatha, also sometimes called Tebranatha), officially Ηγεμονική Δημοκρατία της Τελκαρναθα (Ingerish - The Republican Hegemony of Telkarnatha;), is a constitutional democratic federalist republic island-nation in Eastern Uletha, in the Plurinesian Sea. Telkarnatha's capital is Selarohak. It shares no borders but is close to the countries of Goytakanya, Suvuma, Samiloor and Aurelia, with its rich and diverse history it is one of the most densly populated regions on the Plurinesian Archipelago, after Goytakanya. With evidence of humans in the region dating back to 55,000 B.P. the country is the meeting point of Archantan, East Ulethan and West Ulethan Cultures and has a rich history of multiple cultures, but also multiple conflicts.
Etymology
While there is no clear consensus on the etimology of the name, most scholars believe that Telkarnatha stems from Old Eganis Penelos (hellanesian), as Telkoranoi, meaning something along the lines of Land of the Tel/Tele, most probably it got shifted to Telkaranoi during the Telki language shift. Telkarnatha itself seems to be a corrupted version by both Hindu? and Mazanic that survived through the changes of names of the island.
Telkoranoi, for the Egani, defined most islands between Gobrassanya and Suvuma. While during the 18th century the complex of islands that comprised Telkarnatha was under the Gintyk Kingdom under the name Bhuvarunatoa, the Egani local elite continued to use the name for the main island as Telkarnatha, which was no different than the name for their area of incluence in the archipelago. After independence the main island changed names while Telkarnatha became the official name for the kingdom and later republic.
History
Ancient History
Human habitation of the islands starts around 55,000 B.P. during the first wave of migration of humans to Archanta, even though sea levels were lower at the period, the islands were still not connected to the mainland. This has made scholars suggest that the region was one of the first that saw the use of rafting to move across bodies of water, a technique that became common during the period in the Archantan Continent.
Paleolithic
During the ealy habitation of the island by what have been defined as Proto--Western-Archantans, most mammal species were driven to extinction, including all that suffered from peninsular gigantism, most famously, the Giant Leanface Rat. The Proto-Western-Archantans (PWA) had a singular shared culture, attested by the evidence of the famous "shark fashion" on all islands on the region. Sharks were hunted to create arrow heads, but also to be used as beads and to create other objects. The Karkarias Culture, the one shared by the PWA of the islands, existed between 40.000 B.P. to 20.000 B.P.
Last Glacial Maximum
During the last ice age, shifting patters of currents, and therefore, fish populations, resulted in a significant drop in populations of fish on the islands. The shallow coral sea that was now exposed was bad soil, and it was terrible to live upon, forcing population to sometimes walk miles to reach the coast. Though some brush and grass populations were able to start growing in small pockets of sand dunes, the strong winds that are theorized to have hindred the process of growth of trees and taller vegetal structures.
Populations on the region have been theorized to have hit as low as 3000 people during the peak of the Glacial Maximum, and groups on different islands became isolated.
Mesolithic
During the Mesolithic era, the local population slowly rose utilizing the fishing techniques learned during the Last Glacial Age, the original Telkans were avid swimmers and most probably had a similar better time underwater, as other insular populations show nowdays. They also were really protective of their local fauna, the Urutian Hog, a native endemic species on the island was able to stay alive during this time because of the fact they were not killed by Old Telkans. Around 10.000 B.P. the Durian Eruptions occured, a series of cascading eruptions on the main volcanos on the Archipelago, the largest was probably the cause of small period of volcanic winters around east uletha.
The population during the period, suffered from chronic famine caused by the volcanic period.
Neolithic
Sailors from East Uletha would generally used the islands as a resting stop on their way to Archanta, but the poor soil quality didn't allow for intensive farming in many places, making the most profitable part of the land, its many natural ports. A few trading posts would set up during sailing season on the island but they were temporary, the Neolithic never truly arrived at the island because the local people never learned agriculture neither did they have the concept of sedentarism. Agriculture would eventually arrive, by the form of East Ulethans colonizing the islands permantally, but this would erase old Telkans from the record. This wave of migration matches the one of northern ulethan migration patterns to south archanta
The Maxia Telkan Culture developed slowly, very infamous for Stilt constructions on small reef islands of the coast, however, during the arrival of Egani colonist, the Maxia Telakn Culture was rapidly erased from historical records. Egani people did end up absorbing this culture later in the history of the region.
Bronze Age
During the Bronze Age, Telkans were more and more visited by merchants, specially ones from Gobrassanya and North Archanta. The Main Island was rich in some ore materials, during this time the first urban center of Telkarnatha was formed, with no knowledge of the real name, scholars call the urban center of Chiaramotis, located aound what is know Houms, it was a densly populated community to up to 5000 inhabitants at its peak, it maintaned great relations with its ulethan neighbours north in the mainland, having many minted coins from the region. The Chiaran City Civilization, was formed by the entirety of the main island, other smaller settlements would dot the coast. It is unclear if the civilization at the period was of Egani origin or not. The written language found of the period on the island is not derived from the Egani alphabet and has yet to be deciphired.
However, the Ulethan mainland would introduce the horse to Chiaramotis, causing an unbalance in power, with a quick way to go around the island, deforestation once again became a problem, together with growing number of raids around the country. At that point records show the addition of a second urban center, Selem in around 1400 B.P., however, the settlement would last less than 200 years.
Bronze Age Collapse
Constant raids by boat and horse, the lack of big defenses and another collapse of the local biosphere caused many issues to the settlements around the island. Even though the collapse of the Late Chiara Civilization started before the general Late Bronze Age Collapse, the later fall of most localized merchant routes finished the Chiarans, the point where the collapse ends in the island is generally defined as the Great Fire, around 900 B.P. where large portions of the island suffered repetitive and destructive fires. Most of the population seems to have fled the islands in search of more stable lands during that period, the large de-population did in fact help in a quicker ecological recovery.
Iron Age
During the early iron age, merchants from Egania sailed as far as suvuma, early stages of the city-state colony stage can be seen by the establishing of Selaronoika and Ekatopolis as small ports, these cities were very loosely associated with Eganian affairs, however, during the expansion of Eganian colonies throughout the region, both of these small ports became official colonies of the Eganian world. The distance made them into their own Polis very quickly and their relation with Egania was more cultural than political, since their early days, both cities had large minorities of eastern ulethans as inhabitants, politically speaking these cities were a very famous spot for political exilees, a few philosophers found a new home at Selaronoika, the city advanced culturally over some other colonies. Economically both cities traded with many different nations, their isolation made for an easy defensible bastion, since most empires at the time avoided wasting their navies on invading a far away island.
Selaronoika fought for hegemony of the general area and eventually won after the small colonies of Ekatopolis in the Main Island decided to side wih Selaronoika. This hegemony would last until the Mazanic waves of migration. As the main city, Selaronoika launched multiple colony missions eastward, landing as far as Lutang, called by the Egani as Parthila, Selaronoika colonies followed a unique style of governence, where many followed a demokratía, while some would eventually revert back to having kings, democracy would still be present in day-to-day life. The introduction of Eganian Democracy in the islands is unclear, since most polis of the time still followed concepts of kings and princes, however, it is believed that a strong influence of archantan concepts of communal rule were responsible for influencing the early stages of the Selaronoika political experiment.
The expansion of the eganian world made the island closer to their allies, however the quick advancement of the Triaic? Empire in modern day Plevia/Valony slowed expansion processes, the Trian? Empire was more concerned on dominating the west than east, though it is accounted that some plevians? visited and even moved to Selaronoika and that Selaronoika became a client-state between 23 A.P. and 145 A.P., it seems the empire had no interest in controlling the cities after a point, most likely connected to the general chaos that befell the Triac? Empire in the late centuries of the empire. Slowly this would cut west ulethan culture from the island as eastern influence grew by constant waves of migration.
During the Late Iron Age, in 450 AP, the Telkaran Empire, based on Selarohak, became a true thalassocracy, having a big dominance over maritime routes around the eastern regions, this period is called as the Small Eganization of Archanta. During this period dozens of Egani cities dotted the Plurinesian Sea. During this period the Egani of the region became calling themselves as Pelenos (Πνηελήζι, Pelenési), after the mythological Penelope.
The Telkoranoi Polity was very loosely controlled and texed by Selarohak, while many of the farther Polis had very small Pelenesi populations, and were mainly controlled by local polities subjected to Selarohak, the closer island suffered a process of subjugation by the polity's metropolis. The islands of Pelenos, most of modern day Telkarnatha, were mostly Pelenesi in demographics, and their cities enjoyed a much more relaxed political overseeing by Selarohak, and had a degree onf independence.
This would later raise the old Ekatopolis vs. Selarohak feud, that started the First and Second Pelenesi Revolts. Though the first revolt caused the destruction of Ekatopolis and a higher control of Selarohak of Pelenos, the second revolt was long enough to break down control of farther colonies. Slowly Selarohak lost control and ability to protect its colonies, the Second Pelenesi Revolt ended with the invasion and destruction of Old Selarohak and the the fall of the Telkoranoi Polity after the Apelena region in Suvuma fell in the hands of local populations.
| City-State | Location | Description | Date of Inhabitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selaronoika | |||
| Ekatopoli | |||
| Larah | |||
Old Mazanic Immigration and Caliphate Dominance
Eastern influence was interrupted by a wave of migrations of pagan mazanic tribes from the caliphates of the Imani religion, originally part of more hellenized groups of Mazanic people. Though there seems to have been a big dislike to these immigrants, they were eventually accepted by the local elite thinking this would guarantee the ties with west uletha. However this would prove wrong, as Imanic expansion over the centuries would use the Mazanic ethnic composition of the island to justify invasion, later advancements towards Archanta solidified the Imanic rule over the island. The Hafid Caliphate invaded the island in 790 AP and it was harsh against paganism, however, strong opposition made it a hard task, multiple revolts of pelensi and mazanic groups kept hindering progress. Multiple decades of conflict would weaken the ability of the caliphate to wage war with Telkans, and eventually the island would be free once more.
East Ulethan Rule
From 1010 AP onward a multitude of eastern principates and kingdoms would rule over Telkarnatha, bringing waves of eastern immigration. Mainly from Gobrassanya, Selarohak was a very disputed city for its cultural richness, this didn't stop multiple waves of raiding and de-popultation of the original eganisian center, however, the strong association of Telkans with ancient Egani Culture was able to maintain a certain level of preservation, specially with the Acropolis of Selarohak and the Temple dedicated to Poseidon (later Pashada).
Gobrassanyan princes kept constant fight with others in the region for control of the islands around the Plurinesian Sea, Selarohak was specially a target for long blockades. From around 1200 AP to 1300 AP the city of Selarohak suffered from 5 different raids, and the population that was around 16000 dropped to mere 4000.
During the 1300's a group of eganized goytakanian natives invaded the old city of Porenthi, and stablished the Gintyk Kingdom. The Gyintik Kingdom was able to gain control of Pelenos and Suvuma. During that period Goytakanians migrated to the eastern coasts of Pelenos. The Eganized elite of the Gintyk Kingdom was able to exert a strong influence on internal politics of Pelenos, and Pelenesi maried into the Gintyk Dinasty, though there was a degree of hostility between both groups, the general exceptance of Eganian-Goytakanii Culture was able to further integrate eastern ulethans on the islands into the Pelenesi way of life.
West Ulethan Colonialism
During the the 1500's the Ingreans and Castellans were in a period of colonial expansion, the Gintyk Kingdom, centralized in Goytakanya, had been exerting heavy taxes on ships passing in the region. During that period, the rennaisance ideas from Plevia and Valonne started a period of civil unrest in the Pelenos Archipelago.
Almost 200 years of Gyintik Rule had create a scenario of delicate geo-politics, in which betwen 1450-1530, there were around 30 civil uprisings against Gintyk rule.
Ingrea saw an oportunity to weaken the Gintyk, so quickly it fueled a revolt against Goytakanian rule over the island.
Seldomian Wars
The Seldomian Wars are a period of battles between 1567 AP and 1630 AP that led to the de-facto independence of most of the Telkan cities around the Pelenos Archipelago. Fueled by hatred of Goytakanian Elites and taxation and a re-introduction to many old Eganian philosophers, the Selarohak local elected king called upon the cities of the main Pelenos Islands and Ekatopoli (at the time Elatuvam) to revolt, with the promisse of external help of Ingreans, and quickly a number of cities revolted, many even killing their Goytakanian rulers.
In 1567 AP, the Gintyk Navy reached Larah, with the objective of establishing control over an important port of the main Pelenos island, however, the Ingreans intervened and chased the Gintyk out of the bay, this type of battle would continue, until Gintyk rule of the northern city of Dhian was restablished in 1580 AP, and troops moved south to Selarohak, killing many on its path.
In 1582 AP, in the Battle of Necaeton, the Telkian Revolutionaries won over Gintyks, the Gintyk maintained control of the north part of the Pelenos Archipelago until 1630 AP, when a group of Telkan and Ingrean mercenaries invaded a costal fort of the Gintyk in Goytakanya, opening space for Ingreans to invade the core regions of Goytakanya and Suvuma. Quickly the Gintyk capitulated and control of the islands went to Ingrea.
Telkoranoi Civil War
Though promised independence, Telkans became subjects of the Ingrean Crown, and groups of Telkans of eastern ulethan or mazanic ancestry started to be expelled of the islands. This didn't seem to bother local Pelenesi rulers, who prefered to have external ethnicites moved to regions outside of Selarohak influence.
During this period local elites also were christinized, however, Ekatopoli, a heavly religious city under the polytheistic telkian religion had become adamant of Ingrean rule, specially the introduction of Christic Religion. In 1710 AP Ekatopolian civilians killed a Ingrean missionary, the response from the Ingrean was brutal, over 2500 pagans were killed in the city alone, and fires destroyed much of the city beyond the walls, this response shocked local population enough for civilian revolts to start in multiple cities, however, Selarohak, under the heavy influence of Ingrea, sided with the Crown.
Selarohak declared the Ingrean Dominion of Telkarnatha in 1715 AP, Ingrea came with force to end the revolts, and heavy bombardment of coastal cities started, over the next 10 years the island would keep falling in the hands of either one of the forces, Selarohak during the 10 years was invaded at least 20 times by civilian revolutionaries.
In 1726 AP Selarohak fell once again to the revolt, Ingrean General Harris Playwe had decided that it was best to blockade the city from all sides and bombard it, however, by the pleas of the exiled King of Selarohak, Menos Ogopolos, General Playwe decided to only kept the city surrounded. The issue of the Telkans, reached Ingrean King XXX, which was moved by the destruction caused to many ancient monuments, and because of his love of historical heritage, decided to declare all of Telkarnatha an independent protectorate in 1730 AP. Thinking this would ease relations between the two, later historians point to this move as a signal for Telkians that their fight was able to pressure Ingrea.
Hellenisian 1st Kingdom
The Eganian-Telkarnatha Protectorate has heavly influenced by eganian mainland philosophy, but also by brewing "ethnic" state ideas, a heavy period of eganian forced many communities of Buddhist and Hindu religion to convert to Telkia, Christics were given general freedoms on the cities, but were not allowed to do missionary work.
Goytakano Revolt
In 1790 AP, the Goytakanos, the ruling ethnic group that ruled over the Gintyk state and had a hold of the island of Goytakano revolted. Populations of Goytakanos around the protectorate fought over control over villages and cities, but the revolt failed, however, Ingrea decided to separate the Goytakano islands from Telkarnatha.
Hellenisian 2nd Kingdom
Between 1800 AP and 1910 AP, the Kingdom of Telkarnatha, now independent from Ingrea, slowed the process of forced conversions, but eganization continued, the country started to industrialize and became and important port center for the region, with a important naval base of Ingrea south of Selarohak in Limanopoli.
During the period, the pelenesi families gained most of the power in the island, and many non-pelensi nobles stared to be stripped of their titles.
Mazanic Coup and Ulethan Interference
In 1910 AP, Mazanic and Goytakano nobles invaded Selarohak in a coup, the objective was to revert the power grabs of pelenesi families and revert the eganization process. King Patros Agamonos II was exiled under the threath of execution, while the royal family managed to escape to mainland west uletha.
West Ulethan powers saw this coup as a dangerous precedent to other groups around the region. However, the economical hardships of the time halted quick responses, the Ingreans, decided to keep neutral as long as their naval Limanopoli base was kept intact.
Branatak Republic
In 1920 AP, after economical blockades, the Goytakano Leader Nawaz Gupta declared the Branatak Republic, expecing public moral to rise with the abolition of the monarchy, however, the population believed that cutting ties with west uletha would bring their anger over to the island and a retaliation would come. The Goytakano-Mazanic Republic enforced a mix of laws that were conservative in morals but liberal in economy, creating a confusing period of politics.
Pelenesi ex-nobles and some scholars started to discuss in places like Larah, Limanopoli and Ekatopoli about declaring a universal republic that would guarantee rights for all, as a way to calm the population and guaantee the de-escalation of further revolts.
Hellenisian Coup and Goytakano Exile
In 1934 AP, in the middle of the economical crisis, Pelenesi Telkans invaded the Parliament, declaring the Telkarnatha Republic, Goytakano insurgent groups like the Liberation Group started conducting massacres on mass of pelenesi on Goytakano majority areas.
Between 1934 and 1936 AP Ingrea helped the new republic to bring peace in the islands, and the decision was made to expell most Goytakanos to the Goytakano Archipelago, a move that would later be copied by Suvuma.
1st Telkarnatha Republic
The 1st Telkarnathan Republic existed in a hard period of political and economical times, with a war close to breaking out and a ever lasting economical crisis on the island, the government had a difficult time in maintaining control over insurgent groups around the island.
Ethnic Tensions
Ethnic tensions raised after the 1940's, and pelenesi groups started a targeted expulsion of east ulethan ethnic groups, seen as outsiders.
Hellenisian 3rd Kingdom
In 1949 AP, the economical toll of the on going war created a group of popular revolts, communists, monarchists, republicans, anarchists all declared their own republics or kingdoms, eventually the monarchists were able to convince what was left of the government to restablish the monachy. and in 1952 AP the Kingdom of Telkarnatha was declared.
Goytakano Genocide
During the period the Goytakano population of the island was believed to be around 60.000-90.000 thousand, located mostly around Opium Island, the government decided to conduct an expulsion of Goytakanos so that more Egani colonists could come to the island. During the period, around 50.000 thousand Goytakanos were expelled to Goytakano/Suvuma while another 10.000 to 30.000 thousand Goytakanos were killed by Telkarnathan Forces, until this day Goytakano relations with Telkarnatha are delicate.
Lindarokoi Coup
During 1952 and 1967, while the genocide was taking place, many civilians grew frustated with the backwards policies of the Monarchy, specially with proto-serfdom laws apperently being discussed. The high unemployment rate was also a big point of complaint, around 40% at the time, with a famine apperently about to happen, the Larah Communists decided to call upon the people to invade the parliament and end the monarchy.
Not much incentive was needed to be given, as the at-the-time current situation was bad enough for people to storm the parliament even with threaths of being shot, however, the military quickly turned against the royal family.
2nd Telkarnatha Republic
In 1970 after 2 years of a communist provisional government, Telkans voted to oust the communist rule and keep the Republic, communists were still part of the government but the population rejected the idea allowing a communist dictaroship to happen, and Ingrea was pressuring the communists to ablige, which they did.
With the Republic declared, a treaty was signed with Ingrea for the closing of the Naval Base of Limanopoli and the returnal of any other lands under Ingrean control to Telkarnatha
Geography
Islands
Climate
People
Culture
Teltel Language
States
Major Cities
- Selarohak
- Ekatopoli
- Houms/Kom
- Larah