Florescenta

8, 56.184, 30.201
Republic of Florescenta República Florescenta
Flag Coat of arms
250px Florescenta shown within Uletha
Capital and largest city	Porto Real
Official languages	Florescentian
Nationalities	Florescentian (98%), Other (2%)
Government	Parliamentary Republic
• Prime Minister
Area
• Total	37,054 km2
Population
• Estimate (2015)	8,074,352
• Density	217.9/km2
HDI (2014)	0.900 very high
Currency	Real (FRL)
Drives on the	right
Internet TLD	.fl

Florescenta, officially Republic of Florescenta is a parliamentary republic in north-western Uletha. Its capital and largest city is Porto Real.

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History

Old Florescentians

The origins of modern Florescenta can be first traced to the arrival of members of the Nortian Tribe from what is now Pretany between 300-400 AD. The circumstances surrounding the ancient migrations were unknown, possibly a population explosion that required outward migration and over-consumption of resources during that time. Another possibility suggested in remnant documentary evidence from the time suggests the Nortians may have been invited to assist in the expulsion of the Ioneans who had invaded from the south. Regardless of the circumstances of their arrival, these people, who are sometimes referred to as the "Old Florescentians", peacefully settled along the Rio Profundo which at that time was under the control of the Schwaldians to the north. By 650 AD Florescenta was a semi-independent realm under the control of a Margrave who was in turn in liege to the Kings of Schwaldia. Owing to it's perilous position on the Schwaldian Marches, the Old Florescentians bore the brunt of the numerous wars between that kingdom and the Beltish Kingdom to the south. The Old Florescentians spoke the Vallian language, a Romantish language that over the years came to be heavily influence by the surrounding Gaermanic languages of Beltgau and Schwaldia. Remnant pockets of this language endured until the XVIII century, when it fell into extinction in favour of the modern Florescentian language spoken there today.

As a result of it's precarious location, the population of Florescenta over the next thousand years was never particularly high; being ravaged by war and disease at every turn. According to modern estimates, it is thought the number of Old Florescentians never exceeded 100,000. Despite their impoverished position, the Old Florescentians were a proud people, and their lords were especially so. The common-folk were known as a master boatmen and fishermen, and worked the rivers and the nearby seas with expert precision. The nobility were also well-renowned in Schwaldia and elsewhere, with the ruling house being amongst the oldest in north-west Uletha.

By the beginning of the XIV century, the Protestant Reformation had erupted in north-west Uletha, and along with their Schwaldian overlords, the Old Florescentians also rejected the papacy and formed their own independent church.

Arrival of the Viscliths

Expulsion of the Viscliths at the port of Barnia, 1420.

Far to the south of Florescenta, a similar reformist movement, the Viscliths, had emerged in the mountain province of Galecia in northern Castellán. However unlike the Schwaldians, the Castellánese were unwilling to accept such a challenge to their authority, and attempted several time to suppress the Visclithic movement. Finally in 1420, the Viscliths were successfully rounded up and rather than tried and punished, the Castellánese authorities simply expelled them from the realm in perpetuity on the grounds of religious heresy.

Initially homeless, news of the Viscliths plight spread rapidly across north-west Uletha. Upon reaching the court of the Old Florescentians, newly crowned and ambitious young margrave, Ricardo III, chose to act on their plight and invited the Viscliths to settle in the sparsely populated Florescentian Marches, and join the Old Florescentian already settled there. With their common heritage as descendants of the Nortian Tribe, the two cultures found they had much in common, and within a generation, what little conflict there had between the two groups was swiftly ended. Put simply, there was more than enough land and resources to go around, and the presence of another 275,000 people in the Profundo valley made attacking it a much more complex venture. Indeed by 1450, the constant back-and-forth fighting between Schwadlia and Beltgau had come to an abrupt end.

Although the Visclith and Old Florescentian cultures merged swiftly over the next 200 years, the subtle differences between them endure to this day. Generally, the Castellánese heritage of Viscliths means that their descendants have much darker features than their Old Florescentian neighbours who are often pale skinned have and either blond or red hair.

War of the Three Crowns and Independence

Eleanor of Ingerland's death in 1636 triggered a succession crisis that rapidly spiralled into a war involving Ingerland, Schwaldia, and Florescenta - the so-called War of the Three Crowns.

Capital region

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Passenger railway service

Florescenta passenger railway service

Urban rail network of Porto Real

Urban rail network of Porto Real

Administrative division

Florescenta is divided into 10 provinces.

Name	Code	Capital	Area (km2)	Population	Density
Azul	AZL	Enseada Azul	2,730	164,165	60.1
Évora	EVR	Évora	2,998	324,168	108.1
Feliz	FLZ	Casa Miranda	4,515	700,484	155.1
Genta	GEN	Porto João	5,234	804,376	153.7
Leste	LST	Santo Donato	5,182	906,598	175.0
Meio	MEI	Vila António	3,732	1,315,446	352.5
Pedra	PDR	Bela Vista	4,179	605,828	145.0
Profundo	PRF	Vila Branca	2,334	416,212	178.4
Real	RE	Novo Castelo	2,339	1,944,900	831.6
Vitoria	VIT	Vitoria	3,811	892,175	234.1

Cities over 50,000 inhabitants

Rank	City	Inhabitants	Metro area
1	Porto Real	1,142,537	1,970,000
2	Vila António	784,451	1,380,000
3	Vitoria	398,973
4	Santo Donato	330,356
5	Porto João	315,843
6	Novo Castelo	203,578	See Porto Real
7	Vila Branca	173,068
8	Casamiranda	171,642
9	Bela Vista	151,229
10	Dos Cavaleiros	147,717
11	Évora	142,450
12	Valongo	126,756
13	Demenportão	123,573
14	Bocabanga	103,591
15	Fortaleza Do Sul	100,746
16	Castelo Do Norte	99,429	See Porto Real
17	Tavira	94,302	See Vila António
18	Baía De Paz	81,176	See Porto Real
19	Ensolarada	79,157	See Porto Real
20	Cadaval	74,614	See Vila António
21	Sabrosa	72,594	See Porto Real
22	Edmundo	68,455
23	Estrela Do Vale	51,392

See also

• List of rulers of Florescenta