Anglia & Israat
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| State of the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia | |||||||||
| 1653 AN–1668 AN | |||||||||
| State of Anglia & Israat | |||||||||
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| Kingdom | Kingdom of the Union of Caputia | ||||||||
| Founded | 1653 AN | ||||||||
| Dissolved | 30.XV.1668 AN | ||||||||
| Capital | Judah | ||||||||
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| • Type | Constituent state of a constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| • Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
| Population (1657 AN census) | |||||||||
| • Total | 8,255,923 | ||||||||
| Official languages | Common Tongue, Alexandrian, Haifan | ||||||||
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Anglia & Israat was a state of the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia in eastern Hamland, formed by the administrative union of the two Hammish regions of Anglia and Israat and governed from its capital at Judah. It existed for the life of the kingdom, from Caputia's foundation in 1653 AN to its dissolution on 30.XV.1668 AN, and at the founding census of 1657 AN it counted 8,255,923 inhabitants, among the largest of the ten states into which the kingdom was first divided.[1][2]
The state joined two regions of markedly different character. Anglia, the western of the two, had been settled by Hamlanders and lay within the eastern reach of Yerenism, the reformed Hammish religion; Israat, to its east, was the older territory of the Israati, a people of Yehudi descent whose native Judahite rite kept its reckoning at Judah and its cultic lamp at the older city of Ben Aliv.[3][4] This religious duality, an eastern rite set against a western reform within a single administrative unit, set Anglia & Israat apart from the other states of Caputia; under the kingdom, however, the established Church of Caputia displaced both, and neither the Judahite rite nor the Yereni Church of the Anglian interior held standing.[5]
Anglia & Israat ended with the kingdom it belonged to. On the dissolution of Caputia in 1668 AN the Judahite rite ceased as an organized body, and the state's territory lay unclaimed for a time before its capital was drawn into the expanding Wechua Nation. Judah lies today within that Region of Nouvelle Alexandrie, where it holds Special City status and where the Faith of Inti is established.[5]
Name
The name of the state was a compound of its two constituent regions. Israat was the original territory of the eastern marches of Hamland, the homeland of the Israati; the neighboring region of Anglia grew up to its west as Hamlanders settled the land toward the river.[5] The regional name Anglia is the Anglo-Saksen form of the territory's name, a usage it shares with the separate nation of Anglien and, in an older sense, with Jorvik; within Hamland it named the western of the two regions joined in the state.[6] When the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia was constituted out of the collapse of Hamland, the two regions were joined administratively into a single state and carried both names.[1]
History
The territory that became the state passed through the same successive sovereignties as its capital: the Israati cities of the eastern marches, the Commonwealth of Hamland in whose regions of Anglia and Israat the land was administered, the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia whose state of Anglia & Israat it formed for fifteen years, and, after the kingdom fell, the Wechua Nation into which its capital was drawn.[5]
The regions of Israat and Anglia
Israat was the older of the two regions and the original territory of the eastern marches. Its people were the Israati, of Yehudi descent, and its two historical cities were Judah, the administratively senior of the pair, and Ben Aliv, the older city and the seat of the cult of the Judahite rite. The tradition of the rite held that the Israati community and its standing lamp at Ben Aliv predated the arrival of the Hamlanders in the eastern marches, while a rival account, advanced in later centuries by Yerenist and Benacian writers alike, held that the Israati had come as migrants from Benacia; historians of Hamland have not arbitrated between the two.[5] Anglia grew up to the west as Hamlanders settled the land toward the river, and its interior fell within the eastern reach of Yerenism, whose heartland the Yerenist tradition placed in Tonaria, Anglia, and the east of Hamland.[5][3]
Under the Commonwealth of Hamland the two were administered as regions, Israat and Anglia standing among the Hammish provinces.[7] In Israat the court at Judah served as the senior tribunal, and advocates of the Israati community trained before the local Beth Din before their admission to the civil bar; among those the region produced was the jurist Carrie Fitzwater, born in Israat around 1618 AN, who would later draft the constitution of Caputia and serve as its first Chancellor of the Exchequer.[5][8] During these generations some Israati families left the region in successive waves and settled along the shores of Lake Morovia, joining the founding population of the Free State of Haifa; the tradition of the rite remembers them as "the lampless," and the schism their going-out opened was never resolved, only outlived.[5][9]
The Hammish Civil War
The collapse of the Commonwealth of Hamland brought civil war to the eastern marches, among the regions the fighting struck hardest.[1] The power vacuum threw up a succession of emergency governments, the Council of State for the Salvation of Hamland folding into the National Provisional Authority under the interim premier Donat Ravaillac. It was in Anglia and Israat that the crisis turned: unrest broke out there over the unexplained death of Gerardo Lopez, one of Ravaillac's advisers, and the military's obstruction of the inquiry drove the tensions that ended in Ravaillac's assassination and the hardening of the Authority into a military dictatorship under General Augustus Eliphas.[1][8] Israat remained contested ground for the rest of the war. A faction known as the Israat Loyalists, whose fighters came mostly from the rural populations of Anglia and Israat, took the field as one component of the National Salvation Front, a Pallisican-backed umbrella that also gathered the Order of Rochefort and the labor syndicates.[5][10] Judah was held by the National Salvation Front, and the city's factories built a generation of tanks and aircraft for the resistance; it was largely spared the devastation visited on the rest of the country, keeping its ports, airfields, and industry intact.[5]
The war years fell heavily on the Israati east. The Alexandrian Flu of 1650 AN to 1652 AN, released by the National Provisional Authority from a biological-weapons facility at Porapa and spread by accident across the country, struck the eastern regions hardest of all and killed between thirty and sixty percent of their people.[1][5] The dying concentrated among the Israati communities and further hollowed the old rite, whose literature began in these years to disperse.[5] The opposition groups at length united under the National League and defeated the National Provisional Authority, and a constitutional convention of 250 deputies gathered at Zalae to settle the peace.[1]
State of the Kingdom of Caputia
Out of the collapse of Hamland arose the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia, proclaimed in 1653 AN as the successor state of the defunct Commonwealth and named for the ancient Caput Popularis, a usage the wartime rebels had revived to set themselves apart from the National Provisional Authority.[1] Its capital was fixed at Zalae and its crown offered to Regina Ravaillac, who took the regnal name Elizabeth I; she reigned over the kingdom, and over its government in exile after the dissolution, until her death in 1723 AN.[1] Israat, joined administratively with the neighboring region of Anglia, was constituted as the state of Anglia & Israat with its capital at Judah, one of the ten states into which the kingdom was first divided.[2]
The established church of the kingdom was the Church of Caputia, the body founded to spread the Melusinian faith after the goddess of the sea appeared to Regina Ravaillac; the queen had come ashore at Judah before walking the coast road to Zalae, where the vision occurred, and the city's Church of the Holy Vision was counted afterward among the church's principal churches.[1][5] The House of Rothborne kept a residence in the city, Silverhill Court, among its seats outside the sovereign's own courts.[5]
Dissolution and succession
Caputia was dissolved on 30.XV.1668 AN, under the White Plague that destroyed the kingdom, and with the kingdom the Judahite rite ended as an organized body.[1][5] The state of Anglia & Israat ceased with the crown it had belonged to, and its territory lay unclaimed for a time thereafter.[5] The Wechua Nation, expanding eastward after the Great Restoration of 1673 AN, in time brought Judah within its bounds; and when the Wechua Nation joined with Alduria to form the federation of Alduria-Wechua, later Nouvelle Alexandrie, the city passed with it.[5][11] There the Faith of Inti is established, and the Yehudi-descended population of Judah fell into the residual category of the regional census returns.[5] The eastern republic of Haifa, which had entered Caputia as a separate state and to which Israati emigrants had gone in the generations before, passed on the kingdom's fall to the administration of the Maritime Markets.[9]
Geography
Anglia & Israat lay in the eastern marches of Hamland, Israat forming its eastern part and Anglia its western. Its capital, Judah, stood on the coast at the eastern edge of the country, its harbor opening onto the sea; the older Israati city of Ben Aliv lay near it, and the two together formed the historical core of Israat.[5] To the south of Judah lay Lake Morovia, along whose shores stood the Free State of Haifa, founded by the Israati who had gone out from the region.[5][9] Anglia, the western region, ran inland toward the river, where Hamlander settlement and the eastern congregations of the Yereni Church were concentrated.[5][3]
Government
Anglia & Israat was a constituent state of the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia, a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy with its capital at Zalae and its crown held by Elizabeth I.[1] The states were the principal administrative districts of the kingdom, each divided into municipalities and independent cities, and together with the Royal District of Zalae they returned members to the Parliament of Caputia by an apportionment of seats fixed at each census.[2] The state returned its own members under the constituency styled Israat & Anglia; among them was the jurist Carrie Fitzwater, who had presided over the founding Constitutional Convention as President Pro Tempore and sat for the seat as leader of the National Unity Party, the largest party of the first Parliament.[8] Judah, the state capital, was governed by a mayor; at the state visit of the Kaiser of Shireroth it was the mayor of Judah who represented the state before the kingdom's guest.[5]
Religion
The union of Anglia and Israat set two religious traditions within a single state. The Israati east was the home of the Judahite rite, the Yehudi-tradition religion native to the region, whose reckoning, the court that computed the liturgical year against the Norton calendar, sat at Judah while its cultic lamp stood at the older city of Ben Aliv; the rite took its name from that court rather than from its holy site.[4][5] The Anglian interior, by contrast, lay within the eastern reach of Yerenism, the reformed Hammish faith of the Overgod Tiron, whose scripture was the Book of Yeren and whose clergy, the Yeronim, admitted believers by the kissing of a candle lit from an ever-flame passed from candle to candle.[3] The two traditions stood in open dispute over that fire: the Yeronim traced their ever-flame to a single origin, and the Judahite rite of Israat contested where the first flame had come from, setting the standing lamp of Ben Aliv against the Yerenist candle.[3][4]
Neither tradition survived the kingdom as an established faith. Under Caputia the state church was the Church of Caputia, the Melusinian body founded after the vision at Zalae, and under it neither the Judahite rite nor the Yereni Church of the Anglian interior held standing; the Caputian church took hold at Judah in their place.[5] The Israati rite, already thinned by the emigration of the lampless and by the mortality of the Alexandrian Flu, declined through the plagues and wars of the Hammish collapse and ended as an organized body with the fall of the kingdom in 1668 AN.[5][4] After the state's passage to the Wechua Nation the established religion of Judah became the Faith of Inti. The Church of Caputia was carried on in the region by its successor, the Melusinian Faith, while a distinct Bovic communion, the Dozan Bovic Church, removed its Cathedral of Melusine, the seat of its Bosarch of Zalae-Judah, to Judah after the kingdom fell.[5]
Demographics
At the founding census of 1657 AN the state numbered 8,255,923 inhabitants, among the most populous of the kingdom's states; by the census of 1663 AN the kingdom's own returns recorded it far higher, at 31,515,101, the largest of the states.[2][1] Its people were drawn from the two regions the state had joined: the Israati of the east, of Yehudi descent and concentrated about Judah and Ben Aliv, and the Hamlander population of Anglia to the west, together with the Caputian and Haifan communities of the capital.[5] The languages long current in Judah were the Common Tongue, Alexandrian, and Haifan, the last the liturgical language of the Judahite rite.[5] The Hebraic naming register the Israati shared with Judah and with Haifa reached even into the Caputian royal house, giving Judith Ravaillac her name.[5]
Economy and culture
Economic life was centered on the capital. Judah's shipyards and factories, which had armed the National Salvation Front through the civil war, carried into the Caputian period, and its port was enlarged under the kingdom.[5] Film was the state's chief cultural industry: the Judah Film Festival, held since 1616 AN, brought studios to the city that made Judah and Zalae the two centers of Caputian film production.[5]
The Yehudi heritage of Israat was carried in the region's association football. Maccabi Judah, founded in the Hammish era and a founding member of the regional league, bore that heritage in its badge and colors and drew its roster mostly from players of the region, and the neighboring city of Ben Aliv fielded its own club, Hapoel Ben Aliv.[5][12] Under Caputia the capital gained a second club, the Judah Jaguars, who played in the Premier Division of the Football Association of Caputia and recruited from the former Maccabi Judah.[5] Of the vocabulary of the Judahite rite, the two club names Maccabi and Hapoel are the only words to have remained in common use after the rite itself had ended.[4]
Legacy
The capital and the lost rite both outlived the state. Judah endured the fall of Caputia and its long interval unclaimed to become a Special City of the Wechua Nation, ranking among the busiest ports of Nouvelle Alexandrie.[5] In 1734 AN, sixty-six years after the dissolution had ended the Judahite rite as an institution, the philologist Yoel Maccabi founded the Israati University of Judah to recover the lost tradition from the hostile Yerenist literature in which most of it survives, working from the two scholars the rite remembered, Nahum of Judah and Eliav of Ben Aliv; the university described itself as one of revival rather than survival.[5][13]
The Israati and Haifan communities of the former state persisted under Nouvelle Alexandrie. In 1716 AN former Caputians of Israati and Haifan descent raised the Israati-Haifan Defense Force, an unsanctioned paramilitary formed against the disorder of the Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union, with early training camps near Judah and Midyan.[5] Of the wartime factions of the east, the Israat Loyalists were among the armed wings of the National Salvation Front that merged into the nascent Caputian forces at the peace; the Order of Rochefort, the militant religious order based across the eastern states, was the one wing that refused absorption.[10][1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Caputia.
- ^ a b c d Subdivisions of Caputia.
- ^ a b c d e Yerenism.
- ^ a b c d e Judahite rite.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj Judah.
- ^ Anglia.
- ^ Hamland.
- ^ a b c Carrie Fitzwater.
- ^ a b c Free State of Haifa.
- ^ a b National Salvation Front.
- ^ Wechua Nation.
- ^ Maccabi Judah.
- ^ Israati University of Judah.
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