Judah
| Judah | |
 Cities of Nouvelle Alexandrie | |
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| Official Name | City of Judah |
| Region | Wechua Nation |
| Government | |
| Type | Mayor-council |
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| Port(s) | Port of Judah |
| Economy & Culture | |
| Major Industries | Shipping, manufacturing, film, refrigerated cargo |
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| Universities | Israati University of Judah |
| Sports Teams | Maccabi Judah, Judah Jaguars, FC Chinchasuyu Judah |
Judah is a port city of the Wechua Nation, a Region of Nouvelle Alexandrie, where it holds Special City status. It ranks fourth of the Federation's seven busiest ports by tonnage. Judah was historically the senior city of Israat, the eastern region of the former Commonwealth of Hamland whose people were of Yehudi descent, and it later served as the capital of Anglia & Israat, a state of the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia.
The city gives its name to the Judahite rite, the Yehudi-tradition religion native to Israat, whose reckoning, the court that computed the liturgical year, sat at Judah while the rite's cultic lamp stood at the older city of Ben Aliv. Under Caputia the kingdom's established Church of Caputia was prominent in the city, and it was at Judah that Regina Ravaillac came ashore before the vision that founded that faith. On the dissolution of Caputia on 30.XV.1668 AN Judah was left unclaimed for a time before it was taken into the expanding Wechua Nation, and as of 1760 AN it lies within that Region of Nouvelle Alexandrie, where the Faith of Inti is established.
The Israati University of Judah, founded in 1734 AN as a revival of the lost Judahite learning, stands in the city, which also hosts the Judah Film Festival, held since 1616 AN. Its association football clubs include the historic Maccabi Judah and FC Chinchasuyu Judah.
History
The recorded history of Judah runs through four successive sovereignties: the Israati cities of the eastern marches, the Commonwealth of Hamland in whose region of Israat the city held the senior court, the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia whose state of Anglia & Israat it served as capital, and the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie within which it lies.
Origins and the Israati city
The origins of Judah are undocumented. The tradition of the Judahite rite holds 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. Judah and Ben Aliv stand as the two historical cities of Israat, Judah the administratively senior of the pair and Ben Aliv the older and the seat of the cult. Israat was the original territory of the eastern marches, and the neighboring region of Anglia grew up as Hamlanders settled the land toward the river.
Under the Commonwealth of Hamland
Under the Commonwealth of Hamland, Israat was administered as a region and the court at Judah served as its senior tribunal. Advocates of the Israati community trained before the local Beth Din prior to their admission to the civil bar. Among those the city produced was 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. During these generations some Israati families left the region in successive waves and settled to the south around 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. Judah itself grew as a commercial city of the eastern Commonwealth, recorded among the trading centers of central Hamland.
Hammish Civil War
The collapse of the Commonwealth of Hamland brought civil war to the eastern marches. In Israat the disturbances were settled by mediation under the interim premier Donat Ravaillac; the corresponding unrest in Haifa was instead suppressed. A faction known as the Israat Loyalists, drawn mostly from the rural populations of Anglia and Israat, fought as one component of the National Salvation Front, a Pallisican-backed umbrella that also gathered the Order of Rochefort and the labor syndicates. Judah was held by the National Salvation Front, and its factories built a generation of tanks and aircraft for the resistance. The city was largely spared the devastation visited on the rest of the country, keeping its ports, airfields, and industry intact. In these years the literature of the Judahite rite began to disperse.
Capital of Anglia & Israat
Out of the collapse of Hamland arose the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia, and Israat, joined administratively with the neighboring region of Anglia, was constituted as the state of Anglia & Israat with its capital at Judah. At the founding census of 1657 AN the state numbered 8,255,923 inhabitants. The Alexandrian Flu of 1650 AN to 1652 AN, which had killed between thirty and sixty percent of the eastern Commonwealth's people in the years of the kingdom's formation, fell heavily on the Israati communities and further hollowed the old rite.
The established church of the kingdom was the Church of Caputia, and under it neither the Judahite rite nor the Yereni Church of the Anglian interior held standing; the Caputian church took firm hold in the city instead. The House of Rothborne kept a residence in the city, Silverhill Court, among its seats outside the Sovereign's own courts. The city's economy under the kingdom rested on its shipyards and factories, its port on the eastern coast, and the film studios that had grown up around its festival.
Fall of Caputia and passage to Nouvelle Alexandrie
Caputia was dissolved on 30.XV.1668 AN, and with the kingdom the Judahite rite ended as an organized body. The city and its region lay unclaimed for a time thereafter. 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. There the Faith of Inti is established, and the Yehudi-descended population of Judah fell into the residual category of the regional census returns.
The Grand Imperial Tour of 1693 AN concluded at the city, where the Titular Emperor of Alexandria sailed home to Natopia, and the Grand Federal Tour of 1746 AN brought King Sinchi Roca II, Queen Adelaide, and their children to Judah for interfaith ceremonies at sites commemorating the region's religious heritage. In 1716 AN former Caputians of Haifan and Israati descent raised the Israati-Haifan Defense Force, an unsanctioned paramilitary formed against the disorder of the Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union; its earliest training camps stood near Judah and Midyan until they were closed by the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie early in 1717 AN. In 1734 AN, sixty-six years after the fall of Caputia had ended the rite as an institution, the philologist Yoel Maccabi founded the Israati University of Judah to recover the teaching of the lost tradition, an institution that described itself as one of revival rather than survival.
Geography
The city stands on the western seaboard of the Wechua Nation, its harbor opening onto the sea. The Wechua Nation is the most inland of the Keltian regions, and in its far west it touches the sea only around Judah, near the lands of the former Caputia; the islands of the Hexarchy lie off its coast. The city is joined inland by highway and rail toward Midyan and, beyond it, the Wechua interior. The older Israati city of Ben Aliv lies near it, and the two together formed the historical core of the region of Israat.
Demographics
The population of Judah is mixed. The Wechua Nation within which the city lies is majority Wechua-speaking, with the Common Tongue and Alexandrian also widely used; the city's older communities include the Yehudi-descended population that gives Judah its name, together with the descendants of its Caputian and Haifan residents. The languages long current in the city were the Common Tongue, Alexandrian, and Haifan, the last the liturgical language of the Judahite rite. The Hebraic naming tradition of Judah and the Hammish regions of Israat and Haifa reached into the Caputian royal house, giving Judith Ravaillac her name.
Economy
Among the principal ports of Nouvelle Alexandrie, Judah ranks fourth of the Federation's seven busiest by tonnage; the Port of Judah was enlarged by a dredging and expansion program in the Caputian period. The Treaty of Cajamarca of 1688 AN opened the port to citizens of the Hexarchy for duty-free trade, reciprocal to Hexarchy access at the Port of Ashtaroth. In later years the port came to specialize in refrigerated cargo for the Region's agricultural exports, and a training academy for climate-controlled shipping was established there with SATCo. The city is also a manufacturing center, a role it has held since its factories armed the National Salvation Front during the Hammish Civil War.
Judah is a rail hub as well as a port. The AV Keltia high-speed line reached the city on its westernmost branch from Sucre in 1716 AN, terminating at Judah Centrale. The Northwestern Rail company is building a passenger and freight line from Ancash to Judah by way of Arequipa and Midyan, and the Interurbanos network anchors its Chinchasuyu, Antisuyu, and trans-regional Costa a Costa services on the city. By road it is served by the Pan-Keltian Highway, carried through the city by route C24 toward Midyan and Parap and route C38 toward the lands of the former Caputia.
Government
As a Special City, Judah forms a third-level territorial subdivision of Nouvelle Alexandrie, a status granted to sizable conurbations and important manufacturing centers and carrying eligibility for direct federal subsidies. It sits within the Wechua Nation, though which of the Region's constituent states contains the city is not recorded. Under Caputia, Judah had been the capital of the state of Anglia & Israat and 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.
Religion
Three religious traditions have shaped Judah in turn. The city is the namesake and historical seat of the Judahite rite, the Yehudi-tradition religion native to Israat. While the rite's cultic lamp stood at Ben Aliv, its reckoning, the office that computed the liturgical year against the Norton calendar and adjudicated the tradition's disputes, sat at the court of Judah, and the rite took its name from that court rather than from its holy site. The rite declined through the plagues and wars of the Hammish collapse and ended as an organized body with the fall of Caputia.
The Church of Caputia bound itself to Judah from that church's beginning. It was at Judah that Regina Ravaillac, later Queen Elizabeth I, came ashore before walking the coast road to Zalae, where the vision occurred that founded the faith, and the city's Church of the Holy Vision was named in the church's canon among its principal churches. The established church of the kingdom until Caputia's dissolution in 1668 AN, it did not vanish with the state: its principal successor, the Melusinian Faith, carried the tradition on from a new seat outside the city, while a distinct Bovic communion, the Dozan Bovic Church, relocated its Cathedral of Melusine, the seat of its Bosarch of Zalae-Judah, to the city after the kingdom fell.
Since Judah's passage to the Wechua Nation the established religion has been the Faith of Inti, the faith of the great majority of the Region, and the Yehudi-descended inhabitants of Judah are counted among the residual body of the regional census. The Grand Federal Tour of 1746 AN brought the royal family to Judah for interfaith ceremonies at its historical religious sites. The Israati University of Judah, founded in 1734 AN, is dedicated to recovering the teaching of the lost rite from the hostile Yerenist literature in which most of it survives.
Culture
The cultural institutions of the Caputian kingdom were centered on Zalae and Judah. Chief among Judah's was film: the Judah Film Festival, held since 1616 AN, was founded under the Academy of National Film as a fundraising event and became a festival of Caputian and international independent cinema, and the studios that gathered around it made Judah and Zalae the two centers of Caputian film production. Its press included The Judah Times, the kingdom's principal business newspaper, and its calendar came to include the Judah Avant Garde Festival, a Caputian fashion event at which the labels National Wool and FractalForm debuted. Among the city's cultural landmarks are its Church of the Holy Vision and Silverhill Court, the House of Rothborne's residence there.
Education
The city is the seat of the Israati University of Judah, a private liberal-arts college founded in 1734 AN by Yoel Maccabi with an emphasis on religious studies. Its principal holding is the body of Yerenist polemical literature that preserves, in hostile quotation, most of what survives of Judahite teaching. The university gives its instruction in Alexandrian and Martino, with Haifan taught as a subject, and it is ranked twenty-third among the universities of Nouvelle Alexandrie. In the Caputian period the city also held the Judah Film School, one of only three tuition-free schools of the performing arts in the kingdom.
Sports
The football clubs of Judah reflect the Yehudi heritage of the Israat region. Maccabi Judah, founded in the Hammish era and a founding member of the regional league, carried that heritage in its badge and colors and rose to the Second Division Championship of Hammish football; its roster drew mostly on players from the region and included a national of Ashkenatza. The Judah Jaguars, formed later under Caputia, competed in the Premier Division of the Football Association of Caputia and drew players from the former Maccabi Judah. As of 1760 AN the city is represented by FC Chinchasuyu Judah, which has played in continental competition. The neighboring city of Ben Aliv fielded its own club, Hapoel Ben Aliv.
Notable people
- Carrie Fitzwater, jurist, drafter of the Caputian constitution and first Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in Israat
- Yoel Maccabi, philologist and founder of the Israati University of Judah, who died in the city
- Eric Heinhorn, footballer, born in Judah
- Walter Adjiman, footballer and manager, born in Judah
