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'''Samhold''' ("unity") is the northernmost territory of Hurmu. The island forms a [[States and districts of Hurmu|district]] and [[Municipalities of Hurmu|municipality]] of its own, and is located in the Arctic, with its northern coast being subjected to the permanent ice shelf, and its southern coast being mostly ice-free in winter. Samholdsøya is in the [[Coordinated Micras Time|CMT+3 time zone]] (same time zone as [[Hurmu]]'s [[Lake District]]).

Its population is 33,058, all of which have moved there since Hurmu acquired sovereignty of the island on 1.I.1710. Of these, 22,492 have migrated from the former [[District of the Warring Islands]] upon the latter's transfer of sovereignty from Hurmu to the [[Benacian Union]]. The culture of Samhald is thus dominated by the Hurmu-influenced Nova English culture. The rest of the population are from the rest of Hurmu, mainly through contractors or the [[Hurmu Peace Corps]] or the [[Hurmu Constabulary]].

== Name ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Language !! "Unity" !! "Unity Island" !! "District and Municipality of Unity Island"
|-
| Alexandrian || L'Unité || Ile de l'Unité || District et commune de l'Ile de l'Unité
|-
| Army Crandish || Samhåll || Samhållsön || Samhållsöns distrikt och kommun
|-
| Blue Lontinian || Ev Negdel || Ev Negdliin Aral || Ev negdliin arlyn düüreg ba khotyn zakhirgaa
|-
| Elw || Adaacuzusyr || Qeqerdar Adaacuzusyr || 
|-
| Krasnocorian (Cyrillic) ||  ||  || 
|-
| Krasnocorian (Latin) ||  ||  || 
|-
| Lakkvian || Ühtsus || Ühtsuse saar || Ühtsuse saare piirkond ja vald
|-
| Norse (Amalandic) || Samhald || Samhaldsøen || Distriktet og kommunen på Samhaldsøen
|-
| Norse (Hurmu) || Samhald || Samhaldsoya || Samhaldsoyarinnar allmenningaomraaðe
|-
| Norse (Normark) || Samhold || Samholdsøya || Distriktet og kommunen på Samholdsøya
|-
| Nova English || Samheald || Samhealdes Eáland || Fylc and Burgscipe of Samhealdes Eálandes
|-
| White Lontinian || Birlik || Birlik Aralı || Birlik aralınıñ awdanı jäne mwnïcïpalïteti
|}

==History== 

First begun in 1693, in the middle of the [[Second Elwynnese Civil War]], the establishment of a garrison on Samholdsøya was charged by [[Keltia Command]], with the support of the civilian government in [[Elijah's Rest]], to facilitate operations to restore the [[Boreal Air Bridge]] connecting [[Normark]], [[Jääland]] and [[Hurmu]] to [[Eliria]], following the severance of those channels by the rebellion which had commenced in the preceding year. 

[[File:Samholdsoya Boreal Air Bridge.gif|200px|thumb|right|The [[Boreal Air Bridge]] with planned routes prior to the Elwynnese occupation of Samholdsøya. The island is shown encircled, and was widely known within the Elwynnese government as "Circle Island" (due to the way the island was identified on the map) prior to its official naming ]]

The Elwynnese and Norse flags were planted on the island on 9.IX.1693, to the fanfare of a frostbitten, and depressed population gathered together by the arriving UDF detachment. The small indigenous population had been under Storish and Vanic subjugation from 1543 to 1685. The incoming garrison gave the island the name ''Unity'' as a symbol of their intent to restore the Greater Elwynnese Realm. 

The main garrison was established around a defensible ice-free anchorage, and bestowed the name '''Samhold''' (Norse for "Unity"), as all existing settlements on the island were considered sub-par, having been left without maintenance and electricity for 7 years. An aerodrome was built on the island's southern peninsular and became operational during {{AN|1695}}.

The island was garrisoned, indeed largely populated, by personnel tasked with its defence. The UDF's lead formation on the island being the 1<sup>st</sup> Regiment, 3<sup>rd</sup> Brigade of the 81<sup>st</sup> {{tooltip|Landsfördelning|Territorial Division}}, a formation specialising in [[wikipedia:Arctic warfare|boreal operations]]. The deployment is supported by a further 1,200-strong detachment from the Union Aerospace Corps, a 120-man detachment from the {{tooltip|Elwmarine|Naval Auxiliary Service}}, and a 40-man troop from the 17<sup>th</sup> Logistics Division. 

Following the independence of [[Normark]] the island remained under the sovereignty of the [[Benacian Union]], the successor to [[Elluenuueq]], however it seemed that this fact remained obscured from the [[High Presidium of the Benacian Union]] in [[Chryse]], which made no provision for the continued governance of the place.  

By administrative oversight the garrison came to be forgotten following the reorganisation of the UDF into the [[Benacian Union Defence Force]] in {{AN|1703}}. Without regular reinforcement, rations, nor pay, the garrison troops endured until late {{AN|1706}} when, finally despairing of ever being relieved from their dismal posting, the survivors mutinied and slaughtered their officers. Thereafter, having burnt the structures of the island after raping, murdering, and cannibalising the small remnant native community, the mutineers - some eight-hundred and forty men in total - pledged themselves to form the United Free Company. Placing themselves aboard the single icebreaker and the provisioning boat which had been their sole means of trading with the settlements of the [[Hexarchy]], the United Free Company departed the island to begin their new lives, to be spent plundering the settlements of the north-west [[Keltia]]n [[the Green|Green]].

The brief period of abandonment ended in late {{AN|1707}} with the arrival of a cohort-strength detachment of the [[ESB-Holïurs-Afzælt]] tasked with restoring the abandoned runways and harbour facilities in the wake of the [[The Troubles|demise]] of [[Jaaland]] in that same year. This contingent was further reinforced by a party of forty field engineers from the [[Nordhær]] and working parties, each one-hundred and twenty men strong, from the [[ESB Reclamation Services (Keltia)]] and the [[ESB Voluntary Labour Organisation (Keltia)]] tasked with the actual work of rebuilding.

==Politics and governance==
===Garrison===

From 1707 onwards the island was garrisoned by the 1<sup>st</sup> Airport Security Cohort. This contingent was deployed to the island under the command of Arthur Kempner, on behalf of the [[Boreal Air Bridge]] Support Services echelon of the [[ESB-Holïurs-Afzælt]], supported until 1709 by forty [[Nordhær]] field engineers and two hundred-and-forty construction workers. The two runways of the Varja F1. Flyflottilj airbase (lengths 2,590 m and 1,525 m respectively) would, if operational, facilitate the linkage of [[Hurmu]], [[Jaaland]], and [[Elijah's Rest]].

From 1710 the contractors deployed to the island will be in the employ of the [[Hurmu Peace Corps]].

== Sovereign powers ==
*1470–1483: [[Varja]] (for a while, Varja, including Samhold, was also under Baracãoan and Free Republic sovereignty)
*1483–1487: The Green
*1487–1489: Korhal
*1489–1450: The Green
*1490–1514: [[Karnali]] (island bore the name of Vethadipa)
*1514–1529: The Green
*1529–1543: [[Durntkinstan]] (then commonly called Jericho after its main city)
*1543–1543: The Green
*1543–1685: [[Stormark]] (island known as Quercy)
*1685–1693: The Green
*1693–1703: [[Elwynn]] ([[Normark]])
*1703–1706: Rump [[Elwynn]] ([[Normark]])
*1706–1709: [[Benacian Union]]
*1710–''pres'': [[Hurmu]] (projected)

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[[Category:Normark]]
[[Category:Elwynn]]