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{{Infobox former subdivision
| name = Israat
| official_name = Region of Israat
| settlement_type = Region of [[Hamland]]
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[Hamland]]
| seat_type = Cities
| seat = [[Judah]] and [[Ben Aliv]]
| established_title = Origins
| established_date = Pre-documentary
| extinct_title = Merged into [[Anglia & Israat]]
| extinct_date = {{AN|1653}}
| p1 = Commonwealth of Hamland
| s1 = Anglia & Israat
| s2 = Wechua Nation
| blank_name_sec1 = People
| blank_info_sec1 = [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]]-descended Israati
| blank_name_sec2 = Religion
| blank_info_sec2 = [[Judahite rite]]
| blank_name_sec3 = Languages
| blank_info_sec3 = Common Tongue, Haifan
}}

'''Israat''' was a region of eastern [[Hamland]] and the homeland of the Israati, a people of [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]] descent.<ref name="ham">''[[Hamland]]''.</ref><ref name="judah">''[[Judah]]''.</ref> It was the older territory of the eastern marches, settled before the neighboring region of [[Anglia]], and the native ground of the [[Judahite rite]], the Yehudi-tradition confession whose cultic lamp stood at [[Ben Aliv]] and whose court sat at [[Judah]], the two cities of the region.<ref name="rite">''[[Judahite rite]]''.</ref>

Under the [[Commonwealth of Hamland]], Israat was administered as one of the Hammish regions, its senior court at Judah.<ref name="ham" /> On the founding of the [[Caputia|Kingdom of the Union of Caputia]], it was joined with Anglia to its west as the state of [[Anglia & Israat]], governed from Judah. On that kingdom's dissolution on 30.XV.{{AN|1668}}, its territory lay unclaimed for a time before it was drawn into the [[Wechua Nation]], within which its cities lie as of {{AN|1760}}.<ref name="ai">''[[Anglia & Israat]]''.</ref><ref name="judah" />

Israat outlived its own administration as a name of descent. The rite native to it did not outlast Caputia, and no region called Israat exists under [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. Yet the Israati persisted as a recognized people: they were counted at the census of the Caputian diaspora republic of [[Saint Salvation]], and former Caputians of Israati descent were mustered by that name into the [[Israati-Haifan Defense Force]] and a Constancian foreign brigade two generations after the region was gone.<ref name="rite" /><ref name="ihdf">''[[Israati-Haifan Defense Force]]''.</ref>

== The Israati ==
The people of Israat were the Israati, of [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]] descent and the older population of the eastern marches, established in the region before the Hamlanders settled the land toward the river.<ref name="judah" /> Descent and confession were not the same thing. The [[Judahite rite]] was the confession native to the Israati, but they were reckoned a people, and a count of the Israati was never a count of the rite; the descent was set down where the confession was not.<ref name="rite" />

The region shared a Hebraic naming register with its city of [[Judah]] and with [[Hammish Haifa|Haifa]], and the liturgy and reckoning of the rite were kept in Haifan, a language whose roots run on three consonants; the name Israat itself belonged to that register, though the Israati sources fix no meaning for it.<ref name="rite" /> The names outlasted the worship. They descended in the households after the rite was gone and reached even into the Caputian royal house, where they gave Judith Ravaillac her name; the same register named the towns the Israati settlers founded on the shores of [[Lake Morovia]].<ref name="judah" /><ref name="haifa">''[[Free State of Haifa]]''.</ref>

== Geography ==
Israat lay in the eastern marches of [[Hamland]], among the easternmost of the Hammish regions, with [[Anglia]] to its west.<ref name="ham" /> Its two cities were [[Judah]], the administratively senior city and the seat of the rite's court, and [[Ben Aliv]], the older city and the seat of the cult; the two together formed the historical core of the region.<ref name="judah" /> Beyond them lay the rural districts of the interior, from which the rite drew its more austere congregations and, in the years of the civil war, the [[Israat Loyalists]].<ref name="rite" />

== History ==
The recorded history of Israat runs through the sovereignties of its territory: the Israati cities of the eastern marches, the region under the Kingdom and [[Commonwealth of Hamland]], the Caputian state of [[Anglia & Israat]] into which it was joined, and the [[Wechua Nation]] into which its cities were at last drawn.<ref name="judah" />

=== The eastern marches ===
Israat was the original territory of the eastern marches of Hamland. The tradition of the [[Judahite rite]] holds that the Israati and their standing lamp at [[Ben Aliv]] were established in the region before the Hamlanders reached it, while a rival account, advanced by Yerenist and Benacian writers alike, holds that the Israati had come as migrants from [[Benacia]]; historians of Hamland have not arbitrated between the two.<ref name="rite" /> On either account the region took its character from the Israati, and its two cities from their rite.<ref name="judah" />

=== Region of Hamland ===
Under the Kingdom and later the [[Commonwealth of Hamland]], Israat was administered as one of the Hammish regions, ranked among the provinces styled "Region of" under the [[Standarization of subdivision of Hammish lands]].<ref name="ham" /> Its senior court sat at [[Judah]], where advocates of the Israati community trained before the local Beth Din ahead of their admission to the civil bar. The best known of them was [[Carrie Fitzwater]], born in Israat, who drafted the constitution of [[Caputia]] and became its first Chancellor of the Exchequer.<ref name="judah" /><ref name="fitz">''[[Carrie Fitzwater]]''.</ref>

=== The Hammish Civil War ===
The collapse of the Commonwealth brought civil war to the eastern marches, and Israat was contested ground through it. The disturbances in Israat were settled by mediation under the interim premier [[Donat Ravaillac]], whereas the unrest in the Haifan lands was not.<ref name="rite" /> 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.<ref name="judah" /><ref name="nsf">''[[National Salvation Front]]''.</ref> The [[Alexandrian Flu]] of {{AN|1650}} to {{AN|1652}}, which killed between thirty and sixty percent of the population of the eastern Commonwealth, fell heavily on the Israati, and the rota of the lamp at Ben Aliv records the dying in the shortening of its rolls.<ref name="rite" />

=== The Caputian state of Anglia & Israat ===
Out of the collapse of Hamland arose the [[Caputia|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, one of the ten states into which the kingdom was first divided. At the founding census of {{AN|1657}}, the state numbered 8,255,923 inhabitants.<ref name="ai" /> 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.<ref name="judah" />

=== Passage to the Wechua Nation ===
Caputia was dissolved on 30.XV.{{AN|1668}}, and with the kingdom the Judahite rite ended as an organized body.<ref name="rite" /> The territory of Israat lay unclaimed for a time, and then the [[Wechua Nation]], expanding eastward after the [[The Great Restoration (Wechua Nation)|Great Restoration]] of {{AN|1673}}, drew in its cities; when the Wechua Nation joined with [[Alduria]] to form the federation that became [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], they passed with it.<ref name="judah" /><ref name="wechua">''[[Wechua Nation]]''.</ref> No region called Israat exists under the Federation. Its cities [[Judah]] and [[Ben Aliv]] lie within the [[Wechua Nation]], where the [[Faith of Inti]] is established and the [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]]-descended inhabitants fall within the residual category of the regional census.<ref name="judah" />

== Religion ==
{{Main|Judahite rite}}
The confession native to Israat was the [[Judahite rite]], the eastern form of the [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]] tradition. Its distinctive institution was a standing lamp of twelve mouths kept at [[Ben Aliv]], fed in unbroken rotation by the households of the town and never carried or divided. The reckoning, the court at [[Judah]] that computed the rite's calendar against the [[Norton calendar]], governed its year, and the rite took its name from the court, not the lamp.<ref name="rite" />

The rite did not survive the region's absorption. Some of its adherents had already left the region, keeping the reckoning without the lamp, and those who stayed became the rural congregations of the interior; the confession ended with the fall of Caputia.<ref name="rite" /> Its literature, the Israati collections gathered at Judah and Ben Aliv, was lost, and survives chiefly in the polemics the neighboring [[Yerenism|Yereni Church]] wrote against it.<ref name="rite" />

== Diaspora and descent ==
Israat's descent proved more durable than the confession that had defined it. Its first branch was the going out: the Israati families who had left for [[Lake Morovia]] became, with the groups already settled there, the founding population of the [[Free State of Haifa]], and were remembered as the lampless.<ref name="judah" /><ref name="haifa" /> The emigrants carried the region's customs, its food, and its sport out with them, so that the culture of Israat outlived Israat on the lake shore.<ref name="haifa" /> Among the survivals were the names of its football clubs, [[Maccabi Judah]] and [[Hapoel Ben Aliv]], which kept a vocabulary of the rite on both sides of the going out.<ref name="rite" />

The name was carried even by those outside the confession. The Caputian diaspora republic of [[Saint Salvation]] counted ''Israati'' among the seven groups of its census of {{AN|1724}}, two generations after the rite had ended.<ref name="rite" /> In {{AN|1716}} [[Nouvelle Alexandrie|New Alexandrian]] citizens who were former Caputians of Israati and Haifan descent raised the [[Israati-Haifan Defense Force]], recruited as Haifans and Israatis together by the two names the region's settlement streams had carried.<ref name="ihdf" /> Five years later the Constancian Foreign Legion formed its "Barak" Brigade, under a Hebraic name, from exile families of Israati-Haifan extraction.<ref name="icaf">''[[Imperial Constancian Armed Forces]]''.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Judahite rite]]
* [[Anglia & Israat]]
* [[Judah]]
* [[Ben Aliv]]
* [[Free State of Haifa]]
* [[Hamland]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Hamland]]
[[Category:Caputia]]

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