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| '''Estarisa''' (Cisamarrese: ''Azarea''; Hurmu: ''Azjareyja'') is an island and canton of [[Sanama]]. Its capital and main city is [[Whanitori]]. Administratively part of the [[Coastal Sanilla]] Region since 1672. Before that part of Shireroth, associated with Brookshire but with a distinct insular culture and government of its own. Population is 485,013 on an area of 3,576 square kilometres, giving the island a population density of c. 137 inhabitants per sq km.
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| [[Elwynn]]ese prince [[Daniel Kalirion]] was brought up on the island.
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| While the indigenous name of the island is ''Estarisa'' (the etymology of which is uncertain and debated), the island was prior to the Kalirion Fracture and the independence of Sanama most commonly known by its Cisamarrese name ''Azarea''. ''Azarea'' ultimately from the same root as the name of the similarly sized county of [[shire:Ž|Ž]], via Hurmu ''Azjareyja'' (rendered Azarea in Cisamarrese and Istvanistani). The Laqi noun of ''ž'', although not etymologically native to Laqi, roughly means “Modanian island”, originally representing a hieroglyph of special, but today lost, significance. That special glyph can often found among the Khaz-Modan ruins on Ž, Azarea and various other islands and coasts of Brookshire and Yardistan
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| The Hurmu name, ''Azjareyja'', can be divided into two parts, ''azjar'' and ''eyja''. The first part, ''azjar'', is the genitive of the Hurmu pronunciation of the Laqi word ''ž'', and ''eyja'' is a poetic form for “island”. It is related to the Crandish ''aujo'' (as in the [[Vaan Aujoen]]), also meaning “island”.
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