Governorate of Siyachia

Seyatsha Fray Shtat (Governorate of Siyachia)
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Motto: Besser tsu shtarben shtai’endik aider tsu leben oif di kni.
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Capital	Nackholm
Largest city	Heyburgh
Official language(s)	Yehudi
Official religion(s)	Siyachism, Qara'ut
Demonym	Siyachi
- Adjective	Siyachim
Government	Theocracy
- Nāśī (Prince)	Adin ben Shmuel
- 'ha'kohen ha'gadol (High Priest)	Adin ben Shmuel
- Legislature
Establishment	1660
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Population	64,030
Currency	Erb
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National forum	TBE
National animal	Black Eagle (Yehudi)
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Abbreviation	SFS

A dependency of the Imperial Republic established in 1660 during the latter stages of the Benacian Reconquest.

Timeline

• 1543-1605 - Heartland of the Republic of Ashkenatza, a major world power, noted for its conflicts with Ocia (Amokolian War) and Babkha (Euran Cold War), which established a hegemony over southern and central Benacia.
• 1605 - An electromagnetic pulse of an unprecedented size for a "non-nuclear event" knocks out the Ashkenatzim capital, Kolmenitzkiy, throwing the metropolis and the surrounding region for miles around, into chaos. Ground-zero was triangulated to the Yabotinsky Fortress but the cause and exact nature of the event remains unknown.
• 1605-1638 - Warlord era. 33 years of chaos and violence grips the heartland of Ashkenatza following the sudden collapse of its government. Yehudi territories fall under the control of warring bands of Kossars, veterans of the Ashkenatzer Militerischer Kraft who had turned to a successful life of brigandage in the absence of any semblance of central authority or discipline.
• 1638 - "Jollification of the Kossars" sees Volhyria and Porolia invaded by Minarborian forces, leading to the establishment of the Shophate of Siyachia.
• 1640-1644 - "Harvestfall Revolution" sees Minarboria begin its abrupt decline.
• 1648 - Final collapse of Minarborian aligned regime in Siyachia.
• 1649 - Pachad Emet ben Mavet asserts control over what remains of "Nackolom".
• XI.1652–XIII.1652 - The Mavet regime in Siyachia is drawn into conflict with the Imperial Republic.
• 1656 - Batavian settlers, fleeing the War of Lost Brothers, enter the Inner Benacian Green. Skirmishes with Yehudi inhabitants ensue.
• 01.VIII–14.XI.1657 - 1st Battle of Nackholm (Operation Way of Force). Vengeful Shirerithian forces attempt to kill or capture Pachad ben Mavet, laying waste to Nackholm in the process.
• 19.VIII.1657 - The Kasterburg Republic occupies the southern half of Nackholm.
• 15.IX-25.IX.1657 - Battle of Stuyven between Batavian settlers and the Yehudi.
• 08.VIII.1659–06.XIII.1659 - Fall Schwartz-Tilman.
• 24.VIII.1659 - 2nd Battle of Nackholm.
• 22.XIII.1659 - August Baerdemans, and a small band of armed followers, enter the ruins of Nackholm and proclaim it the capital of the Transbatavian Free State.
• 22-29.XIII.1659 - Seven days and seven nights of air-raids on Nackholm by Bomber Command.
• 22.XV.1659 - Resolutions to protect Former Subjects in Inner Benacia and establish the Imperial Nackholm Observation Mission proposed by Imperial Mother in the Landsraad, supported by the N&H Party in Folksraad.
• 12.I.1660 - Recommendations by an international boundary commission favour Shirerithian proposals to occupy Nackholm.
• 14.II.1660 - Imperial Decree 1020 (Border Adjustment) & 1021 (Institutions in Siyacha) promulgated.
• 17.II.1660 - Fall Grunwald-Ulrich begins.
• 18.II.1660 - Adin ben Shmuel, a renegade Bergburger Kohen, is ordained as Prince and High Priest of Siyachia, under Imperial supervision, at a ceremony in recently occupied Heyburgh, where a Red Heifer was rendered unto Yahweh as a burnt offering with crimson dyed wool, hyssop, and cedar wood. The ashes were passed into the custody of the Prince as a symbol of his duty to conduct the purification of Nackholm.
• 1661–1662 - In response to the incorporation of Transbatavia into the emergent United Batavian States and the construction of the Batavergesp Railway offering a lifeline to the apartheid regime of the Voortrekkers in formerly Yehudi territories, regiments of Volhyrian Kossars are raised by patriotic associations throughout the Free State.
• 19.III.1663 - Imperial garrison in Siyacha scaled back to a single composite regiment of Auxiliaries and Marshals supporting the Imperial High Commission in Nackholm, in line with the new policy of deescalation towards Kalgachia.

Government

Military

Volhyrian Kossar Brigade
Active:	1662 AN – present
Allegiance:	Siyacha Free State
Personnel:	1,947
Type:	Local Defence Volunteers Gendarmerie Mountain / Wilderness Warfare
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Current Commander:	Gyeneralbrigade Meyer Hertz
Conflicts & Deployments

As a protectorate of the Imperial Republic responsibility for the defence and security of the Siyacha Free State rests with the Imperial Forces and Imperial Marshals garrisoned in the territory to support the High Commissioner's mission to the Free State. The Imperial Siyacha Regiment comprises of 1,200 Auxiliaries and 1,200 Marshals, backed by support vehicles and small arms.

The local contribution to the defence of the Free State comes in the form of the Volhyrian Kossar Brigade (VKB), formed from the remnants of various Yehudi-Siyachi fighting groups who were re-mobilised under Imperial supervision in order to secure the frontiers against smugglers and border raiders, as well as to call in air strikes on unwanted incursions of megafauna.

The VKB is notorious for combining Imperial weaponry, the semblance of Ashkenatzim ranks and uniforms, and an attitude towards the personal property of others that is entirely in keeping with the kossar tradition.