Ashkenatza
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| Official language | Yiddish, Ladino, Tellian, Alkhivan-Babkhi |
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| Capital | Kolmenitzkiy |
| Largest cities | Benaciastadt, Romersk, Mazeltov, Klymenburg |
| Website | www.ashkenatza.net |
| Forum | www.ashkenatza.net |
| Number of citizens | 11 |
| Number of active citizens | 6 (As of August 2010) |
| Date founded | August 2008 |
| Government | Parliamentary Democracy |
| Current leader | 9th Nohsi of Ashkenatza, Bartholomeo Henzelli |
| Currency | Ashkenatzi Shekl |
| National animal | Bear (unoffically - "Gustavus the prayer bear") |
| National fruit/food | Apple |
| National drink | Schnapps |
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| Map versions | 13.6.4 - Present |
The Republic of Ashkenatza was founded by Maksym Izaak Rozenthal and Hesham Jandahar in August 2008 as an experiment in creating a Secular Jewish micronation along Yiddish and Ashkenazi Culture. It was felt an overt name such as Ashkenatza would help stress the essentially Eastern European flavour of the nation, thereby alleviating any impression of an Israeli micronation Ashkenatza would cause. Founded after a period of Edwards' inactivity in Shireroth and the death of his young socialist micronation, the Kazari People's Republic, Ashkenatza was quickly joined by the remaining old guard of the former Zatriarchate of Matbaa, and developed rapidly- its existence only being released to the Micronational Community at large after the Constitution of 2008 was ratified and a Government formed. Today, Ashkenatza remains a prime example of Edwards' natural aptitude with cultural simulationalism, and is clearly one of the more influential powers on the Benecian continent.
History
Ashkenatza's appearance on the micronational stage in August 2008 was during a time of great confusion for the Anglophone Micronational community- the death of Lovely, the Grand Commonwealth, the MCS-GSO divide and the imminent closure of the Micronational News Network MNN made it very difficult to recruit new citizens, leaving Ashkenatza's citizen base a very particular one, mainly old Matbaics and Babkhans. Ashkenatza's first intermicronational step was claiming land on Benacia, immediately drawing its foreign relations closer to Shireroth, and balancing the Ashkenatzi-Babkhan closeness which had been forming. Babkhan economic and military support to Ashkenatza was highly important, as was contact with Ashkenatza's neighbour Tellia, who shared similar concerns about possible Amokolian belligerence to the North. There had, however, been disagreements with Tellia regarding land expansions, and although Tellia eventually capitulated to Ashkenatzi ownership over the Southern Litovina area, Ashkenatza guaranteed the constitutional rights of ethnic Tellian citizens living there.
Almost immediately, after the threat of war became very real, the Central Benacian Relations Conference, overseen by Shireroth and held in Romero, the capital of Tellia, agreed on a peaceful land expansion to share unclaimed inner Benacia, which allowed expansions for Amokolia, Ashkenatza, Tellia, and Ashkenatza's friendly western neighbour, Batavia. Still, the threat of war lingered and Tellia and Ashkenatza remained militarily very close, supported by Babkha- with whom, however, alliance negotiations were not incredibly successful- and the interventionist foreign policy pursued by Rozenthal, coupled with aggressive military buildup ensured Ashkenatza gained a 'causus belli' on any nation mistreating its Jewish citizens. How the widening rift between monarchist and socialist micronations in the Micras Sector will affect Ashkenatzi politics remains to be seen, but the tenuous coalition of the socialist Bundist Party and social liberal Dray Bagrif Partei under the leadership of Nohsi Laz Krakowski steered an easy goi
