Governorate of Siyachia

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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 (de jure)
Heyburgh (de facto, 1660)
Largest city
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
Area
Population 64,030
Currency Erb
Calendar
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Mains electricity
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National website
National forum TBE
National animal Black Eagle (Yehudi)
National food
National drink
National tree
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.