Mordvania

Official languages		Mordvanian, Bunesgan, Kaljuran, Ashkuban
Ethnic groups		Mordvanian, Bunesgan, Ashkuban, Kaljuran, others
Legislature		Republican Parliament

Mordvania (Mordvanian: Mordvanija), officially the Republic of Mordvania (Republika Mordvanija), is a country in Eastern Brigidna, bordered by Kaljurand to the west. The total area of Mordvania is 397,660 square kilometres, making it the 30th largest country in the world and the 7th largest in Brigidna. With a population of over 64.7 million people, Mordvania is the 30th most populous country in the world and the 7th most poulous country in Brigidna, as well as the 3rd most populous nation with a Vostic ethnic majority. The Republic of Mordvania is an unitary state divided into 33 administrative departments.

History

Pre-modern history

The territory of today Republic of Mordvania was not organized under an unitary state until recent modern times. At the beginning of the 5th century, most of the territory was divided into five states: the Kingdom of Bunesga, the Pendurasian Commonwealth, the Kingdom of Osrednia, and the republics of Severwojek and Visnja, along many tiny principalities and city-states. The Kingdom of Osrednia and the Pendurasian Commonwealth had been the largest states since the 2nd century, but the later entered in a period of decadence that century. After the Western War (621-632), which would involve the Pendurasian Commonwealth against the Kingdom of Bunesga along Gehinic armies, the Commonwealth would lose more than half of its territory. The Treaty of Ukmaunas (632) would also see the creation of the Grand-Duchy of Nordënland. The Grand-Duchy would be ruled by the Greuthen house, a Geinic noble family, and their lands reinforced with Oslanburgian and Alstarian settlers.

During the 7th century, the Kingdom of Bunesgan tried to expand toward the east, being almost constantly at war with the Mordvanian states, while the Grand-Duchy increased their territories along the northern coast. In 828, the coastal city of Fürstenstadt (today Mestarka), would be founded. The next year, the Kingdom of Osrednia would annex the Republic of Visnja. In 851, Grand-Duke Atharik von Greuthen would proclaim the Principality of Fürstenstadt, which became a sovereign state. Prince Atharik would still rely on the military support of the Arch-Kingdom of Oslanburg and other Geinic monarchies.

In 884, the Pendusarian Commonwealth -the only constitutional government in Bunesgan history- ceased to exist, when its territory was partitioned among the Kingdom of Bunesga, the Kingdom of Osrednia, and the Principality of Fürstenstadt. In 898, the Republic of Severowojek would be broken up into many principalities and city-states, following a nine-year war against the Kingdom of Osrednia. On Marth 902, King Bogdan, the ruler of Osrednia, would proclaim himself "King of all Mordvanians", and renaming his kingdom as "Kingdom of Mordvania". King Bogdan continued to expand his lands toward the north until his death, in early 920.

During the 10th century, the Kingdom of Mordvania and the Kingdom of Bunesgan fought in several long wars which would have a deep financial and social cost, as more than 15 million subjects of both kingdoms died. In late 10th century, the Kingdom of Mordvania suffered another conflict against the Kingdom of Biyra and the Principality of Fürstendstadt during the Northern War (1177-1184). Not prepared for naval warfare, the Kingdom of Mordvania lost most of its possessions in the northern coast and the eastern archipelago between Biyra and Mordvania. The war also resulted in an almost monopoly for the Principality of Fürstenstadt of the commerce in the northern post, strengthening its position.

The creation of the Kingdom of Abdania

The Second Bunesgan-Mordvanian War (1222-1240) left the Kingdom of Bunesgan exhausted and bankrupted. Prince Elvald married an Oslanburgan princess, strengthening the alliance between both states. Prince Elvard followed a policy of cultural unity and assimilation, which resulted in the consolidation of Abdanian language. Although Laurentian had been traditionally used in Fürstendstadt's court, Prince Elvard enforced the use of Abdanian language, promoting the language through education campaigns and banning the use of any other language in official communications. Prince Elvard also supported Kaljurand during the Kaljurand-Bunesgan War, which allowed Fürstendsadt to seize and annex the region around Ukmaunas, which was renamed as Ukmerberg. In 1279, Prince Elvard, with the support of many Geinic states, proclaimed the Kingdom of Abdania, with himself as King.

Peace did not last, though, and the Abdanian-Bunesgan war started in 1289. The war, which ended with the Treaty of Katzberg (1314), resulted in the disintegration of the Kingdom of Bunesga, and the Bunesgan royal family fled into exile to Biyra.

Before the 13th century, the Sentric Church was the official religion in the kingdoms and states of the Mordvanian basin, and the Abdanian monarchy had persecuted the Avalsyanist doctrine in its territory. This, however, changed when Prince Elvard married Princess Josephine Hansen, a member of the Oslan royal family, further strenghtening the alliance between Oslanburg and the Abdanian monarchy. As consequence, religious tolerance was allowed, and most of the Abdanian nobility converted to Daienism. In 1316, King Konrad I proclaimed Daienism as the official religion of the state, and enforced conversion was adopted as state policy. The policy of religious tolerance was ended, and Sentric churches were forced to adopt Daienism or be seized by the local authorities. Historians believe that this was likely motivated by the fact hat King Konrad I feared the Sentric Church as a political threat to his power, and he was looking for religious legitimacy in his war campaings against Mordvanians and eastern Vostic states. In 1324, there was a Sentric revolt in southern Abdania, mostly by Ashkuban and Mordvanian peasants, which was defeated only after a bloodthirsty military campaign.

The Kingdom of Abdania and Mordvania

In 1328, Mordvanian King Bogdan II died, only a few months after naming his son Rajko as his successor. This decision was contrary to the dominant tradition in the Kingdom of Osrednia (later Mordvania) to have the eldest surviving member of the ruling family succeed the incumbent. By ancestral right, Prince Bronislav, Bogdan's brother, should have claimed the throne, but Bogdan II chose his first-born son to be his successor instead, aiming to establish a dinasty. Bronislav did not relinquish his ancestral rights without fight. After Bogdan's death in Quartyr 1328, Bronislav took up arms, and many subjects in the kingdom joined him. The rebels claimed to represent the old political order, feudal rights, and national independence. The conflict between Bogdan and his uncle erupted in a long civil war.

Most of the Mordvanian nobility had took Bronislav's side, fearing that the newly established dinasty would weaken the influence and power of the nobility and further strengthen royal power. Bogdan was forced to flee Slawowo, the capital city of the Kingdom of Mordvania. Bogdan converted to Daienism and found support in the Kingdom of Abdania, starting the Forty-year War (1328-1365). In 1334, Bogdan married Ealdgyda, the youngest daughter of the Abdanian King. Bronislav died in 1337, and ironically he was succeed by his elder son, Miroslav. Miroslav would died in 1348, succeeded by Bozidar Mastek, a military leader and noblemen, who was the first Mordvanian king outside the Kastenek family. Bozidar, however, would be murdered in 1352, and his nephew Rajko succeeded, who proved to be an incompetent ruler controlled by prominent members of the nobility. After a decisive battle nearby Opoblina in 1361, mostly of the Mordvanian army was destroyed. Bogdan, however, would die two years later. Rajko would be betrayed by a group of Mordvanian nobles who were willing to make peace with the Kingdom of Abdania, and he was deposed and executed in 1564. A few months later, the Mordvanian Army officially surrender and was dissolved under the Treaty of Amberg (1365).

Many members of the Mordvanian nobility were either executed or fled to exile, and their lands were granted to Abdanian nobles, mostly members of the Abdanian Army who had fought in the war. Other members of the Mordvanian nobility were allowed to keep their lands and most of their feudal rights, in exchange for a pledge of loyalty to the Abdanian King Atharik the Wise I. The Treaty of Paviemes (1369) established a dual monarchy, which divided the territory into the Kingdoms of Abdania and Mordvania. The Kingdom of Mordvania was granted a parliament, formed by members of the Mordvanian nobility, and a national government which would have autonomy and the right to approve its own laws. The monarch of both kingdoms would be a member of the Abdanian Greuthen-Hansen dinasty. However, in practice Mordvanian autonomy was harshly limited, as the monarch had veto rights and appointed directly the government, and therefore the eastern Kingdom of Mordvanian remained ruled by officials loyals to the Abdanian monarch, and it lacked armed forces of their own. It had been established the Kingdom of Abdania and Mordvania, which would last until 1567.

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