Haina

Aside from the Dulama Empire, Haina was one of the most powerful and also among the oldest states in the western half of the known world. Rulers of the southeastern tip of their peninsula, they expanded greatly, owing to a strong naval and merchantile presence on the Airendhe; this translated into a large number of colonies and conquests all around its shores. A royal marriage and alliance with a new, powerful state to their west, Trahana, secured their landward border and prompted a renewed period of maritime dominance, but would be broken by the Trahana late in their history, leading to the collapse of the Haina. Their head of state, the thag, was technically an elected monarch, but traditionally the heir to the previous thag was effectively unopposed.
Category:Historical Countries