Hurva (region)

Hurva is an arable region in the south of Harä, and previously part of the ex-Tungrid state Barzal. The region is governed from Zinthur, and the only other towns in Hurva are Baragsel and Serdon.
Hurva has been sparsely inhabited since the 2nd Century by a mixture of Kafetrans and Vadyans, living in semi-permanent farming settlements near the Hurva and Astarciy rivers which were periodically abandoned when their priests divined bad signs from the fire gods, or when the rivers flooded.
These settlements stayed untouched by the outside world until the Great Gap. After the Gap, the inhabitants of Hurva had united to form the country of Sernuria, a theocracy based in the new city of Zinthur. This country worshipped the gods of fire and water, vestiges of both the Vadyan practice of worshipping fire and the civilisation's dependency on rivers.
The Sernurian civilisation fell into decline in the late 5th Century - the sacrificial nature of their religion took a toll on the size of the population and by 485 the city of Zinthur was abandoned and Sernuria fell apart. 
Twenty years later, the Tungrid Migration led the Tungrids into the region. Though the majority settled on the western bank of the Hurva River and the plains beyond, several subtribes took Hurva as their home. On the death of Adagan Khan, his second son Behnam took control of the region to form the Khanate of Barzal.
Barzal lasted six years before falling in the Tungrid Wars, at which point the region became part of Harä. In 535, the Duke of Harä ordered Zinthur to be resettled and placed his son in charge of the region. Since then the region has stabilised and, besides the Harnese program to "re-educate" the Tungrid population to wipe out their culture in the country, Hurva has remained more or less the same over the last two hundred years.
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