Kingdom of Media

The Kingdom of Media, officially the Eumenid Kingdom of Media (Greek: 
Ευμενιδικό Βασίλειο του Μηδία, romanised: Evmenidikó Vasíleio tou Mēdía) is a Greek kingdom in West Asia. It was founded on WD146 in north-western Persia, around approximately modern-day Azerbaijan. It's capital, Laodikeia-in-Media, houses approximately 11 villagers.
The kingdom was founded by Basilissa Laodike I Selene, Daughter of Lagus, who with a group of loyal followers proclaimed herself Basilissa of Media in an old Roman border town. She personally built the capital of Laodikeia-In-Media, before leading multiple campaigns into the Median hinterland to subjugate the local tribes and build Macedonian colonist towns. After her death, a brief power struggle ensued which led to the enthronement of Eumenes I 'Soter', founder of the Eumenid Dynasty.
== Etymology ==
The name Media comes from the ancient inhabitants of the region, the Medes, a Persianate people who migrated to the region in prehistoric times. Their name was used as a general description for the northwestern portion of Persia, and it was this name the first ruler of the kingdom, Laodike I, used for her kingdom.
== History ==
=== Foundation ===
The Kingdom of Media was traditionally founded as a city state on WD146, with it's core centred on the grounds that would become Laodikeia-In-Media. This kingdom was founded by Laodike I Selene, who supposedly travelled to the region on the advice of an oracle in south-eastern Rhomania, who stated "The land here is barren, unable to support life anew. But the east! Land of exiles and princesses, orientalism and antiquity! Here, the land grows fertile, more fertile than the Nile, more fertile than the Twin Sisters of Mesopotamia! Here, you will find a chance to support life." Interpreting this as meaning the land of the Medes, Laodike gathered a band of the unwanted, the adventurous and the hopeful, setting east to conquer a new home.
Upon the group's arrival in Media, Laodike proclaimed herself Basilissa of the Kingdom of Media, to the acclaim of the people she had guided to a new life. Immediately, construction began on the capital of Laodikeia-In-Media, as the neighbouring Rhomaoi and Doveran cities left abandoned by their masters were subjugated into the growing kingdom. The capital was completed by WD156, allowing a central base for further expeditions to be sent into the Median hinterland, and by the death of Laodike I on WD176 the kingdom had grown to an impressive size, incorporating territories from the Canaanite Empire along the way. 
=== Wars of the Strategoi ===
While Laodike I had left the kingdom in an objectively stronger position than it had started with, her horrific case of homosexuality prevented a proper heir from being borne, aside from a four-year-old brother. When she died on WD176, a conflict now known as the Wars of the Strategoi began as her top generals - Eumenes 'Philmedos', Alexander of Ilion, Philxenos of Caria and Antiochus Xanthos - began fighting for the kingdom.
==== First War - Philxeniad War ====