Illiathis

A city in the northwestern Syloz Safali, located on the island of Illiad in the Nemaari Island group, Illiathis is the seat of the Nemaari Pasharate, ruled by Pynto Neharis. The city was founded as a Maracacan colony around 400 years before our time and it already had grown to become an important port of the Empire around the 6th century. It grew further during Urubuhl expansion into the Albaan Region of Magnia in the 11th century, when Illiathis became the naval seat managing the empire's overseas holdings. Eventually, it fell under the dominion of the emerging Sylozi state, where it continued to prosper as an important trade hub. 
Illiathis is situated within a small bay and nestled between two hills, which historically made it the best natural harbour anywhere on the Sylozi coast, until the increasing size of ships required anchorage to be made further and further from shore. Gradually, the city lost some naval trade to ports like Otezza. Extending inland from the bay, gradually rising between the two hills, Illiathis looks somewhat like a massive crescent-shaped amphitheatre, with the commercial district in the middle, while residential areas rise to either side. 
In the centre of the commercial district lie the tomb of Illiad, a legendary warrior woman said to have been over 3 meters tall, a protector of the city said to have been buried there by her lover, who went on establish the city's harbour. Thousands of travellers visit her giant skeleton yearly.
== Economy ==
Illiathis remains an important trade hub, located on the naval route from Syloz Safali to Magnia, the most prominent cross-continental trade route in the Western Skahazadans, as well as the Sylozi trade route to the sub-eunisian lands of the far south. It is also the worlds biggest exporter of pearls and coral.