Saradin

Saradin (Vosteibian: Сарадин) officially the Saradin Governorate-General (Vosteibian: Генерал-губернаторство Сарадин; tr. General-gubernatorstvo Saradin; Saradic: ولاية صرادين-جنرال; tr. wilayat saradin-jniral) was a colony of the Vosteibian Empire. In March, 1883 Emperor and Tsar Lubomir IV announced the formation of the Imperial Qaran State in which he was crowned as the first Caliph, ruling as Caliph Aziz I.
==History==
The first recorded history of the Saradic tribes come from ancient Ierigian scholar and historian Sisenna Pullo Ripanus who wrote the Historia de tribuum as he studied the various tribes of "Saradin", believed to have been coined by Ripanus. Ripanus lists 5 major peoples and a dozen minor peoples spread throughout the area that he had mapped as "Saradin" which today is effectively the entire colony of Saradin. Ripanus noted that the Saradic people, as he called them, had many tribal distinctions similar to the Ierigian but in a more rudimentary form. Ripanus noted some cultural and geographical distinctions with the groups, giving rise to their relative areas of settlement in the modern era. Ripanus noted that the:
"Badi were prevalent through the majority of society, Urhec were believed to be "mountain dwellers" and believed to be a mystic, esoteric people. The Fudesh dared the harsh deserts that they feuded over with the Sobac and Sobac tribes in the cruel desert known as the "Burned Desert".
Overtime historians, including Saradic historians, had become less interested in tribal distinctions and became more interested in protecting themselves from foreigners and outsiders. Haamid el-Demian, an early Saradic historian noted that "...the preservation of the Saradic culture became a central tenet of the numerous tribes of Saradin." The Saradic peoples banded together and formed the "Kingdom of Saradin" prior the outbreak of a civil war in the late 1700s which tore the kingdom apart from numerous feudal-style warlords who vied for control after Grand Emir Taalib II (House of al-Kanan) died without any issue. It was shortly after that the Vosteibian Empire arrived and forced a tenuous peace with the numerous tribal and territorial warlords known as the "Treaty of Tel Ketra". Governor-General Lavr Tikhonovich Varennikov has been charged with keeping the peace in the colony which spans thousands of miles and is home to a people both divided by tribe but also united by common language, shared religion and love for their homeland.
==Culture and demographics==
*Saradic (Arab)
**Badi (Modern Arabs)
**Urhec (Syriac/Assyrian)
**Fudesh (Kurdish)
**Tarqoom (Bedouin)
**Sobac (North African Arabs)
Category:Colonies of the Vosteibian Empire