Ilahr

Ilahr is a Parsanian settlement in southern Kath dominated by a famous fortress, the Snake's Nest.
Ilahr was founded by a mixture of Parsanians, Kajas, Barcunians and Mustanians in the 600's BCE. It was a major waypoint for the Mustanians and Barcunians during their migration west, and by the 400's BCE was inhabited by around thirty thousand people.
The town fell into decline once the peoples of the Halcyonian Flotilla were settled. Disaster struck in 257BCE when the wells supplying the town dried up, and by 255BCE Ilahr had been deserted entirely.
With the rise of the Vardanid Empire in the late 200's BCE, Ilahr became a strategic location once again, given its central location between Semnah, Rayneh and Rustif - three important but unfortified settlements. The Shahanshahs settled Ilahr as a fortress, knocking down the central portion of the abandoned town and building The Snake's Nest.
Ilahr was steady from here, with around eight thousand inhabitants including the garrison of one thousand. The town was governed by a Nakhda, a military official ranked below a Masshah but above a Sotvarn. Over time, the Nakhda of Ilahr became a hereditary position functioning similarly to a Sheikh. The Nakhda deferred to the Farmandar of Semnah.
During the Vardano-Reman Religious Wars, Ilahr was occupied by the Legio de Nemus after the Siege of the Snake's Nest, an event that stretched out over three years and involved the forces of no less than four Reman legions. That the siege continued for so long without interruption by any outside forces is a miracle in and of itself, and the length of the Nakhda's defence gave the Snake's Nest its fame.
Following the siege, the Legio de Nemus occupied Ilahr from 650 to 661, when the Farmandar of Rayneh ousted the legion during the Second Siege of the Snake's Nest. The Farmandar recognised the strategic importance of Ilahr and made the fortress the southern border of his new country of Kath.
Category:Settlements
Category:Kath
Category:Vardanids