Vas

Vas is a small kingdom, part of the Sacred Coalition's Northern Wing. It is governed from Cydarmus, and through the last hundred years its ruling family has inherited the towns of Diaretus and Lentie. Several decades ago, King Gerontian launched the Vasian Invasion of East Stresh, capturing the town of Marthus before its larger neighbour Prai Stresh finished off the victim country of Stresh.
== History ==
Vas began in the 5th Century as a Reman region of semi-autonomy centred around the city of Cydarmus. This province of Vasia sought self-governance after the Bread Riots caused the local populace to lose faith in the Reman government's ability to provide them with food.
The region slowly reined in more autonomy until, by the time of the Vardano-Reman Religious Wars two centuries later, Vasia was all but independent. It paid homage to the consuls, received food and other items from the Republic, and supplied the army with soldiers, but otherwise was fully self-governing.
The province of Vasia was governed by a Reman Praeses, locally referred to as the King of Vas.The King was voted in, and there were, importantly, no restrictions on who could run. Foreigners very often ran for the Kingship, and often were elected.
During the aforementioned Religious Wars, Vasia remained untouched by riots and invaders. King Freidrich von Eindfelt was the one to formally secede from the Reman Republic in 660. Vasia threw off its Reman shackles and became the new Kingdom of Vas. 
Almost immediately Vas was attacked by the splinter states at its borders - the Cudumbian state of Stresh invaded and took Marthus and Panettus during the Vasian-Streshi War of 664. With this, Vas was reduced to a city-state - King Freidrich was humiliated, and was forced to declare the Kingdom defunct. It became the short-lived Free City of Cydarmus. 
King Herias of Vas managed to inherit the towns of Diaretus and Lentie from the southern Kingdom of Tarsza after the death of its King in 714. With the acquisition of these settlements, the state was no longer a free city but a Kingdom onnce more; Herias reinstated the Kingdom of Vas in 717, when he was sure he would retain his new holdings. He integrated these settlements well, and passed the baton to his son Gerontian in 721. 
King Gerontian was not as patient and peaceful as his father. In 738 he took back Marthus from Stresh, putting the Kingdom of Vas in its current state.
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List of monarchs of VasCategory:Countries