United Republic of Adal

The United Republic of Adal is a fictional country featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.
The United Republic of Adal's capital, Al Mazrah, served as the primary map for Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and its DMZ mode prior to being replaced with Urzikstan following the release of Season One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. Segments of Al Mazrah appear again in Operation Deadbolt in Modern Warfare III as part of the Dark Aether Rifts.
==Geography==
The United Republic of Adal is a country located in the Caucasus Region in , whose primary language is Arabic, connected to the seas via the Black Sea, at its southernmost location where the capital city Al Mazrah can be found surrounded by small villages. Adal borders the Russian Federation to the north and Urzikstan to the east, south, and southwest. The climate of Adal is mostly arid with rivers, marshlands, and a few oases allowing vegetation to grow.
Being a coastal country, Adal is affected by the sea level rise due to with the Sawah village located to the south of Al Mazrah now being underwater.
==History==
Not much is known about the early history of Adal, other than the region was part of one of the first . During the , French and Italian settlers arrived in Adal following the and not long after began to settle in the region building a fortress on an island near the shore of Al Mazrah.
However, by the end of the 15th century, many settlers returned to Europe as the expansion of the rapidly grew. The Normans lost much of their control over Adal, with increased attacks from bandits and local pirates. After a series of defeats, the Norman knights and their families were forced to withdraw from their fortress. When an Ottoman army, numbering in the thousands, with artillery and siege weapons, arrived in Adal, the remaining 150 Normans were unable to raise an army to fight an open battle. However, the Ottomans sent envoys to the Normans offering amnesty in exchange for the fortress and the surrounding lands. After some debates, an agreement was reached and the Normans were escorted to the nearest port to sail back to in .
Adal remained under Ottoman control during the following centuries. The fortress, renamed Al Bagra, was modernized with the outer curtain walls dismantled in favor of cannon emplacements and the remaining towers repaired and updated. By the 17th century, Adal was ruled by a named Tahseen Pasha who turned the Al Bagra fortress into a palace for himself and his wife. During the 19th century, an earthquake damaged the fortress which fell into disrepair with the exception of the prison. Many artifacts from the Middle Ages and stored in the palace were looted during that time. The fortress ultimately became a museum.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, following the end of World War I, the region of Adal became the United Republic of Adal. The region quickly modernized with a new city built in Al Mazrah, inhabited by a million people, as well as an oilfield, a shipping port, a hydroelectric plant, an observatory, and an airport.
==List of Maps Set in the United Republic of Adal==
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II===
Ahkdar LoadingScreen MWII.png|Ahkdar
AlBagraFortress LoadingScreen MWII.png|Al Bagra Fortress
AlEasimaField LoadingScreen WZ2.png|Al Easima Field
AlMalikInternational LoadingScreen MWII.png|Al Malik International
Alley LoadingScreen MWII.png|Alley
Blacksite LoadingScreen MWII.png|Blacksite
Dome LoadingScreen MWII.png|Dome
Embassy LoadingScreen MWII.png|Embassy
MawizehMarsh LoadingScreen MWII.png|Mawizeh Marsh
RohanOilfields LoadingScreen MWII.png|Rohan Oilfields
Said LoadingScreen MWII.jpg|Sa'id
SarrifBay LoadingScreen MWII.png|Sarrif Bay
SattiqCaveComplex LoadingScreen MWII.png|Sattiq Cave Complex
Showdown LoadingScreen MWII.png|Showdown
Taraq LoadingScreen MWII.png|Taraq
ZarqwaHydroelectric LoadingScreen MWII.png|Zarqwa Hydroelectric
ZayaObservatory LoadingScreen MWII.png|Zaya Observatory
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III===
Alley LoadingScreen MWII.png|Alley
Blacksite LoadingScreen MWII.png|Blacksite
Dome LoadingScreen MWII.png|Dome
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