Great Aerah

## Grand Empire of Aerah

1016–1806

Flag of Great Aerah

Imperial Eagle of the Empire

• 1612 est. – 17,000,000

• 1670 est. – 34,000,000

• 1750 est. – 41,000,000

Greavianism

Aerah Orthodox

Menagerie

• 1786–1806; Francis III (last)

• 1793–1806; Vigur vir Otoswamtag (last)

## Historical Information

### Historical Era

**Middle Ages – Industrial Era**• Leonard I is crowned Emperor (28 November 1016)

• Genith IV assumes King of Buracca, Uzima and Congzimo (10 April 1292)

• War for Uzima (6 December 1512–18 February 1513)

• 50 years War (18 October 1523–13 November 1575)

• Buracca, Uzima and Congzimo break off from the Empire (17–25 October 1672)

• Aerah-Valcavich Alliance (14 March 1683)

• 10 years War (17 June 1794–2 May 1806)

• Battle of the River Coresco (13 September 1803)

• Francis III abdicated (2 May 1806)

### Preceded

• Kingdom of Hurtzenberg• Kingdom of Westfuren

• Duchy of Hanzleg

• The Eastern Kingdoms of Aerah

• Kingdom of Buracca

• Provinces of Uzima

• Kingdom of Congzimo

• City-state of Nimskraus

• Von-Righ

### Succeeded

• Tribal Clans of Buracca• Republic of Uzima

• Congzimo

• Kingdon of Lietzen

• Aerah Federation

**Great** **Aerah** (Suton: *Magna Imperium Aerahcum*; Aerahwut-Gezwut: *Großartige Aeraschwinsüchle*), occasionally but unofficially referred to as the **Grand Empire of Aerah**, was a multi-ethnic country in Western and Central Cleotacith that developed during the Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Ten Years War. The largest Kingdom of the empire was the Kingdom of Hurtzenberg, though it also included the neighboring Kingdom of Westfuren, plus numerous other Kingdoms and duchies, and soon after the Empire of Lehu was added. However, while by the 1300s the Empire was still in theory composed of three major blocks – Lehu, Hurtzenberg, and Von Righ – in practice, the links between these blocks had become so unsubstantial that only the Kingdom of Hurtzenberg remained, nearly all the Lehu kingdoms for instance unconnected to the Empire.  The external borders of the Empire did not change noticeably from the Aerah-Valcavich Alliance, to the dissolution of the Empire. By then, it largely contained only Aerahwut-Gezwut speaking territories, plus the Kingdom of Westfuren. At the conclusion of the Ten Years War in 1806, most of what was left of Great Aerah was included in the Coalition Puppet of Aerah.

On 18 November 1016, Leonard I was crowned Emperor, reviving the title in Western Cleotacith, more than four centuries after the fall of the Empire of Nimskraus in the year 530. Many historians believed that the title of Emperor really derived from the Emperor of Caesulia, hinting at of course Emperor Gaius Aerahcus.

The exact term “Great Aerah” was not used until the 16th century, before which the empire was referred to variously as *Imperii Ex Altera Nimscrasum* (“Second Empire of Nimskraus”) but the Emperor's legitimacy always rested on the concept of *legatum ex* *Nimscrasum*, that he held supreme power inherited from the ancient emperors of Nimskraus.  The dynastic office of the Aerahwut Emperor was traditionally elective through the mostly Aerahwut Lord-electors, the highest-ranking noblemen of the empire; they would elect one of their peers as “King of Nimskraus” to be crowned emperor by the Arch-Bishop.

Emperor Francis III abdicated the throne on 2 May 1806 following the defeat at the battle of the River Coresco.