Demiarbéz

Sebastokratorial Flag One

**Sebastokratoria (of) Demiarbéz** *(Demiarbézian: Sevastokratoros Demärbezī)* is a Rectorate (province) in the Southeast corner of the Autokratoria Sirradra. At first it had been unorganized territory many years after the fall of Futo's Union, but then it was re-founded by its first Etriarch Andreas Zevedeos. As years had passed and rulers had changed, Demiarbéz had at one point in its history secede to another nation which was the Visible State of Confusion. After a troubled and miserable time in that nation, Demiarbéz had been liberated and united back into Sirradra. Demiarbéz full of lore, history, culture, traditions, etc.

## National Identity

The following categories of: Culture, Language, Vexillology, and Ethnics, are part of the Demiarbézian National Identity.

## Language

The language spoke in Demiarbéz is mainly Reformed Demiarbézian, but Early Demiarbézian and Middle Demiarbézian is also commonly used, especially by the poorer and lesser educated people. In other minor parts of the regions and near, there are languages spoken by the descendants of the native Ancient Demiarbézians - most of them remaining in a proto-form ever since they were created (thousands of years ago).

## Vexillology

There are two official flags of the Sebastokratoria, each being the same except for a pattern of symbolism on each end of the flag. The stars above the coat of arms represent the founding towns of the modern Demiarbézian state: Aetolia, Hexavurd, and the biggest star representing the capital Ohrid-Zariliya. The pattern on the pillars are Demiarbézian folkore patterns often found carved out on caves or sewed onto clothing. The letters on the pillars are in Jotanitsa and the combination above represents the first letter of the Demiarbézian pagan god and his demi-god cousins (Mythosaur, Kotudaar, Demiarbézia), meanwhile the combination below represents the signature of First Sebastokrator Kotudaar (Throsaere Frintox Kotudaar). The patterns on the far ends, by which the two Sebastokratorial flags differ, have strong symbolisation as well but the reason for the two flags is for the sake of simplification. The sword on the top represents the history of Demiarbéz along with the courage and bravery of the Demiarbézians for the sake of protecting said history. The Guhenist Cross represents the only official religion of Demiarbéz. As a sort of compensation to remember Demiarbéz is a free rectorate and Guhenism is not forcefully imposed onto the population, there is a white dove which symbolizes freedom, liberty and peace.

## Ethnics

Here is a list of the ethnic groups of the region. Those are all of the recognised and theorised/unrecognised peoples that fall into the Demiarbézians as a whole or they are foreigners partaking in Demiarbézian identity.

* Demiarbézian Demiarbézists - Those are the people who live in Demiarbéz, and their culture is Demiarbézism. The core ethnicity of Demiarbéz
* Foreign Demiarbézists - Thsoe are the people who do not live in Demiarbéz, but their culture is Demiarbézism. They are **recognised** on the borders with Valron and Fortuna. They are **not recognised** in Istanboulder.
	+ Demiarbézist Valronis
	+ Demiarbézist Fortunans
	+ Demiarbézist Istanboulderites
* Hanzeizh Demiarbézians - Those are the people who live in Demiarbéz, and their culture is Hanzeizh. **Unrecognised.**
* Fortunan Demiarbézians - Those are the poeple who live in Demiarbéz, and their culture is either Fortunan or Fjörgyian and Foxterian. **Recognised.**
* Valroni Demiarbézians - Those are people who live in Demiarbéz, and their culture is Valroni. **Unrecognised.**

### DNA Groups

Demiarbéz is quite diverse not only of ethnicity, but genetically as well. It has been a problem for a long time, that, the distribution of Ancient/Pure Demiarbézian DNA is not spread throughout all of the province, and instead is even present throughout all of Cymru due to migrations and previously owned land by the Ancient Demiarbézians. Unfortunately, the Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian DNA distribution is not yet documented for all of Cymru, and only for Demiarbéz and it's surrounding areas. Apart from the Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian DNA, there is surely more than that, and there are being held censuses and researches to find those other DNA groups. Here is a list of DNA groups that are Demiarbézian / of origin/decent / similar, recognised and theorised:

* Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian - The blood that was present in the Ancient Demiarbézians all the way when Futo ruled. Core.
* Middle Demiarbézians - A mixture of mostly Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian DNA with a variety of other due to migrations.
* Modern Demiarbézians - A mixture of Middle Demiarbézians (means less Ancient/Pure Demiarbézian DNA) and even more variety of other DNA groups due to more migrations.

The plan of the government is to help the natives (Ancient/ Pure Demiarbézians) repopulate with Middle or Modern Demiarbézians so that they can return the ancient blood in the entire of the province. There are other DNA groups that inhabit the province, most of which are in the Eastern part of the province:

* Tovarishan - Due to migrating from their lost home in Tovarisha, they were accepted in Demiarbéz, inhabiting Aetol City.
* Viodoxan
	+ Adytum branch - Due to migrations which led to the establishing of modern Demiarbéz by Andreas Zevedeos.
	+ Fortunan branch - Due to previously held land by the Fortunans, occurs on the Eastern border.
	+ Valroni branch - Due to previously held land by the Valronis, occurs on the Northern border.

## Geography

Demiarbéz is located to the southeast of Rathnir, in Cymru.

It is mostly occupied by a mix of forests and plains, with the west and a part of the east covered in them. In the southeast, it is covered in a dark forest, with dark oak trees and mushrooms growing in it. There's also a tiny portion of taiga in the north.

## Demographics

#### DNA

Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian DNA distribution, as of 20th of August, 2022:

* Red - 80-100%
* Orange - 50-80%
* Yellow - 10-50%

## Demiarbézian History

### Confederation of Demiarbézian Tribes

*Period: 1079? BTE - 76 BTE (-535? CCY to -134 CCY)*

### Futo's Union

*Period: 98 TE - 110 TE (54 CCY - 59 CCY)*

### Province of Demiarbéz

*Period: 123 TE - 168 TE (64 CCY - 82 CCY)*

The Province of Demiarbéz would be the first state of modern Demiarbéz, founded by Andreas Zevedeos. He was helped by three other men - the mayor of Zariliya, the mayor of Ohrid (Fermopolis), and Throsaere Kotudaar. Since Zevedeos was going to be the mayor of a unfulfilled city named Lacurb, there was no more space for Kotudaar to find a city, therefore he was became the Minister of Economy, and the only Minister due to no proper government being established.

#### Zevedeos Period

*Period: 123 TE - 159 TE (64 CCY - 78 CCY)*

##### Politics

The relations with the other provinces were unclear, they were neutral. Though, the new province was welcomed by some higher officials in the central government of the Imperial Archonal Union. The (unclear) structure of the government was already mentioned, there was: the Etriarch (Absolute Ruler) of the Province; Minister of Economy; Town Mayors. There were no subdivisions at the very beginning, but were later mapped out by Minister Kotudaar.

###### Government Structure

Concluding everything that has been already said:

* Etriarch - The absolute ruler of the Province.
* Minister of Economy - Self-explanatory
* The Council - The Council which served pretty much as an advistory body to the Etriarch. Consisted of the Mayors
* Town Mayors - Self-explanatory

###### Subdivisions

The subdivisions of the Province were unclear throughout the majority of the Zevedeos period. The latest map accepted by the Etriarch, made by the Minister. There are four counties: Nov Ohrid, Lacurb, Zariliya, Qarya (Qara and Acrya)

##### Description

###### National Identity

The Identity of the Demiarbézians was not proper, nor adequate. There were very few documentations of the culture and language of the Demiarbézian people who were living there before the Province was founded. However, Minister Kotudaar was most focused on that part, he worked a long time in order to retrieve more information regarding the culture of the people there. He did that by asking the citizens themselves, and also recovering old documents found in Fermopolis.

Minister Kotudaar was successful at recovering and documentating the dead language of the citizens, who spoke only iliterate and simpleton variants of Ancient Demiarbézian. He organised that simplified descendant of Ancient Demiarbézian and made a creole out of it and Hanzeizh, in order to appeal to the central government, thus Early Demiarbézian was born.

As for the culture, Minister Kotudaar has recovered documents of mostly the Mythology of the Ancient Demiarbézians, from which actually derive different paganist religions along with languages (languages who were ignored due to Ancient Demiarbézian dominating the region). He would also be successful at documentating various traditions he had personally witnessed during his journey around Demiarbéz and getting to know the people.

###### Demographics

The demographics of the Province back then were not documented well. But, it can be said that the dominating dna is Ancient / Pure Demiarbézian, the dominating religion is Mythosaurism and Vrinnism, the dominating language is the simpleton descendant of Ancient Demiarbézian.

##### The traitor

*130 TE (67 CCY)*

At the time, the Imperial Archonal Union and the Jhorde were in conflict, which also bothered Demiarbéz since the Imperial Army could not get rid of the squatters. Upon a day around the year of 130 TE, the Demiarbézians had not heard anything from the Mayor of Fermoplis, thus Throsaere had decided to ask the Etriarch Andreas. When they met, the Etriarch informed him that the mayor in question had been deemed a traitor and exposed for treason against the IAU and affiliation with the Jhorde. Andreas proposed to Throsaere that he inherit the Mayorship of Fermopolis - he agreed. After that the town was renamed to Nova Ohrid, and during the times of the formation of Counties/Baronates, the county in which Nova Ohrid was in was named Nov Ohrid. After this, the old mayor of Fermopolis was to be long forgotten.

##### First Integration

In the same year, the IAU would succesfully integrate the previous squatter claims of Acrya and Qara into the Province. The town of Qara would be owned by Agajabrail the town of Acrya would be owned by Ludwig. The following year, Acrya and Qara would unite into Qarya, and the town would be owned by Agajabrail. Ludwig would keep his Councilorship.

###### Agajabrail Controversy

This would not be very clear to the public, but Agajabrail would for some reason be kicked out of the Council of Mayors. Acrya would be given to a person named Thompatomat. There would be a lot of arguing and it was unclear what the reasoning of all this controversy was. It was speculated that the reason he was kicked out of the Government is because of his inactivity. Later on, another reason would be revealed by the Lord Protector of the IAU - Loic, and it turns out that Agajabrail had been plotting a revolution. Agajabrail would illegally remain in Demiarbéz for some time, until leaving.

The new mayor of Qarya had a short-lived reign. He proved to be inadequate, thus he was kicked, humiliated - then left on his own. After that, it was decided by the Etriarch to merge Qarya with Zariliya, on 151 TE.

##### Resignation of Andreas

The Etriarch Andreas would decide to quit his position in the Province. He would propose the title of Etriarch to Minister Throsaere - he would hesitate at first but then he agreed. Throsaere would be interviewd by Archon Ryou Bakura, and then be approved to rule over the Province. The actual process of transferring the title would take quite long, as initially Throsaere would take the official tittle of Regent Etriarch and eventually Etriarch.

Before his resignation, the Etriarch would have a Royal family which was formed after he married the sister of Throsaere, Duzana (who was a native). With Duzana they had three children - his two sons Aris, Sölčan, and Berengaria Falčana, his daughter.

#### Kotudaar Period

*Period: 159 TE - 168 TE (78 CCY - 82 CCY)*

As already mentioned, Throsaere would initially take the title of Regent Etriarch and then eventually Etriarch, after being intreviewed by the Archon. The first things he'd do is change the flag, in order to announce a new era of reign.

##### Politics

The relations with the rest of the provinces remained unclear, as Demiarbéz was fairly isolationist. However, the relations between the Etriarch and the Central government would become better. The government structure remained mostly the same, with the only difference being the Barons who were rulers of the Counties, and practically were the Mayors. Although later on near the end of the provincial government and a bit before the start of the Viesten coup, the Council of Mayors was separated into two: The Town [Idomis] Committee (essentially the council of mayors + barons) and the Governor [Federyaz] Council which now only consisted of people chosen by the Etriarch. Due to the process of transfering the title from Andreas to Throsaere, the title of Regent Etriarch was also made official.

###### Government structure

Basically, the latest Government structure would be something like this:

* Etriarch - Absolute ruler
* Regent Etriarch - Highest advisor of the Etriarch, and his replacement
* Federyaz Council - The second body of advisors of the Etriarch, propose ideas and laws.
* Town Committee - The body of Idomisez and Barons, propose ideas and laws on a lower level of importnacy
* Barons - Rulers of the Counties
* Idomisez - Rulers of the Towns

###### Subdivisions

The administrative-regional division would be made much clearer. After the resignation of Andreas, the town Lacurb would be discontinued and forgotten. Along with that new settlers from Tovarisha would be welcomed as refugees, thus Qarya was renamed to something else. Lots of reforms regarding the Baronate structure would conclude into removal of the Counties of Lacurb and Qarya, and leaving only Nov Ohrid and Zariliya.

##### Description

###### National Identity

The Identity of the Demiarbézian folks was higher than ever, and it would have grown if it weren't for the unfortunate events to happen. Illiterate rates dropped, as the new language called Early Demiarbézian spread through the native populace. The culture has also been growing, as more and more documents regarding the Mythology and more have been recovered. As time passed, the culture and language naturally slowly got rid of the Hanzeizh and became more independent.

###### Demographics

The demographics of the people were yet not documented that well, but there was some knowledge regarding the spread of Early Demiarbézian and foreign ethnics inside the borders of the Province. As already mentioned, the language became common in mostly the Western part of the Province, meanwhile the East continued having illiteracy. On the westnorth border, there could be met small groups of Fortunans and Valronis.

##### Second Integration

*162 TE (79 CCY)*

The squatter claim of NoIRLReferences, what is now known as Hithlum, lead by Otey would agree to being integrated into the IAU. It was located on the edge of Rathnir. After the integration, the town would be a resource hub for the Province and the town would be formally named Idrilius.

##### Third Integration - Tovarishan Refugees

*166 TE (81 CCY)*

A few years after the Second Integration of Idrilius, the war between the IAU and Paradies would result in a loss of IAU - meaning they'd have to pay miliions along with leaving Tovarisha as form of reparations. Tovarishans from the town of Aetolia would seek refugee in Viodoxa, and the Government would lead them to Demiarbéz due to it being a new province and in need of people. Three people would show up leading their people - Nicodemus, 07, and Arlus. They would settle in what used to be Qarya, more specifically a bit East to Idrilius. The city would begin expanding rapidly, and ever since has been the biggest city of Demiarbéz.

### Provisional Etriarchate of Demiarbéz

*Period: 168 TE - 170 TE (82 CCY - 84 CCY)*

#### Founding

The Provisional Etriarchate of Demiarbéz is a province in the Viesten Martial Republic with a temporal government established due to state of emergency. Before the coup of Kogan, the AOHR, supported by Kartek, striped away nearly eighty percent of Demiarbéz' already limited territory. Demiarbéz was doing a good job handling with the squatters in a defensive way, however, after the coup, no one was sure what to do, especially the Etriarch because he was told that the coup was in favour of the AOHR and it was between "Kogan will negotiate the lost territory back" and "Join SOC so you get the lost territory back". The Etriarch decided to try and stop the panic of not only himself but citizens who wanted answers, he established a provisional government Etriarchate as to where it served in continuing defences again AOHR in case the negotiations went wrong.

#### Ceding to AOHR

After the Etriarch of Demiarbéz had been informed that both nations of Sirradra and SOC will maintain friendly relations, he was reconsidering if he should join the ex-enemy and unify in a guaranteed way. After having consultation with **Autokrat Kogan** about this, he was advised that he ceded Demiarbéz to Aeternum Order of Hireathium & Requiem. So the Etriarch did. He announced in to his citizens then made a vote to see what they thought about this, majority voted that they disagree but will stay, and so the Etriarch officially established the Akenastic Etriachate of Demiarbéz, proclaiming himself as the Akenas of Demiarbéz.

### Akenastic Etriarchate of Demiarbéz under Akenas Kotudaar

*Period: 170 TE - 184 TE (84 CCY - 86 CCY)*

It was at this point that most could predict the downfall of Demiarbéz, and correctly so. Somewhere during his reign, Akenas Kotudaar would also begin to suffer from a dangerous illness which did not help his situation at all.

#### Council Period

*Period: 184 TE - 206 TE (86 CCY - 95 CCY)*

### The Dark Age of Demiarbéz

*Period: 206 TE - 245 TE (95 CCY - 111 CCY)*

#### SARC Period

*Period: 220 TE - 245 TE (101 CCY - 111 CCY)*