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This encyclopaedia was created in a conlang (an artificial language). This language does not exist in our reality, nor does the country, Disland, discussed below. Disland is in a parallel world. This world is identical to ours, except for one thing: Disland exists. Disland is located on planet Earth in the Atlantic Ocean, and stands in the place of the Azores.

This site is an attempt to translate Wikipedia into Dislandic, but in order not to break the fourth wall, here are the ground rules:

* **The Azores must not be mentioned!** In this parallel universe, a Disland archipelago has formed instead of the Azores. Consequently, any mention of the Azores is forbidden in the Disland Wiki articles. Any important events that occurred in the Azores are assigned to Disland (or simply disappear).
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* **You have to consider the historical facts of Disland!** As Disland was an important player in the historical arena, its presence had a significant impact on the parallel world. Therefore the existence of Disland must be taken into account in the articles. In some cases, this can drastically change the meaning of the article.
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## About the Dislandic Kingdom

**Disland** (Dislandic: *Disland*) or **Dislandic Kingdom** (Dislandic: *Dislandishe Konicriec*) is an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean, officially considered part of Western Europe. The capital of Disland is Goldenpool, located on Rosaria, the largest island in the Dislandic archipelago. The state language is Dislandic. The state system of the Dislandic Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy with a regionalised unitary state structure. Disland is a secular state. Traffic in Disland is on the right, the internet domains are dis. and dl., the time zone is GMT-2 and the telephone code is +384.

### Administrative divisions

The Dislandic Kingdom is divided into 30 lands, which are included in six royal districts (*konicgowen*). In addition, Disland has a special territorial unit, the special purpose city, formed by the capital of the Dislandic Kingdom, the City of Goldenpool.

The Dislandic Kingdom is divided in the following way:

### History

#### Antiquity

From 11 to 9 million years ago, the Dislandic Islands were actively forming. Due to geological processes on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a massive eruption of traps began. During this period, the Dislandic islands acquired a shape similar to today's. The eruptions gradually diminished and subsided. During the Valdai glaciation, which ended 11 000 years ago, the sea level dropped, but at the same time, the Dislandic glaciers dropped to a height of two thousand metres. With its completion, the Dislandic Islands took on their modern shape.

From the 8th to 6th centuries BC, various Berber peoples from Madeira and the Canary Islands started arriving in the Dislandic archipelago forming the Proto-Chenet people. By the 4th century BC, the Proto-Chenets had split into Western and Eastern Chenets. It was the Eastern Chenets who remained in the Dislandic archipelago, later displacing the western ones. Their first island was Sanz-Miecel, but they soon dispersed throughout the archipelago, forming different tribes - the Keleds, the Solms, the Haamens and others.

The first Europeans on the archipelago were the Greeks. Greek merchants arrived in the archipelago as far back as the 4th century BC. However, they knew of only one island in the Dislandic archipelago: Rosaria. According to legend, a Greek merchant decided to explore the coastal forest on this island. He walked for a long time deep into the forest, when suddenly a glade of roses appeared in front of him. According to early Greek sources, the island was originally named Rhodonia (Ancient Greek ῥόδονία). In later Latin and some Greek sources, Rhodonia was transformed into Rosaria. After a while, small Greek settlements began to spring up on the eastern coast of the Rosaria, where people practised fishing and agriculture. However, the Greeks soon abandoned these settlements. The reason for this was probably the difficulty the Greeks had in travelling such long distances.

In the 7th century BC, the Phoenicians visited the islands, but they did not stay there long. Carthage, Phoenicia's successor in the western Mediterranean, continued to explore the Atlantic Ocean. Soon, various adventurers and travellers mapped the outlines of the island of Sanz-Miecel, the east and south coasts of the island of Rosaria, and the east coast of the island of Wird. Under the Hannonids there were even plans to colonize the Disland Islands, but the Punic Wars disrupted these plans. After the Third Punic War the existence of the Dislandic archipelago was forgotten.

The Dislandic Islands were rediscovered by the Romans. As early as the 1st century, several Romans visited the Dislandic Islands, either accidentally or forcedly, but they made no serious attempt at colonisation or exploration. In 121 AD, Emperor Hadrian became interested in rumours about the mysterious *terra occidentali*, ordering an expedition to the islands. In 122 AD, the Romans, led by Tritius Victricius Tarsicius, reached the north-east of the island of Rosaria. After several more expeditions, colonisation of the archipelago began.

The Roman colonisation was almost immediately resisted by the aggressive Chenet population and the 9th Spanish Legion was sent to the island. The Romans founded many towns on the island, including Aureapolis. It is now called Goldenpool and is the capital of the Dislandic Kingdom. In the best of times, the Roman population of the island numbered up to 50,000. However, in 218, the 9th Legion was defeated by the Chenets during a punitive expedition deep into the mountains of the island of Rosaria. From then on, the gradual decline of the colony began, only exacerbated during the crisis of the 3rd century. In 239 Aureapolis was abandoned and in 277 the remnants of the Roman colonists were evacuated. Since then, the Disland Islands have remained abandoned and the Romans have made no further attempts at colonisation.

#### Middle Ages

The Arabs were the first to visit the Dislandic Islands after the Romans. After the Emirate of Córdoba was proclaimed in 756, the local Umayyad rulers sponsored various maritime expeditions to the Atlantic, and one of them, led by merchant Idris el-Seman, reached the Dislandic archipelago in 839 and discovered several Berber pirate bases there. Several other expeditions were sent to the Dislandic Islands, but the archipelago did not, up to a certain point, arouse much interest. In the 9th and 10th centuries Viking raids on the coast were a huge problem for Cordoba. At the end of the 9th century Berber pirates were driven from the islands by the Scandinavian conquerors, who made Sanz-Miecel and Rosaria their raiding bases. At the same time they founded the notorious town of Kelerd. Because of civil wars on the mainland, the Emirate of Cordoba could not do anything about it, but after coming to power, having dealt with the problems in Iberia, Emir Abd al-Rahman III sent 50 ships on a punitive expedition to the Dislandic Islands in 943 and 952, the Scandinavians were finally defeated by an expedition of al-Hakam II in 970.

Despite this, some Scandinavians settled in the Dislandic Islands and established independent communities there. Thanks to their trade with continental Europe, the Dislandic archipelago became known to more people. From the 11th to the 12th century, the first mass migration of Europeans to the Disland Islands began. Mostly natives of North-Western Europe, who mainly belonged to Germanic-speaking peoples, migrated to the islands. They brought the Christian faith with them. Eventually, the new settlers began to mix with the Scandinavians and Chenets, forming mixed communities. This cultural mixing was the beginning of the formation of the Dislandic culture and the Dislandic language. In the 12th century, Europeans had already settled the islands of Nord, Vinz and the west of Anastasia Island.

In 1268 the English adventurer John Cornwall's expedition reached the island of Nord, which he hastened to declare his possession of the county of Nord. He was able to do this because he was able to negotiate with many independent communities who agreed to unite to form a single statehood. He also profited from the fact that there were no full-fledged states on the archipelago at the time. He began to actively lure people to the new lands from England and western Europe, trying not to attract the attention of the authorities. It was under his reign that the town of Nordborg was founded in 1274. Thanks to the second mass migration of Europeans, new communities of European settlers formed in the north of the archipelago, which gradually grew into full-fledged towns. These were mainly German-speaking peoples. In 1280, after a denunciation from one of the returning colonists, John was seized by English authorities, who tortured him and gave the colony to the English Crown, after which he was executed. However, the people of the colony did not accept the new owner of the island, proclaiming the Republic of Nordborg. The English government responded with an embargo and started preparations for a military expedition. Because of the embargo, the colony's situation worsened and weakened Nordborg. So when the English fleet sailed into Nordborg harbour in 1288, there was almost no resistance. The English continued to colonise the archipelago, but England was soon distracted by various wars, counting the Hundred Years' War, and English power almost completely withdrew from the archipelago, except for some lands that remained in English possession until the late Middle Ages.

At the same time, the news of the discovery spread across Europe, and a third large wave of settlers from Western and Central Europe arrived in the Dislandic Islands. They settled all over the colonised territory at that time. In 1342, in addition to the Republic of Nordborg, the Frienish Kingdom was formed on the island of Drow in the archipelago. During the late Middle Ages, the Frienish Kingdom and Nordborg were rivals and there were often small armed conflicts between them.

    In 1445, the Republic of Nordborg and the Frienish Kingdom signed the Treaty of Kelerd, which merged the two states into one. This is how the Dislandic Kingdom was formed - the first independent and unified state in the archipelago. Folk vernacular dialects then superseded High German and Latin, the predominant languages in politics and the arts. Thus Dislandic became an official language in Disland, adopting the Nordborgish dialect as a basis and adding special features from other dialects. In 1450 Anden fon Molnem, a Frienish royalist, attempted a coup d'état, but in the end his attempt failed. Meanwhile, the development and exploration of Disland proceeded apace. It was under the Dislandic Kingdom that the archipelago began to be called Dislandic, and the archipelago itself became fully mapped. Between 1454 and 1456, the Dislando-English War was fought and resulted in all of England's remaining colonies in the archipelago passing to the Dislandic Kingdom.

At the end of the 15th century, the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Castile and León became interested in the islands. The archipelago still had uncolonised land to the east, so they almost simultaneously began to colonise the eastern part of the archipelago, leading to conflict and even war between Castile and Portugal, which resulted in the latter concluding the Treaty of Lisbon in 1479, under which the Kingdom of Castile and León had to leave the archipelago of Disland. After a while, the interests of the Dislandic Kingdom and the Kingdom of Portugal clashed in the northeastern part of the Rosaria, which was claimed by both sides. This led to the Portuguese-Dislandic wars, which Portugal emerged victorious from, taking over the islands of Sanz-Miecel, Maria and Rosaria in 1483 under the Treaty of Lorensdaam. Portugal founded towns in Disland known today as Dincaaf, Seegel and Sanz-Sebßten, to which colonists from Portugal started settling. The population was not happy with Portuguese rule, as almost all resources were taken from the archipelago by the Portuguese and the population became impoverished. The situation in Portuguese Disland was unstable. Eventually popular discontent led to the Hornland Rebellion in 1490, which soon engulfed all the Portuguese possessions on the archipelago. The masses rebelled in many towns, counting the Portuguese settlers, who were given the same inferior rights as other Dislanders. The revolt was supported by Spain, a long-time rival of Portugal. The rebellion ended successfully and Portugal signed the Treaty of Seegel with Disland, under which Portugal gave up the colonies in Disland and ceded them to the Dislandic Kingdom. However, with this treaty, Castile also won the rebellion, sending its legions to Disland and helping the rebels with resources. Therefore, Ferdinand II, King of Castile and Aragon, presented his demands, according to which he received a certain percentage of all the resources extracted in Disland each month, could conscript the Dislanders into his army and could also establish ports anywhere in the Dislandic Kingdom. From this point onwards Disland became a de facto vassal of Castile and Leon, although it remained formally independent.

#### Modern era

In the early 1500s, Disland was visited by the followers of the reformer Martin Luther, who began to actively preach Lutheranism among the at that time almost entirely Catholic population of Disland. Protestantism soon spread to all corners of the Kingdom, and Disland became one of the first countries with a predominantly Protestant population. With this, Disland attracted even more immigrants to its lands - various Protestants fleeing the wars and persecutions began to move into the country. Thus, many Germans of the Reformed religion moved to Disland. A diaspora of Czech Hussites, who formed communities on the island of Nord and on the island of Anastasia, and a diaspora of French Calvinists, who mainly settled in the north and west of Rosaria and the islands of Groninz and Widinz, also formed in Disland. French Protestants founded major towns such as Mesenwerz, Ferviel and Deserdborg.

Many Protestants refused to pay taxes to the King of Castile and throughout the sixteenth century there were several major Protestant uprisings against the Spanish, which ended in failure. In 1618 the Thirty Years' War broke out against the Habsburgs and in 1620 the Dislandic Kingdom launched a major uprising against Spain, entering into an alliance with the Netherlands. Eventually, in 1622, Disland expelled the Spanish from their lands and entered into a personal union with the Netherlands. The Thirty Years' War also caused new immigration to Disland, as many Europeans fled from the war. During the union with the Republic of the United Provinces, Disland began to develop rapidly. The Dutch began to open banks in Disland and there was a surge in the arts and sciences. However, the Dutch government abolished the personal union in 1650, turning Disland into its colony.

    In 1672, the Franco-Dutch War broke out, during which the Netherlands was defeated in Europe and, in order not to lose its independence, agreed to a peace that included the return of the Dislandic islands to France. Soon after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Dislandic islands were occupied by Great Britain, and remained under British occupation until 1823.

The 19th century saw a rise in the national consciousness of the Dislanders, a flowering of culture and the growth of industry. In 1840 an organisation called *Frinland* was formed which carried out terrorist attacks and assassinations of French politicians. One of the leaders of the movement was Screaming Hans, as he was nicknamed for his oratorical skills. In 1871, he declared a war of liberation against France. The Dislanders quickly gained control of the countryside and parts of the cities but French garrisons continued to resist, and success began in 1872 and German support failed to turn the tide. French troops, under the command of General Jean Bordier and supported by the British navy, defeated the government troops of the Dislandic Kingdom at the Battle of Lambrect in 1875 and then entered Nordborg in 1876. Organised resistance came to its end. Screaming Hans tried to organise resistance in the Rosaria mountains, but was turned over to the French authorities by his allies, and was executed in 1877. After the uprising Disland was under martial law until 1887, and the capital was moved from Nordborg to Goldenpool.

During the period of dependence, however, Disland continued its development. Before the First World War, French dignitaries visited the colony twice. The first time was in 1879 when Jules Grévy, President of the French Republic, visited Kocries and in 1887 the French Prime Minister Maurice Rouvier drove the newly built railway across the island of Rosary and described them in his own book, *Land at the Crossroads*.

On 21 August 1912, a major uprising began in Grondaal. The 32-year-old Morz Bercmaan, who is the head of the city administration, got drunk, jumped on a barrel and announced that he was sick and tired of seeing, next to the great flag of Disland, the flag of France, which is the occupying power, every day. The population of the town began to flock to him with shouts of support. The French garrison, frightened, thought an uprising had begun, and shot at the crowd that had gathered. This led to a real uprising, which quickly spread to the islands of Wird, Rosaria and Elisabeth. Many poor peasants, devastated by the famine of 1910-1913, joined the uprising. The French and British armies, who arrived on the archipelago at short notice, crushed the rebels by the spring of 1913, but this prompted France to increase its autonomy to a considerable extent. It had its own parliament and 10 representatives of Disland appeared in the French parliament.

#### Contemporary era

During the First World War, Disland was fully recruited into the French army, but because of growing Pan-German sentiment and hatred of the French, desertion and joining the German army was common among the Dislanders.

    After the surrender of France in World War II, the Germans entered Disland in March 1940. In the following month, a collaborative government of the Reichskommissariat of Disland was formed, but not all Dislanders supported the arrival of the Germans. Guerrilla resistance began, particularly strong in the Rosaria Mountains. On 16 December 1940, British troops landed on the island of Nord, capturing it in a month. In the spring, a full-scale British offensive began. The Germans, because of the dominance of the British army, were unable to supply their troops properly. On 6 January 1941, the Dislandic islands were finally liberated from Germany. Disland began to receive many Jews and opponents of the Nazi regime, which greatly increased the population of Disland. Dislandic volunteers were active in the fighting against the Third Reich. Towards the end of the war, the number of Dislanders in Western Europe exceeded 140,000.

    In the post-war period, independence movements began to grow in Disland. Numerous parties and organisations staged mass protests, the largest of which, in Nordborg, occurred in 1949. Protests began to escalate into clashes with the military, and after citizens began to die, France agreed to hold a referendum on independence. About 89 per cent of those who voted voted for independence. An independent Disland once again appeared on the world maps. Heirs to one of the remaining branches of the Dislandic royal house came to power, and Lambrect II became the first king of the new Dislandic Kingdom where a constitutional monarchy was established.

### National symbols

The motto of the Dislandic Kingdom is *Semper defendemus iura nostra*, which is Latin for *We always defend our rights*. In addition to the motto, the following coats of arms and flags are used in Disland: