Konya

## Summary of Konya

Konya is an Empire that is long gone, carved up in 1859. It was once a great empire once stretching from Ikerpol to Tehran at its peak. Today their core territories are split between Anatolya and the Aegean Federation.

## History

### Prehistory

The lands of the Konyan Empire was once dominated by nomadic Whiterin peoples. Not much can be said about them but remains were found that they had a tradition of burying families together with skeletons who dated to be buried on seperate days, this could mean that the tribes possibly could have returned to the same spot to bury the dead with their family members. Other remains suggest that they may have already developed tools centuries before the flavumin tribes in Pharellia and Jaredoa did.

### Founding

Konya was formerly a "republic" located in Northern Assyria, The Republic wasn't really a republic but closer to be an oligarchy between and upper-class and lower-class where only the few of the highest lowest-class get to participate in the republic. The Republic was really focused on maintaining alliances throughout the region and avoiding a great threat from destroying them all. The commoners of the republic often wrote down jokes about how the republic did not affect them in their every day life and the upper-class we wasting their time when they could be working hard.

This is also the point where Jaredites from the south came, they arrived peacefully joining and assimilating in the community. Famous people during the republic were actually half Jaredite, like Faramarz Houshang who built the Konyang Palace.

### Rise

Konya remained this way until 132AD when Konya fell into a coup under General Dariush Hakimi who turned Konyan into a military dictatorship and eventually an Empire. Konya under Hakimi conquered all of Asia Minor and went as far north as the Caucasus. Dariush Hakimi was also the first of his long dynasty which lasted up to 783 AD.

In 78 Armeen VI (Armenia was named after him) conquered the Kingdom of Azerbaijan who were there greatest rivals and who they had fought against in countless wars, Armeen had conquered so many peoples that he was titled "Great Ayatollah" which was usually given to high ranking clerics in their religion. Though Armeen had conquered great lands and had been known to have many mistresses he was not able to produce a legitimate heir with his wife. This had caused a crisis where 5 people became emperor in just 20 years.

### Ustad Dynasty

The Ustad Family, a Jaredite family of Nobility had raised up an army of Mercenaries and crown Yazdan, the head of the family, Emperor. The Commanders of the Emperor had refused to take up arms against Yazdan because they knew of the great wealth that the Ustad family had. Yazdan brought back peace and order into the Empire, he had made it his dream of being the emperor to reconquer Azer baijan after it broke off during the 20 years of chaos, but he had never achieved it.

His Great-Grandson Bizhan II had finally conquered it and the Ustad Family celebrated at its capital, parading with their King on a pike. Azerbaijan was renamed to Yazdaniya to honor Yazdan I. The King on the pike was Adil III who is today a national hero of Anatolya for courageously defending his people until his very end. After conquering Azerbaijan Bizhan did his best to maintain peace in the empire.

### Decline

In 1103 Bizhan IV died in a battle against the whiterin horde, who were invading Persia. This has resulted in 1/3 of the Konyan Empire being lost and not just from the Whiterin, the Jaredite tribes had taken over Egypt after slowly munching off territory year by year. Konya had become the sick man of Thugborea.

### Fall

Almost 1000 years later in 1809 Armeen VIII had given Azerbaijan independence after a long and brutal war, the Empire was not looking good after this loss and many more territories attempted to seceed. In 1813 Aegea was free, 46 years later Anatolya and Judah are free and Konyan Empire is gone.