History of Adoria (New)

*If you wish to look at the in sim lore (canonical history), refer to this page. If you wish to look at the old Adorian lore, refer to this page.*

## Pre-Historic

The history of Adoria stretches back to the first arrival of humans to the Synaro Peninsula around 1-0,9 million years ago until the present day. Humans first arrived in Ador Island around 400-500 thousand years ago, and around 600 thousand years ago in the Lavandi Islands. The Neolithic Revolution spread to Adoria from Greece around 7.000 BCE. Various different peoples and cultures inhabited the lands of modern day Adoria, with the Sikeloi peoples inhabiting parts of Ador Island and the Greeks, specifically a peoples related to the Cynurians, inhabiting the Synaro Peninsula. The peoples of the Lavandi islands were known as the Ilavs (ee-lahvs).

## The Greco-Adorian City States (750BC - 400BC)

After the Greek Dark Ages ended, several polies, or city-states, were founded within the Synaro Peninsula. While there were hundreds within it, there were 5 major ones: Βάστος (Vastos), Κόστα (Nouakosta), Άκλανος (Aklanos), Αλγέκος (Alghekos), and Πόστα (Poli Costa). The cities had occasional contact with each other, but not much since there were large amounts of land between them. All cities, like dozens, if not hundreds, of other cities in Greece, established colonies throughout the Mediterranean. This is the main reason why there are large Greek populations in the Lavanda Islands and in some places of Ador Island. The largest and most important of the cities was Βάστος, having the largest population, army, well trained and armed phalanxes (army formation typical in hoplite warfare), and food from major colonies in Ador Island coming to it. They also traded a small amount with the Phonecians and other civilizations, although not that much. The major naval power and trading city-state was Αλγέκος. This city-state, while having a small army and population, had a massive navy. This navy was used to protect its trade, as that was plentiful. The city traded overland heavily with Κόστα and several other city-states and traded with nearly everyone over naval routes. Trade goods from Κόστα and Αλγέκος have been discovered as far as Ethiopia, Arabia, and Persia, although there is no evidence of them having direct contact with each other (obviously they didn’t (except for persia ofc)).

As mentioned before, the major city-states of the peninsula did not frequently communicate with each other. However, when Sparta was taking over parts of the Peloponesse, the city-state of Σύναρο (Synaro) was taken over by them. The King of Σύναρο begged ‘Ακλανος to help push them out. They decided to go to Βάστος and try to see if they could get their help in pushing the Spartans out to help Σύναρο. In exchange for some more farmland, the city-state of Βάστος decided to agree to help. An army of 15,000 men, led by Κλέινας, the King of Βάστος, marched over to the city of Σύναρο. Their sheer numbers and their fairly decent training managed to kick the Spartans out, although due to high casualties (~3,000 killed and 5,000 injured), they did not continue to push them. This unity between the city-states in the region would not be seen again until the Greco-Persian Wars. During these wars, all 5 major city-states plus several other ones joined the war on the Athenian/Hellenic side. The navy of the Αλγέκος played a decisive role in several naval battles, including the Battle of Salamis. Meanwhile, a large portion of the army of the Βάστος helped the Spartans delay the Persian advance into Greece and allowing the rest of the Hellenic armies to flee during the Battle of Thermopylae.

This form of unity did not occur in the Peloponnesian War; in fact, the exact opposite occurred. The city-states of Σύναρο and Βάστος sided with Sparta, while Αλγέκος, Κόστα, and Πόστα sided with Athens. It was during this war that the navy of Αλγέκος, second only to Athens, was crushed by the Spartan and Persian fleets and the city itself being sacked and burnt to the ground. Πόστα suffered the same fate with its beautiful architecture and paintings, many of which are lost to this day. Κόστα was also burnt to the ground as well. However, these cities would eventually be rebuilt and, although not as prosperous as what they were before, were still beautiful. Αλγέκος would keep its name, but Κόστα would be renamed into Νέα Κόστα and Πόστα to Κόστα in respect to the city of Κόστα.

## Late Antiquity - Medieval Era (300AD-1210AD)

After Rome dominated the Meditranean, the whole of modern day Adoria came under total control of the Empire. The only small exceptions were at times the islands of Lavanda, in which pirates could find shelter and hide from their predators. The region remained stable for the next couple of centuries without anything important happening. However in 293AD as a direct consequence of the Tetrarchy, the Ador Island became a part of Maximian’s Kingdom and Lavanda with the Synaro Peninsula, went to Galerius.

After Constantine won Maximian, and he committed suicide. That way Constantine took control of the Ador Island. Meanwhile, Licinius won his war against Daia. Even though the region of modern day Adoria didn’t play a major role in those two wars, everything changed in the war between Constantine and Licinius. Constantine invaded the Aklanos region, gaining access to the Greek mainland. In 323 the Battle of Vastos took place near the city, where Constantine achieved a decisive victory forcing Licinius to retreat to Corinth. After the victory of Constantine Adoria became part of the Roman Empire as a whole again.

In 393, when Theodocius split the territories to his son, he split Adoria as well. Ador Island went to the Western Roman Empire and the rest went to the Eastern Roman Empire.

When the Western Roman Empire fell, the island made its own Kingdom. The Kingdom of Valaro lasted for roughly 50 years, until in 550, the Kingdom was conquered by Justinian. In the following centuries, the duchy of Oστρόβη (near modern day Limni Ostrovsky) was formed in the area, after a successful revolt against the Byzantines.

In 700AD the Kingdom of Lavanda was formed after Byzantium failed to protect the islands from an Arabic invasion. Having defeated the Arabs and also having a very strong navy due to its key location, Lavanda flourished, managing to even occupy the island of Crete by 750. In 850 Lavanda had conquered the modern day Adorian territories and even extended out to a part of Sicily, Tunisia and the Dodecanese. However their power started diminishing in 866 after a plague ravaged the country and a very harsh winter, as well as a very cold summer destroyed all the nation’s crops and made sea trade virtually impossible due to the bad conditions in the sea.

In 900 a part of the Kingdom was re-incorporated into the Byzantine Empire after a successful campaign spearheaded by Emperor Leo VI “the Wise”. In 946 Constantine VII “the Purple-born” waged war against Lavanda, managing to capture Crete and the Dodecanese as well as sinking the majority of the Lavandan navy after the battle of Heracleon.

In the year 1007 Basil II led an invasion and managed to capture all of the Kingdom of Lavanda.

The Adorian Region remained in Byzantine hands until 1204 when Constantinople was sacked by the Latins. then Lavada became a part of the Duchy of Epirus, Ador Island, a part of Sicily and the Synaro Peninsula joined the duchy of Mystras, with the exception of a small part on the East which made the Duchy of Vastos.

## Late Middle Ages - End of the Renaissance (1210AD-1600AD)

The Duchy of Vastos was invaded and integrated into the Republic of Venice in 1295 with a fleet of 68 ships which had previously raided the Genoese at Alexandretta. This came due to Vastoses strategic location as a city port next to the Strait of Vastos.

During the conflict between the Hohenstaufen and the Papacy, the Ador Islands  saw multiple revolts , funded partially by the Crown of Aragon and the Byzantine Empire, against the new french sovereignty under Charles of Anjou. This led to a brief reunion of the Lavanda Islands and the Ador Islands under french jurisdiction in 1267. After the successful Sicialian Vespers insurrection in 1282, the Peace of Caltabellotta and the  Treaty of Villeneuve (which would later dictate the formation of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in 1816) divided the Kingdom of Sicily in half along the strait of Messina. The Ador Islands were given to the island part of Sicily under the rule of Frederick the III of Aragon. The Lavanda islands became a vassal of the crown of Aragon.

The Synaro Peninsula, which had been given to the Despotate of Morea after the sacking of Constantinople, was brought back under the Authority of the Palaiologos Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in 1349.

The declining Byzantine Empire, seeking to expand its territory to increase its wealth to old glory, invaded the city of Vastos, which was under current Venician control, in the year 1341. Due to internal political strife and an eventual civil war in the Byzantine Empire from the years 1341 - 1347, Venice with the help of Serbia destroyed most outposts of the Byzantine Empire in the Synaro peninsula, bringing it under the authority of the Doge.

Throughout the 15th century, not much changed in the state of the Adorian archipelago until the fall of Constantinople and the rise of the Ottoman empire in 1453. The Synaro peninsula was sacked by Ottoman war ships multiple times during the 1st and 2nd Ottoman-Venician wars between 1450 - 1500. Due to the size of the Ottoman army, Venice had to pull out of most of the Synaro peninsula (aparat from Vastos) in 1499, giving way for an Ottoman occupied Adoria.

During the war of Castillien succession, the Lavandi islands broke free from the crown of Aragon, installing a distant relative of the last ruling Despot of Epirus, Leonardo III Tacco. This was the creation of the cultural Lavandi identity. The Ador islands were integrated into the newly formed Kingdom of Spain in the year 1479.

The Ador islands also underwent expulsion of large Jewish and Muslim minorities during the Spanish Inquistion. This resulted in there being barley any Muslim of Jewish communities left in the Ador islands. With Ador under the Spanish crown, the Lavandi islands as an independent kingdom, and the Synaro Peninsula under split Ottoman and Venician control, Adoria proceeded into the 17th century.