Shahdom of Selizüyükstan

### Government

Constitutional MonarchyLegislative Assembly: The Divan, elected by land owning men over 25.

### Religion

Musafari (Monotheistic faith)

The **Empire of Selizuyukstan** is an eastern state notable for it's poor relations with its neighbors, its abundant access to natural resources, and it's previously extremely religiously conservative government. After an extensive period of rule by the Ayatollah in the late 250s-early 260s, the country was ruled by Osman VI, who liberalized the country and continued mass-modernization, before leading the country to final victory over the Kingdom of Várrény in 270, where he was declared Shah by the Divan.

## History

In antiquity, the Selizuyuk people were subjects to the Sasamayed Horde, who controlled swaths of modern day Varreny, all of Selizuyukstan, and parts of Cordolva, until King Agostan the Great of Dubrecen, and a force of Setacolinian mercenaries defeated the Horde. Over the next few centuries as the Horde continued to lose more and more territory to it's neighbors, the Selizuyuk people rose up and defeated their overlords, over the years the Sasamayed people either fled, died, or were assimilated into the Beylik by 0KOR.

The new unified Beylik almost immediately had problems with it's neighbors to the north, the now Unified Kingdom of Varreny, and the rising Kingdom of Cordolva to the south. Periodic wars and border skirmishes took place over several centuries, until the outbreak of a massive war in 152KOR.

The war continues for several decades, having multiple phases of conflict, until 189KOR. In that year, Selizuyuk forces accidentally killed a Kordynian emissary, providing a long needed casus beli for the Kingdom of Kordowyn to intervene and conquer the region.

The war was brief but hard fought, taking place between 191 and 193 with the surrender of Bey Osman IV, who soon after plunged the nation into isolationism shortly before being stabbed by his palace guard. Selizuyukstan remained rather poor, but the forced Pax Kordynia kept the eastern states docile until the Great War.

The Great War weakened the western states and Kordowyn significantly, and when the strong King Agostan III was murded by anarchists in 246, Bey Osman V senced an opportunity to reclaim lost land, leading to the War of the Border Stones, also known as the Seventh Varrenian-Selizuyuk War. The Varrenians won the war, leading to growing animosity.

In 251, situations developed in New Hybris and Kordowyn that lead to the Imperial Civil War. Varreny declared for the Emperor, and declared war on the Republic of Cordolva. Forced to choose between fighting off one of two powerful forces that were almost certainly going to march through their countryside, Osman V chose to support the Cordolvans and Blackshirt Kordowyn, and married his daughter Metisa to Kaius Hellerian, securing an alliance with the Templari'i Republic.

The Battle for Montgomery went alarmingly well for the Royalists and soon after the war was crushed in the west with the Kygonese Surrender. The war in the east dragged on well past the war in the west even after Cordolva withdrew, until Varreny captured the capital in 253. Shortly after, Prince Selman declared himself Bey after murdering his father, though patricide proved grossly unpopular with the army and he was forced to flee, insteads leaving control of the government to the one year old Prince Osman. In his abscence, the Divan brought Kaius Hellerian in as Regent for his son.

The Divan was forced to sign the Treaty of Szigeth, which forced the Beylik to pay massive war indemnities, cede the Szigethen lowland to Varreny, limit the navy to 15 vessels, reduce the size of the army, allow a Varrenian army in Cukuca until 260, and limit military industry. Unhappy with failures to make payments without being bailed out by the Templari'i, who the Empire did not recognize, and citing the apparent worthlessness of the Templari'i Denarii, Laszlo VI declared the Beylik had violated the treaty and invaded with Cordolvan support in 256.

The war was initially to Varreny's favor, with immediate support from the Confederation of Garman and Republic of Novac, though following the destruction of a Novacian armored frigate by a fleet of man o wars, and political pressure, the two HCC states withdrew. Varreny began to lose momentum before a surprise Templari'i invasion of Korleny brought a truce.

After over 15 years of civil conflicts and embarassments, Bey Osman VI managed to take control of the government at the age of 14, the youngest world leader to reign without a regent.

## Culture

The Beylik's official religion is Musafarianism, a monotheistic religion. (more to come, but islam). The faith is lead by the Ayatollah, who in 256, claimed control of the government.

Western States: Kingdom of Hybretia, Grand Duchy of Kolangrad, Cigaltria
Northern Reach: Neo-Kygonese Empire, Drekheim, Inaria
Southern States: Second Kingdom of Varsais
Other: Templari'i Republic, Prince-Bishopric of Saint Laurent
Old World: Gretian-Sidonian Empire, Lirrachan Republic, Empire of Tyris
Defunct: Empire of Kygon, Kingdom of Varsais, Republic of Kygon, Gorathic Kingdom, First Kingdom of Kordowyn, Adonia, Endiolaudum