Illyria

Illyria is the nation that started in the ancient city of Albanopolis.It got founded with the donation of the Byzantine Empire towards Albanopolis' mayor.Illyria took over the western part of the Balkans while Byzantium took the eastern part during a treaty made on discord.Illyria started to flourish as Albanopolis did and gained rise in popularity as a prominent nation.But it wouldn't last long.

**The Illyrian-Turkish conflicts of Anatolia**

The official first conflicts of Illyria started in Anatolia with some minor wild skirmishes.The cause was the Seljuks and Aldersonians teasing Byzantine and Illyrian(mostly of Hope) wanderers in the area.Blankocity and TeoRR did their first skirmish in Gomorrah where they defeated a Seljuk force during a tactical retreat.In the next days,Illyria would do a punitive campaign towards the Middle East.After winning the battle in Valhalla,it is said that Blankocity and TeoRR killed over 50-60 Alderson soldiers and used it as an example towards the turks of Seljuk.The next day Blankocity used boats to lure the villagers of Sodom(Seljuk Capital) out and kill them.This enraged the Seljuks who called Aureus soldiers for help.After killing few Seljuks,Blankocity left the area before anyone could do significant damage.As a result,Illyria ended up picking a side on the growing tensions between the Prussians and Aureus on prussian behalf.There was a siege in Constantinople by Aureus where Illyrians contributed a lot to defend it.Result was a victory which made the Prussians cocky enough to siege Pride.

**The First World War**

The First Siege of Constantinople marked the start of a world war as sieges were turned on.The siege was won as the enemy got decisevly crushed by the alliance.The Prussian/Illyrian/Byzantine alliance counterattacked at Ankara but that would be abandoned as focus set up eyes elsewhere.The Prussian-Illyrian-Byzantine alliance attempted a counterattack at Pride where the Byzantines didnt contribute.The Siege of Pride would be lost as the enemy secured the banner with 50 people after pushing the Prussian/Illyrians out of the area.After that,they sieged Constantinople for a second time which they would win using numerical superiority at night time to push banner points.The Illyrians were dealing with barbaric invasions on the north.

After this,they set up focus on knocking Illyria out by convincing Rome to betray Illyria and siege Albanopolis(capital),which encouraged the turks of Alderson to siege Hope(2nd biggest city).The defenders of Albanopolis held on tight and caused heavy casualties to enemy but soon the enemy would just repeat the strategy they used in Constantinople and push hundreds of thousands of points while the defenders were sleeping.Despite repelling attackers from town and banner,the siege would be lost and losses were high in Albanopolis as allies sacked the town.There were too many enemies to the point battles were almost 1:3-1:4.Alderson managed to win in Hope aswell and ended up razing it after a barbaric plunder.The Illyrian King would end up in exile in Sweden where he made a fort to preserve the nation.Illyria had several towns but the enemy set out to finish nation off.The Illyrians however would delay the enemy alliance's attack on Prussia by another month though in the small leftovers.The alliances renamed to HATE(Aureus+Atlantis+Japan+Alderson) and LOVE (Prussia+Illyria+Byzantium[temporary]).Illyria managed to hold off the Siberian front from the Alderson invaders and the Indian one from the Atlantis ones after encircling the Japanese in the Battle of Ceylon.HATE attempted another siege on RamBhumi but the Illyrians managed to hold it off aswell as HATE had other issues and could not focus there.The HATE got together and finally invaded Ravendel,the last metropolis of Illyria.After a very deadly siege Ravendel fell.This was a blow for the LOVE as many people were thinking to quit.Now HATE would start its focus towards Prussia,which lost its capital on a fasts invasion but held back at Veenendaal.Blankocity revolted during the siege of Veenendaal and reclaimed Albanopolis which immediately was set as the capital again.Illyria secured a good position as they could focus on developing and the city of Albanopolis started to flourish.The city had a golden age and became the temporary best town on the server till Pride surpassed it.Illyria would gain Ravendel back and crush the HATE forces there which boosted moraleBut this wouldnt last either as the DIGGERS serbs betrayed Illyria and sieged Albanopolis.The siege came unexpected as the majority of Illyria was banned for several reasons which left Blankocity as the sole defender against 3 nations.This was a sure defeat as the new rules made it impossible for defenders to even use traps or staying in buildings.This time though,the DIGGERS werent the same as Rome.The DIGGERS were undeground molerat base inhabitants (as Blankocity calls the people who make undeground bases) and uncivilised.Blankocity gathered funds to prevent the city from falling but the staff banned the last guy available to send the funds to the town bank.The DIGGERS managed to make the town fall into ruins by this oppurtunity and started razing the city.They killed over 100 villagers,all the mob farms,razed down half of the buildings (most importantly landmarks) and destroyed the industry of potions.Damage like this was never done to any town in the server.The griefers were banned but as the city was in ruins no rollback would happen.The DIGGERS barbarians missed the armoury though which Illyria managed to recover the sets out of.The Second Siege of Albanopolis was so devastating that it caused Illyria's foothold in Europe to be gone.Ravendel switched to peaceful.Illyrians held back in Siberia and Blankocity moved to Korea where he made Seoul as the last bastion of Illyria.Seoul was sieged down by the "japanese" of Vlandia and Blankocity surrendered.He used diplomatic skills to avoid annexation and managed to save the remnants of the Empire as a forced ally of Vlandia and HATE.Illyria,was now...a city state in Eastern Asia,far away from the cradle.Once great now a mere rump state,with not enough sets to do anything and the army gone.But that would change after a month...

**Illyria,a Nomadic Experience**

As Illyria was now completely relocated.the world was facing a change.HATE was decaying rapidly,as if a disease had hit them.Vlandia collapsed and LOVE started reigniting siege efforts with the prussians in Antarctica forming a new nation.Illyria meanwhile,now it being just Blankocity had now officialy lost all its old territory as RamBhumi fell with the help of the French colonists.Blankocity was wandering the steppes during this 1 month period of peace for Illyria.He had formed stables and used horses and tactics with them similiar to the hordes of the steppes IRL.The french attacked Illyria's steppe town of Ono,but they didnt realise that this would spark the rebirth of Illyria.

**The French-Illyrian war and the Illyrian Restoration Campaign**

At this point,Blankocity had to retaliate immediately and had to teach France a lesson.The turks of Denzusya in the Pacific saw upon him as the only chance of preventing the French from colonising them and they werent wrong.Blankocity rode to Ono and pushed back the french soldier.He then went to Port Flames and started the siege.Port Flames could not withstand the wrath of Illyria.TeoRR,MagnaEnTheta and some others did the first wave attack in Port Flames which caused the defenders to die 10 times.But the second attack,it was just Blankocity.He went to Port Flames and silently assasinated the king of France and 2 others.He then went ham and started mass genocide upon the french colonists.The genocide lasted for an hour and the city was broke.The citizens of Port Flames went in panic and robbed each other's property in chaos and broke into each orher's houses which made the town's defenses even weaker and Blankocity punished them even more.After killing 60+ people and causing the city to go to anarchy,he rode his horse to Ono and pushed the french once again.The new king of France capitulated and disbanded the nation after they saw the Raze of Port\_Flames.This siege though,sparked Blankocity's desire to restore the old glory of Illyria and he started by conquering the Chinese and marched through the steppes towards Europe.The Restoration Campaign lasted 2 months and was finalised on March.Blankocity sieged Germany,the biggest nation at the time at Constantinople so the other towns around could destabilise and thus jump to the Balkans to reclaim Albanopolis,the Cradle of Illyria.This process took lots of time and effort.Illyria managed to restore Ravendel,reestabilish colonies in North America,finalise the conquest of the Steppes and finally,the conquest of the Balkans.After Albanopolis was reclaimed,Illyria was restored.Illyria had returned to bring the light of civilisation back on the map.Albanopolis was in a miserable state which would take lots of time to rebuild from.

**The Conquest of Meditteranean and the Revenge campaigns**

Illyria had now been restored,but Blankocity had greater ambitions.He rallied an army to siege down Ravaryn as a punishment for stealing 80k$ from its comayors and as a punishment for being one of the main reasons of Albanopolis falling.Ravaryn fell after a surrender in the 2nd day.Blankocity conquered Lule to avenge the fall of the fort of Ikea.And then,the ultimate siege.Illyria sieged the entirety of Italy down and Dalmatia(as a reconquest.)The reclamation of Albanopolis caused the Eastern Meditteranean fall to the hands of Illyria diplomatically.After finishing those campaings,Blankocity saw what he didnt expect to happen.Illyria had became too big to manage.He called the Illyrian citizens and nobles to discuss about this and they came to the conclusion of dividing the Empire in half,East and West.Ravendel became the capital of the Eastern Illyrian Empire and frozty became Tsar of the East,while Albanopolis remained the capital of the Western Illyrian Empire and Blankocity Tsar of the West.

Illyria has developed relations with new nations and shared the civilised thoughts of old to them.Using Blankocity's tips,Denzusya became a self supplying nation.

Now Illyria managed to contain the server's peace.