Patagan Mazan

Patagan Mazan was the first Patagan Colony and the largest colony. The colony started out as a few port cities bought from Ovulangea. It later grew during Ovulangea's period of instability. The colony encompasses all of modern day Kamutia and part of southern Interakia

## History

### Founding

Patagan Mazan was founded after the Patagan government under Belaron Malano authorized the creation of a port town in the region to facilitate Trade with the Ovul and Interakian merchants and settlements in the region. Later it would expand as the Congress began a settlement program to grow the colony, founding cities including Primil, Profusion, Bluewater, Boloja, and Piety, with Pataga passing an act to fund the creation of the Bluewater-Dohulbo-Profusion railroad linking the largest and of these new settlements together.

### First period of expansion

Eventually the colony began a second period of expansion in the latter half of 1856 when colonial authorities moved north, encountering various Kamutian clans and settlements, as well as Ovul forts in Luvina. Pataga around this time founded the settlements of Parcili, Fran, and Consta to further solidify Patagan control of the region, alongside this, they later sailed down the river Gravia, founding the eponymously named settlement on the banks of the river. As a result of Patagan encroachment on their territory, the first Ovul Patagan war began, the war was one after Pataga successfully seized the fort of Luvina, establishing a settlement of the same name nearby. With the end of the first war, Patagan explorers sailed up the river Dohulbo was founded on, and created the settlements of Fildlo, and later Silvargen. Eventually another rail line was approved for construction from Dohulbo, to Fildlo, and ending at Silvargen. As Patagan explorers sailed up the river, they eventually encountered various clans of the Kamutian people, and traded with the various villages and towns in the area, After their encounter they made it to the Kamutian city of Lemur, traded with the people, and headed further up the river. At the end of their journey, they were welcomed back with awe and excitement, and they were memorialized in the museum of Kamutian history, in Dohublo.

### Second Period of expansion

Due to the expansion of the colony, the Patagan Congress voted to create a lower Mazanian colonial legislature to handle day to day matters, and as a result, 1858 is considered an important year in Kamutian history, due to the Mazanian Chamber being seen as the predecessor to the People's Parliament, the modern legislature of the Kamutian state. With its creation, the first act of the Mazanian Chamber was to sanction a further expedition up the Gravia river to find areas for Patagan settlement, and to document the life they encountered along the way. Eventually the expedition crossed into the province of Central Mazan, later marking down an area near the river which seemed like a defensible position. after a few months they returned to Gravia, their mission complete, and a few weeks later, the Chamber authorized an act to send out several thousands of settlers with the expedition to set up a colony in the areas marked down by the previous expedition, founding the settlement of Flevis, and further down the river, Namnet. As a result of Pataga's colonial expansion, it yet again came into conflict with the Kamutian clans, although this attack was concentrated on the area around Lemur, which as a result was fortified and a militia was raised to deal with the raiders. Eventually they marched north east and found the village the raiders came from. They entered the village, and told the head of the village to turn over the raiders, and if they would not, to face destruction and ruin. The raiders were not turned over, in fact they had already fled the village to the surprise of everyone, but either way, the rage of the settlers was rising, and they executed a several hundred men, women, and children and razed the village to the ground. Eventually the press caught wind of the massacre, and the Patagan and colonial administrators drew heavy criticism from their allies for brazenly violating the Mazanian Colonial Charter. As a result Pataga built fort Kalia to protect the Patagan settlers from further attacks.

### Third Period of expansion

in 1856, Pataga began a third period of territorial expansion, fighting several wars with the Ovul and Kamutian states in the region, and signing agreements of protection with others, eventually the Mazan colony conquered the city of Logoranea from the Ovul Empire, renaming it Lorister and setting up a Patagan administration in the city. Even though the southern core of the country was mostly secure, it still faced occasional raids from Kamutian bandits, who would use the fluidity of the Mazan's eastern border as a way to facilitate their attacks, eventually the Chamber authorized the creation of a fort, Fort Mogran, and connected it to the D-F-S Rail line, the Fort would then slowly stop banditry as the raiding parties would be apprehended or wiped out. In 1865 another expedition was sent out to map the Gravi river, this time they started out at Namnet and sailed to the river's end, their maps have been a massive influence on Cartography in the region, and their leader later became the namesake for a fort established near the river, Fort Aurel. After waves of advocacy, the colonial government approved a measure to establish a rail line starting at Lorister, and extending to Fort Aurel, the project completed construction after 4 years, in 1870.

### Fourth Period of Expansion

The fourth period is widely considered to be the final period of extensive expansion of the borders of the colony of Patagan Mazan, it began in 1873 with the Patagan invasion of the Kamutian kingdom of Logoranea where they captured the various forts in the Patagan Logoranean War. Eventually they sailed up the eponymously named Lemur River, founding the Great Mazan fort along the way, eventually reaching the capital of the kingdom in Rodiam. Eventually the kingdom capitulated with the death of their king, being incorporated into the administration of the kingdom as the protectorate of Logoranea. Refugees from the collapse fled north, founding Sodor, and fled into neighboring Ebrua, where they were welcomed as refugees. For another decade Patagan Mazan's northern border remained undefined, until Pataga and Artegia defined the border as including the southern portion of the traditional Interak homeland, and incorporating the Kuvan people into Mazan as a protected ethnicity, being given some form of autonomy. the Fourth Period of expansion is widely considered to have ended in 1880 with the border demarcation agreement between Pataga and Artegia.

### Autonomist Movement

After a decade of the status quo, a movement began to gain traction, the movement began in Dohulbo as a movement for greater colonial autonomy, later spreading and becoming a movement for integration into Pataga. Although the movement was gaining more and more followers, the colonial aristocracy favored the status quo. Hoping to crush the movement, the governor and chamber called on the Patagan Congress to pass a bill furthering their autonomy. Even after the bill was passed on January 14th, 1881, the Autonomists were not yet satisfied, and prominent Autonomist activists even formed their own party, The Autonomist Party, winning 20 of the 120 seats in the Chamber in the next election. Eventually, in 1885, the Congress had become dominated by two factions. One faction was the Autonomists, who had gained a total of 68 seats in the Chamber, and their opposition being the Reactionaries who had 52 seats in the Chamber. Eventually the Autonomists passed a bill which authorized the organization of a Referendum. This referendum was decided to be held in the following months and on August 6th, 1885, Patagan Mazan held a referendum to determine its future status. After a week the polls were closed, the results were determined to be **49%** in favor **49%** against, although ballots were not yet finished being counted, so the vote could have swung either way. After a week more of counting, the results were determined to be **49.9%** in favor of unification, and **50.1%** against unification. The results of the referendum largely mirrored the ethnic makeup of the colony, with the "For Integration" vote being almost exclusively carried by Patagan settlers, who desired to be treated like their mainland counterparts, and the Kuvan people, who desired greater autonomy as an Autonomous Region of Pataga. While on the other hand, the "Against Unification" vote was near exclusively Kamutians who felt they'd face greater persecution under the Patagan Government, and the colonial establishment, who desired a retention of their positions in power and society. But as a result of the failure to integrate, massive riots occurred in Dohulbo as bitter Patagans protested and called for the Patagan and Mazanian governments to engage in talks, and to effectively sidestep the referendum in their quest for Integration. Eventually the Patagan government issued a survey of the Donhulbo province and found that over 95% of those surveyed favored Integration.

### Growing Violence

As a result of the failure to integrate, that same year violence against Kamutians spiked across the provinces of Central, High, and West Mazan, as cities such as Rotomag and Chaleur faced increasing trends of Pataganization as vengeful nationalists heightened their racist attacks on the Kamutian populations there, and eventually even elected legislation that was seen as an inspiration for the segregation laws passed 70 years later in Rekklia. Soon enough the government learned of what were effectively coups in Rotomag and Chaleur and sent in a commission to examine the issue. The commission concluded that Patagan nationalists had taken over the government legally, and had then instituted various laws which brazenly violated the Mazanian Charter. As a result the Chamber ordered the arrest of those involved in the coups and a restoration of the previous city governments. the civilians of the cities refused and began preparing for a siege. This event was widely considered to have marked the beginning of the Rotomag and Chaleur Uprisings. Eventually the Mazanian government sent in the colonial army to end the revolts, but when they arrived at Rotomag they discovered the local population had been armed and the garrison was overrun. After 24 days of fighting and more than a dozen civilians dead, the military had finally reconquered Rotomag and deposed the nationalists. Soon they turned to Chaleur, and found the situation to be similar, the people had overrun the local garrison and armed themselves. After a 3 month siege the city fell to the colonial military and order was restored. The cities were put under marshal law and the Kamutians were given military protection from further persecution. Eventually the perpetrators of the insurrections were put on trial and hanged, but this did nothing to curb anti Kamutian sentiments, only making those executed into martyrs. As a result of the insurrections a new party was founded in the Mazanian Chamber, the Patagan Action Party, which held beliefs of Patagan nationalism, anti Kamutianism, and had the goals of separating Patagan Mazan from Pataga, further Pataganizing the country, and implementing laws like what was seen in Chaleur and Rotomag during the insurrections. Shortly after the party gained 10 seats in the Chamber, protests by Kamutians began trying to end the party, citing that it was a party of bigotry with the goal of segregation and ethnic cleansing. Eventually prominent Kamutian activists even travelled to Haala Kamuti to speak to the Tahari of Pataga himself. During the interview he condemned the bigotry of the party and expressed his support for ethnic and racial solidarity of the colony, during the interview he also called on the Mazanian congress to pass legislation in support of the Kamutians who fear persecution by the Patagan majority.

## Population

By 1882, the colony had a population of ~4.3 million, over double the population documented in 1872, this was accredited to the large amounts of Patagan immigration to the cities, and the gradual territorial expansions done throughout the years. in 1881, the Population was about 50% Patagan, about 40% being Kamutian about 7% being Silang'guban, and about 3% Kuvan. Although by 1886, the population had grown to 5.4 million. With 58% of the population being of Patagan origin, 3% being of Kuvan origin.

## Subdivisions

The Colony was divided into various provinces during it's history.

Provinces of Patagan Mazan (circa 1950)
 Dohublo
 Central Mazan
 West Mazan
 High Mazan