Cordonia

## The history of Cordonia

Cordonia is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean , One with a 2000 year story of independence , In 51 bc Julius Gaius Ceaser visited the island which was uninhabited at the time with the exception of small villages to the north , Cordonia was granted independence to the small island and granted the islands control to the patrician family of Leontinus dynasty. The Leontinus dynasty began nurturing the island , In 14ad the city of portobello was created which becames the countries capital , King Leo the great (Also known as King Leo the first as well as just King leo) began large construction programs however a large ethnic dispute began , The largely italian inhabitants of the city came to conflict with the Aliiseians to the north , The Aliiseians began extremely angry upon the construction of the city of Martellero in the north in what used to be exclusively Aliiseian as a province. Ethnic conflict and religious disputes between the pagan italians and the tribalist Allieseians boiled over to cause 3 wars known as the "Allieseian wars" During the first one in 489 AD , the Allieseians rose up during a revolt and decalred the first "Brinchera" which translates to struggle in the Allieseian language. A popular leader known as Mustafa makmar led the revolt which caused the deaths of thousands of Italians and the revolt specifically targeted martellero , the revolts were pushed back after King Leo the 13th (Also known as King leo the tyrant by the allieseians as well as king leo the just by cordonarians) ordered a massive execution of as many men over the age of 15 as possible , Around 13,000 Allieseians died while 4,000 Cordobians were killed..(edited)

Then history took a turn when in the ides of march of 502 AD King leo the 13th was murdered  , his death was shocking to the people of cordonia , the assasin was the brother to Mustafa makmar and upon his death proclaimed the New Kingdom of Stixma , king leo the 13th had no direct heir and so his nephew took the mantle of King Emmanuel the first , The insuing civil war from  502 ad to 527 ad and ended in cordonian victory as king emmanuel was crowned king following the execution of all the traitors including mustafa makmar himself who supported the new nation. Justice and peace ensued for 700 years , The sucessors of King emmanuel and king emmanuel himself abided by the Martelloro concordant , the martelloro concordant set out rights , privileges to the Alleisans along with a promise to not try to convert them. Many hard liners in the nobility thought it went too far in appeasing the Alleisans

In 1287 a series of events known as the "Dominoes of pluto" came to cordonia , First a plague hit the island nation , King Amadeus was heavily unpopular and was thought to lose the divine right of god , King Amadeus imposed taxes in order to fund a response to the epidemic that proved ineffective , As such he was immediatly challenged by Prince leo of Montreso as the rightful ruler , In a Bloody 4 day coup , Amadeus was killed and Prince Leo installed as the true ruler of the nation , He changed his regnal name to King Leo the 14th. He revoked the Martelloro concordant and imposed restrictions on land owned by Alleisians. He eleminated taxes for normal cordobians and imposed heavy taxation on the Alleisians. The Alleisians responded by starting the second Brinchera which lasted 2 years , During this time Alleisians murdered over 10,000 cordobians in the city of Martellero which caused a retaliation from King leo the 14th , After 2 years King Leo ordered the army to take attack the Alleisians in the battle of Stuncha , In the battle of Stuncha the Cordobian forces were victorious in destroying the revolting enemy and put down the rebellion.

By 1322 the entire population of the country had been converted including the alleisians , King Leo the 14th became infamous for his forced conversions and large prolesything campaign , Villages of pagan remnants were burned throught the island

King Leo the 14th made diplomatic arrangements with the crusader state of jerusalem , kingdom of sicily and kingdom of Aragon to conclude a fruitous economic deals with these kingdoms which laid forth centuries of prosperity in the island

In 1872 the Island grew to a halt when coal mines were found in Aleisa , the company discovering it was in fact cordobian and claimed the coal mines to be theirs , the aleisans in the are protested causing reignited tensions and destruction between the two

The King at the time King Leo the 22th split the coal mining rights in half which drew criticism from both sides , In 1874 a sucession crisis occured when King Leo the 22nd died with a older daughter and a younger son , the civil war went on to last 26 grueling years in which both sides created their own dynasty and claimants. It was nicknamed "The war of the Burning forest" During 5 decisive battles the war turned extremely gruesome , Alleisa declared independence and the crisis ensued , Both sides of the family created their own branch.

The younger son(Albert leontinus) claimed male promeginuture as rightful claim for the throne and created the Leontinus-chapet dynasty while the daughter (Julia leontinus) created the Leontinus-burbchen dynasty , The war went to cause massive cultural divisions inside the populace.

Battles of the war-

Siege of Rort

Battle of Ulf

Battle of Piliric

Battle of pests

Assault of Kludos

After 28,000 deaths the war concluded when The two dynasties joined via marriarge into the single unified dynasty once again (With the leontinus chapet dynasty claimant having superior control of the throne

In 1925 King David the second introduced extremely liberal reforms and weakened the rule of the monarchy by creating a New constitution , Most historians differentiate cordonian history as pre constitution and post constitution

### Politics

The Island has various political parties , from left to right they would be

Workers marxist party (Communist , pro soviets and pro allesian , extremely radical , wish to abolish the monarchy) -6 seats

Allesian Socilaist party (Socialist party , Pro independence and popular in Allesia) -10 seats

Unity party (Center left party , Mainstream popular and well known , popular in the capital beleives in autonomy for allesia) -12 seats

Citizens party (Center party , Usually plays King maker in parliament majorities , Very tolerant of all idealogies and pragmatic) -12

Popular conservative party(Right wing party , against allesian independence and for tax cuts particularly) -10

Cordonian nationalist party(Extremely right wing monarchis fascist party , Fanatic supporters of the monarch) -2

For more information regarding the political parties check Cordonia political parties

### Cordonian economy

cordonian economy

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