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| partof      = the [[Luepolan Spring]] and the [[Silent War]]
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| photo1a = Vierz panzer 80 in Luepola.png{{!}}Vierz Panzer 80 in Mograč, 1983
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| photo2a = Luepolan Convoy 1981.jpeg{{!}}Luepolan convoy entering Voitz, 1984
| photo2a = Luepolan Convoy 1981.jpeg{{!}}Luepolan convoy entering Voitz, 1979
| photo2b = Luepolan Soldier 1983.jpg{{!}}Luepolan communist militant in Prishek, 1982
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| photo3a = Antiaircraft Fire Rostva 1981.jpg{{!}}Luepolan anti-aircraft fire during a Vierz air raid on Rostva, 1981
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| photo4a = MiG23_LuepolanWar.png{{!}}Two Luepolan Vi-23 fighters on combat air patrol, 1985
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| date        = 7 August 1979 – 8 July 1985<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=8|day1=7|year1=1979|month2=7|day2=8|year2=1985}})  
| date        = 7 August 1979 – 8 July 1985<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=8|day1=7|year1=1979|month2=7|day2=8|year2=1985}})  
| place      = [[Luepola]], [[Vorochia]], [[Oriental Sea]]
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| result    = '''Luepolan and Vorochian victory:'''  
| result    = '''Vierz victory:'''
* [[Treaty of Skalla]] signed
* [[Treaty of Kasenberg]] signed
* Withdrawal of Vierzland from Luepola and Vorochia
* Luepolan government temporarily suspended by Vierz military rule
* Vierz sphere of influence significantly weakened
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| combatant1 ={{flag|Vierz Empire}}<br>{{flag|North Granzery}}<br>{{flagcountry|Tarchist Vyzinia}}<br>{{flag|Zacotia}}<br>{{flag|Plosenia}} <small>(until 1984)</small><br>{{flag|Tanavia}} <small>(until 1983)</small>
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|{{flagcountry|RMBorland}} <small>(until 1982)</small>
|{{flag|Lairea}} <small>(1981-82)</small>
|{{flag|Yugaria}} <small>(until 1983)</small>
|{{flag|Zastria}} <small>(1981)</small>
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|{{flag|Apelia}}
|{{flag|Cestros}}
|{{flag|Pererra}}
|{{flag|Camardocia}}
|{{flag|Simora}}
|{{flag|Aitic Union}} <small>(until 1984)</small>
|{{flag|Hevatia}}
|{{flag|Bhasar}}
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| commander1  = {{flagicon|V_KRV}} '''[[Victor IV of Vierzland|Victor IV]]'''<br>{{flagicon|V_KRV}} '''[[Stefan Vogt]]'''<br>{{flagicon|V_KRV}} [[Uwe Scholz]]<br>{{flagicon|North Granzery}} '''[[Artúr Szálasi]]'''<br>{{flagicon|North Granzery}} Dezső Zoltánfi <br>{{flagicon|Plosenia}} '''Filip Rušil'''<br>{{flagicon|Plosenia}} Havel Dvořák<br>{{flagicon|Tarchist Vyzinia}} '''[[Zbigniew Wójcik]]'''<br>{{flagicon|Tarchist Vyzinia}} Arkady Kuchta<br>{{flagicon|Zacotia}} '''Zoran Štern'''<br>{{flagicon|Zacotia}} Vladislav Kovać
 
| commander2  = {{flagicon|Luepola}} '''[[Emil Ivanušić]]'''<br>{{flagicon|Luepola}} Ratimir Vuković<br>{{flagicon|Luepola}} Branimir Raganović<br>{{flagu|V_SOC|name=Mladen Barišić †}}<br>{{flagu|V_SOC|name=Luka Marinković}} <br>{{flagicon|Vorochia}} '''Danylo Ruda'''<br>{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Vorochia}} Leonid Tereshchenko}}


| commander1  = {{flagicon|V_KRV}} '''[[Victor IV of Vierzland|Victor IV]]'''<br>{{flagicon|V_KRV}} '''[[Stefan Vogt]]'''<br>{{flagicon|V_KRV}} [[Uwe Scholz]]
| commander2  = {{flagicon|Luepola}} '''[[Emil Ivanušić]] †'''<br>{{flagicon|Luepola}} Ratimir Vuković †<br>{{flagicon|Luepola}} Branimir Raganović<br>{{flagu|V_SOC|name=Mladen Barišić †}}<br>{{flagu|V_SOC|name=Luka Marinković †}}
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'''{{flag|Vierz Empire}}:'''<br>850,000 men<br>4,500 AFVs<br>4,500 artillery pieces<br>2,700 tanks<br>1,800 aircraft<br>'''{{flag|North Granzery}}:'''<br>180,000 men<br>1,200 AFVs<br>1,000 artillery pieces<br>400 tanks<br>1,200 aircraft<br>'''[[Central Patyrian Cooperation Association|Others]]:'''<br>70,000 men<br>1,400 AFVs<br>900 artillery pieces<br>300 tanks<br>200 aircraft
'''{{flag|Vierz Empire}}:'''<br>850,000 men<br>7,200 AFVs<br>4,500 artillery pieces<br>1,800 aircraft
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'''{{flag|Luepola}}:'''<br>875,000 men<br>4,200 AFVs<br>3,800 artillery pieces<br>2,100 tanks<br>950 aircraft<br>'''{{flag|Vorochia}}:'''<br>295,000 men<br>1,500 AFVs<br>2,300 artillery pieces<br>800 tanks<br>530 aircraft<br>{{nowrap|{{flagu|V_SOC|name='''Militants:'''}}}}<br>120,000 men<br>800 AFVs<br>1,500 artillery pieces<br>200 tanks<br>90 aircraft
'''{{flag|Luepola}}:'''<br>675,000 men<br>4,100 AFVs<br>1,800 artillery pieces<br>550 aircraft<br>{{nowrap|{{flagu|V_SOC|name='''Militants:'''}}}}<br>30,000 men<br>320 AFVs<br>1,500 artillery pieces<br>90 aircraft
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'''Total dead: 120,000'''<br>{{nowrap|'''Total wounded: 400,000'''}}
'''Total dead: 60,000'''<br>{{nowrap|'''Total wounded: 400,000'''}}
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'''Total dead: 275,000'''<br>{{nowrap|'''Total wounded: 620,490'''}}
'''Total dead: 275,000'''<br>{{nowrap|'''Total wounded: 620,490'''}}
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| casualties3 = '''Total civilians killed/wounded:''' 128,000 <small><small>(est.)</small></small>
* '''Total civilians killed/wounded:''' 128,000 <small><small>(est.)</small></small>
* '''Luepola:''' 96,000 killed/wounded <small><small>(est.)</small></small>
* '''Vorochia:''' 32,000 killed/wounded <small><small>(est.)</small></small>
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The '''Luepolan War''' ({{wp|German language|Vierz}}: ''Lüpolenkrieg''), known in [[Luepola]] and [[Vorochia]] as the '''Liberation War''' ({{lang-lupl|Oslobodnočni rát|l}}; {{wpl|Ukrainian language|Vorochian}}: ''Визвольна війна''), was a war from 1979 to 1985 in Luepola and Vorochia. The conflict was fought between the [[Central Patyrian Cooperation Association]] led by the [[Vierz Empire]], and Luepola and Vorochia, who had each unilaterally withdrawn from the CPCA.
The '''Luepolan War''' ({{wp|German language|Vierz}}: ''Lüpolenkrieg'', {{lang-lupl|Ľupolski rát|l}}), was a war fought from 1979 to 1985 between the [[Vierz Empire]] and [[Luepola]].


The war was preceded by the [[March Uprising]], in which mass protests and riots led to the ousting of the pro-Vierz Luepolan leadership by sympathetic military officers and members of the [[Sliet]]. The new Luepolan government's decision to withdraw from the CPCA provoked the Vierz invasion itself, which began in the following August; the invasion was expanded during planning to also target Vorochia after its [[Vorochian Revolution|revolution]]. The war lasted for six years, ending with the [[Treaty of Skalla]], wherein Vierzland and its allies recognized the new governments of Luepola and Vorochia and agreed to withdraw from the two countries.
The war was preceded by the [[March Uprising]], in which mass protests and riots led to the ousting of the pro-Vierz Luepolan leadership by sympathetic military officers and members of the [[Sliet]]. The new Luepolan government's decision to seek defense arrangements with rival powers such as [[Federal Union of Arcadia|Arcadia]] provoked the Vierz invasion itself, which began in the following August. The war ended with the [[Treaty of Kasenberg]], wherein a defeated Luepola surrendered to the Vierz ''Reichswehr'' and submitted itself to military rule by Vierzland for eight years.


The Luepolan War remains the deadliest and most destructive war fought in [[Patyria]] since the [[Great War (Vasarden)|Great War]]. The war is considered as the second phase of the [[Luepolan Spring]], as well as the climax of the [[Silent War]], as the weakening of Vierzland's economy and military over the course of the war hastened the breakdown of the CPCA and the start of the [[Vierz Revolution]].
The Luepolan War remains the deadliest and most destructive war fought in [[Erisia]] since the Second Great War.


==Background==
==Background==


==Course of the war==
==Course of the war==
===1979: Vierz Invasion===
{{main|Operation Modi}}
===1980: Halting of the Vierz offensive===
===1981-82: Stalemate and increased foreign involvement===
===1982-83: Luepolan Insurgency intesifies===
===1984: Luepolan Counteroffensive===
{{main|Operation Urakan}}
===1985: Second Stalemate and Peace Negotiations===


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==


==Foreign Involvement==
==Foreign Involvement==


===Supporting Vierzland===
===Supporting Vierzland===
While [[Operation Modi]] was undertaken primarily by Vierzland, most of the CPCA's key members also participated in various capacities. [[North Granzery]] was the largest contributor to the war effort apart from Vierzland itself, however heavy casualties and the unpopularity of the war in North Granzery was one of the greatest contributing factors in the abdication of [[István Viktor Esterházy|King István Viktor]] and the ensuing reunification of Granzery. Additionally, [[Tarchist Vyzinia|Vyzinia]], [[Zacotia]], [[Plosenia]], and [[Tanavia]] each contributed military contingents, while [[Rentmeesterschap period|Borland]] and [[Lairea]] supported the war diplomatically. Vierzland's key non-CPCA ally [[Savland]] did not contribute to the Vierz effort.
===Supporting Luepola and Vorochia===
The [[Aitic Union]], despite facing social unrest of its own against the communist government, became the primary foreign military supplier of Luepola and Vorochia during the war until its dissolution in 1984. The Aitic Union's aid consisted firstly of small arms smuggled across the Vorochian border and with humanitarian shipments to Bosunija, but later grew to include tanks and aircraft, broken down and shipped to Luepola and Vorochia, along with military advisors. In 2006, it was revealed in a series of interviews with former partisan and other insurgent commanders that they were supplied with weapons and training from Aitic military personnel operating in Vierz-controlled territory.


The [[Continental Security Organization]], with the exception of [[South Granzery]], also supplied Luepolan and Vorochian forces with weapons, ammunition, and advisors deployed to Bosunija. In addition, the TBN Military Exercise hosted in [[Apelia]] in 1983, which brought the CSO and CPCA to the brink of war, forced Vierzland to withdraw units from Luepola to deploy to the Apelian border in anticipation of a possible war, relieving pressure on Luepolan and Vorochian forces and enabling them to mount a sweeping counteroffensive. Though never officially acknowledged as such, the timing of the exercise is widely recognized to have been a deliberately calculated geopolitical maneuver by the CSO.
===Supporting Luepola===
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[[Category:Regnum]]
[[Category:Wars in Vasarden]]
[[Category:Wars in Regnum]]
[[Category:Luepolan Spring]]
[[Category:Silent War]]
[[Category:Luepola]]
[[Category:Luepola]]
[[Category:Vierzland]]
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{{Luepola Topics}}
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Revision as of 00:18, 12 June 2023

Luepolan War
Vierz Panzer-80 in Mograč, 1980
Luepolan convoy entering Voitz, 1979
Luepolan communist militant in Prishek, 1982
Luepolan anti-aircraft fire during a Vierz air raid on Rostva, 1980
Vierz artillery gun firing on Notok, 1979
Date7 August 1979 – 8 July 1985
(5 years, 11 months and 1 day)
Location
Result

Vierz victory:

Belligerents
 Vierz Empire  Luepola
 Communist Militants
Commanders and leaders
Vierz Empire Victor IV
Vierz Empire Stefan Vogt
Vierz Empire Uwe Scholz
Luepola Emil Ivanušić
Luepola Ratimir Vuković †
Luepola Branimir Raganović
 Mladen Barišić †
 Luka Marinković †
Strength
 Vierz Empire:
850,000 men
7,200 AFVs
4,500 artillery pieces
1,800 aircraft
 Luepola:
675,000 men
4,100 AFVs
1,800 artillery pieces
550 aircraft
 Militants:
30,000 men
320 AFVs
1,500 artillery pieces
90 aircraft
Casualties and losses
Total dead: 60,000
Total wounded: 400,000
Total dead: 275,000
Total wounded: 620,490
Total civilians killed/wounded: 128,000 (est.)

The Luepolan War (Vierz: Lüpolenkrieg, LuepolanĽupolski rát), was a war fought from 1979 to 1985 between the Vierz Empire and Luepola.

The war was preceded by the March Uprising, in which mass protests and riots led to the ousting of the pro-Vierz Luepolan leadership by sympathetic military officers and members of the Sliet. The new Luepolan government's decision to seek defense arrangements with rival powers such as Arcadia provoked the Vierz invasion itself, which began in the following August. The war ended with the Treaty of Kasenberg, wherein a defeated Luepola surrendered to the Vierz Reichswehr and submitted itself to military rule by Vierzland for eight years.

The Luepolan War remains the deadliest and most destructive war fought in Erisia since the Second Great War.

Background

Course of the war

Aftermath

Foreign Involvement

Supporting Vierzland

Supporting Luepola