Chyhyryn War

Chyhyryn War
Part of Great War
(clockwise from top left) Vinalian cavalry in 1929. Remains of the Velkarichka Library following Ardesian shelling. Vinalian soldiers around Casimirsk in 1930. Ardesian soldiers storming houses during the Battle of Catherinsk.
Date 19 July 1925 - 3 August 1930 (5 years, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Vinalia Status Ardesian victory -Treaty of Velkarichka signed -Vinalian lands south of the Chyhyryn annexed into Ardesia -Return to pre-war borders after Ardesian defeat in the Great War
Belligerents
Ardesia Supported by Entente Gaullica	File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Vinalia Supported by Grand Alliance Soravia Aucurian Republic
Commanders and leaders
Dinis Montecara Alberte Goulart Martim Gouveia Dinis Luz	File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Dymtro Antonov File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Mykhaylo Baibuza File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Eric Hodza
Strength
Ardesia 426,000-540,000 (Summer 1925) 735,000 (1930)	File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Vinalia 250,000 (1925) 550,000 (1930)
Casualties and losses
Ardesia 113,000 dead (from battle or disease) 352,000 wounded 36,274 missing	File:FirstRepofVinFlag.png Vinalia 120,000 dead 250,000-370,000 casualties 140,000 dead. 273,000 casualties 1930 Official Report 130,826 dead. 293,000 casualties Melynk 193,390 dead. 353,000 casualties Ivanov
98,019 killed overall ≥900,000 internally displaced & ~1,740,000 refugees

The Chyhyryn War, known in Vinalia as the War of Humiliation (Soravian: Війна приниження; Viyna Prynyzhennya) took place between Ardesia and Vinalia from 19 July 1925 to 3 August 1930. Beginning as a local conflict between Ardesia and Vinalia it became part of the Great War after 1927. Internal instability and acceptable terms led to Vinalia signing the Treaty of Velkarichka and ending the war in 1930. The unpopular peace would later lead to the First Vinalian Civil War within 4 months of the wars end.

Background

Template:Events leading to the Great War (Kylaris) The territorial dispute stemmed from disagreements between Ardesia and Vinalia as to the nature of the border, with Ardesia claiming Colonial Poveliann claims which established the border at the Chyhyryn, while Vinalia supported the status quo established at the Congress of Cislania which gave the Colony of Vinalia lands up to the Meka River. Paretia which had annexed Ardesia, never claimed the former borders as did the any Ardesian entities until the Ardesian state in 1914.

Povelian explorers and settlers had arrived to the Tzapotlan Empire in 1523, easily defeating it and claiming the land. Povelia made wide claims to territorial control as was common at the time. Vinalia which had been discovered in 1568 by Soravian explorer Afanasij Orlev, quickly made similar large claims. When Grigori Kosh arrived at the mouth of the Chyhyryn in 1570, he too made a claim to the entire region, and founded the city of Catherinsk. At the time the area between the Meka and Chyhyryn rivers were still considered to be the frontier of Povelian settlement, and was inhabited mostly by indigenous rump states. Conflict began to arose as to the overlapping claims by both states as settlers began competing for land and alliances in the Chyhyryn river, but the number of settlers of either Euclean power were limited. Povelia clarified the claim in 1573 by stating that Novo Povelia reached all the way to the Chyhyryn river, while Soravia never clarified their claims. Rapid expansion of the sugar industry in both countries brought renewed interest to the region, and Povelian settlers founded the town of X on the southern bank of the river, opposite to Catherinsk. In 1620 Soravian interests in the region grew, and the Soravian crown paid for the settlement of 2,000 people on the river basin.

Ardesian Invasion (1925-1926)