Library:Eastern Belisaria Timeline

Eastern Belisaria is an area located on the continent of Belisaria in Ajax. It is made up of the nations around the Kulpanitsan Basin (Garima, Ostrozava, Drevstran, Ludvosiya), Velikoslavia, Brumen, Usezoya, and Mesogeia. Locational reference map is located under the OOC tab.

Modern polities:

  - Velikoslavia
  - Ludvosiya
  - Usezoya
  - Mesogeia
  - Ostrozava
  - Brumen
  - Drevstran
  - Nekulturnya
  - Pueramaa & Lumisaari
  - Zamorodna
  - Garima
  - Qavarjeri
  - Aureumterra

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Defunct polities:
  - Tervingia

  - Hvratztan Commonwealth

200-299

    240: the Valenii tribes of the Balrog River valley regain Tervingian overlordship after just over a century of Latin control., Southern Transkarminia

            298: Emperor Safrax IV of Tervingia converts to Alban Nazarism.

300-399

•     386: The Valenii domain begins to pay tribute to the Latin Empire despite being a part of Tervingia., Southern Transkarminia

400-499

•             425: The Tervingian Empire officially collapses.

•   425: The Kingdom of Morinia is officially founded. The Warlord Chorcus Warhand become its first monarch.

•   425: The lands of modern day Drevstran are controlled by five successor states, confederacies, or nations of Tervingia: the Azdrogets, the Alban Pentapolis, the Vestrozavans, the Dravoluds, and the White Luds.

•   441: Latins begin their conquest of Brumen

•     485: The Latin Empire splits, resulting in remnants of the Latin rule in the west and the newly formed Perateian Empire in the east.

500-599

•   510: The Goths in modern day Brumen form an alliance to drive out the Latins. While successful, internal tensions and rivalries lead to the Alliance breaking down once peace was achieved. The two main confederacy to emerge are the kingdoms of Waldreich and Sudentor.

•       510: The Duchy of Suedia is formed in the aftermath of the fracturing of Tervingia.

•   590: The kingdom of Bewahren is created. The War of the Three Nations now evolve beyond merely a conflict between Waldreich and Sudentor. This permanent state of conflicts, raids, and counter raids would continue on until 833 with the Blühen Wars against Viragstag.

700-799

•       - 730: The Nordvik Empire, a Skagish state is declared by Hæstirétt Tove I.

800-899

•   801-810: The Lushyods migrate from somewhere in modern day Ludvosiya to the shores of the Drev river. They defeat the Kingdom of Morinia in 810 and occupy the entire Furodomark and Lusatia.

•   815: Death of Gerza I, Chieftain of the Lushyods. His inheritance is divided between his two sons: Garza II inherited the Kingdom of the Lushyods while his brother Worsak I migrated with his men and cattle to the Drev river' valley where he founded the Kingdom of the Drev after converting to Aletheism.

•   820: Death of Garza II of Furöd, Lushyodorkorrag. He had only one male child: Garza III who inherited his kingdom in its entirety. Garza would, the same year, convert to Docetism officially ending the polytheism among the Lushyods.

•   831: The Kingdom of Karsko, under the Ludzic Bednář family, begins expanding into greater northern Transkarminia, fighting the chieftains of Vamo and the Ludic Holy Domain of Barderec, Northern Transkarminia

•   830: Death of Worsak I, king of the Drev. Once again, his inheritance was divided between his two sons: Gerza I of the Drev inherited the crown while Havar I received men (the Khurt-Gharmat people) and cattles. The latter would migrate southward.

•   831: Havar I found the kingdom of Viragstag in what was then known as the Northern Emptiness, Viragstag

•   834-839: First Blühen War between Viragstag and the Southern Goths Alliance. The Viragstag establishes itself as the dominion of modern day Brümen.

•       - 840: The Nordvik Empire reaches its territorial height under Hæstirétt Hathomir II.

Extent of the Nordvik Empire in 840.

•   May 842 (842-05): Karskian forces envelop Barderec and conquer it after a six-month siege, Baderia

•   February 889 (889-02): The Kingdom of Karsko wins the Vamish War, incorporating Vamo into its territories, Vamo

•   November 11, 893 (893-11-11): The King of Karsko, Libor Bednář, is ousted by an alliance of chiefly Alban Tervingo-Ludic chieftains, led by Roland Válek, Karsko

900-1000

•   - 944: Chieftain of Clan Staenmar, Dagan, succeeds from the Nordvik Empire, declaring himself Dagan I Of Bjorskóg in light of the weakning rule of Hæstirétt Tove V.

•   May 1, 950 (950-05-01): Dagan I of Bjorskóg is invited by the Grand Prince of Sveldorsk, Dragovid III, to meet the Bayarids in battle in exchange for the submission of the remainder of the Principality, Pricipality of Sveldorsk

•   December 14, 950 (950-12-14): Dagan is ordained as Grand Prince of Sveldorsk and begins building up local forces under his nine generals.

•   February 24, 951 (951-02-24): A combined Ludic and Telerian force meets Bayarid forces near the city of Kollavik on the modern day Plain of Edna. Bayarid general Badan, though initially gaining the upper hand, is finally defeated and his advance halted.

•   March 16, 951 (951-03-16): The Seige of Kollavik begins with Dagan's son Orik assailing the walls for three months before the Bayarid garrison surrendered in May of 951

•   August 7, 951 (951-08-07): Dagan moves his court to the newly captured city of Kollavik, proclaiming the Principality of Kollavik before renaming Sveldorsk to Ustengrav in honor of his father's birth village, Principality of Kollavik.

•   April 17, 953 (953-04-17) – November 18, 965 (965-11-18): Dagan begins a series of campaigns against the Panagyuchik Horde, subsequently driving them back to the Grenzal Forest. Several major cities were captured, such as Kolomna, Glisk, and Volsk.

•   October 24, 966 (966-10-24) – January 7, 967 (967-01-07): Forces of the Panagyuchik Horde halt Dagan's war weary forces at the Battle of X, forcing him to retreat back to the fortress of Kolvun near present day Engels. Instead of pressing forward, Dagan ceased hostilities and instituted the Nine Marches, awarding each of his nine generals and their clans a fortified city and the lands around it.

•   January 10, 967 (967-01-10) – August 19, 986 (986-08-19): A period of instability in the neighboring Western Horde and efforts by Dagan to strengthen Kollavik defenses resulted in a period of relative stability known as the Years of Plenty, where raids from Bayarid forces were relatively sparse and repulsed by the fortified marches. Dagan's death in August of 986 marked the continuation of his dynasty with his son Orik becoming the Grand Prince of Kollavik.

•   980: The last Virakorrag is killed in battle against Waldreich. The Viragstag is broken down in a series of kingdoms granted to Gothic lineages from Waldreich who had supported Waldreich’ monarchs in their wars.Among these, the kingdom of Hoffnung, Viragstag

•     990: First war between Hoffnung and the Kingdom of the Drev for the control of the Kastory Mountains.

1000-1099

•   December 25, 1006 (1006-12-25): Vladimir I marries Atrea of Perateia, making official the conversion of the Principality of Kollavik to Orthodox Christianity

•   1014: Worsak IV of the Drev was murdered because of his Iconoclast sympathies, and his weak son, Worsak V of the Drev, was crowned under the patronage of his first cousin once removed, the Duke Havar of Vizstran, champion of the iconodulists., Kingdom of the Drev

•   1020: Death of Havar of Vizstran. His son, Istvan of Vistran became the new Duke of Vizstran and took over his father's posission as strongman of the Kingdom of the Drev and leader of the Iconodulist faction. He was murdered the same year in broad daylight in Angrast by Iconoclasts. Margrave Karro, a known iconoclast lord, gathered an army and marched on Angrast where he forced King Worsak V of the Drev to appoint him as new Mayor of the Palace. The Iconodulists leaders were either arrested or forced to flee the capital, Kingdom of the Drev

•   1022: Worsak V of the Drev died heirless. Mervoret Karro, who already controlled the court, decided to elevate his own lands from a Margrave to a Kingdom of the Sevr. Count Yarvos, de-facto leader of the Iconodulists, refused to recognize Karro's new titles and proclaimed himself Regent before elevating his own titles to Dukedom. It's the start of the Long Ikonkivoyra, Kingdom of the Drev

•   May 1, 1072 (1072-05-01): The Chalkidinos dynasty is established in Mesogeia, with Michael XII's expulsion of the remnants of the Bayarids.

1300-1399

•     Spring 1332: The Great Qavar Host united under Tukar begins migrating westward.

•         Spring 1336: The Great Qavar Host reaches the eastern borders of the Ludic principalities.

•       February 27, 1351 (1351-02-27) – December 25, 1352 (1352-12-25): Enlisted by the Principality of Kollavik, the Kvor Host wrests control of Zamorodna from the Duchy of Baderia.

1400-1499

•   January 22, 1400 (1400-01-22): The former exarchate of Greznea becomes independent of the Mesogeian empire after centuries of imperial rule, following an armed uprising and ensuing conflict termed the Greznean War of Independence.

•   March 14, 1474 (1474-03-14): Kosmas II is forced to abdicate at ten years after the military centric policies of his predecessor causes the Great Peasant Revolt of 1474 from excessive taxation.

•   April 6, 1474 (1474-04-06): Vitomir I the Lance is proclaimed by the Council of Nine as the Grand Prince of Kollavik and immediately announces support for his wife, Eudokia of Perateia, in the Perateian succession dispute in the wake of the death of Philip III.

•   August 12, 1476 (1476-08-12): Vitomir I the Lance signs the Gilded Age Proclamation, which unifies the Nine Marches of the Principality of Kollavik under a new polity called "Velikoslavia".

•     August 12, 1476 (1476-08-12): The region of Zamorodna is incorporated in the Tsardom of Velikoslavia as a fylke administered by Vissivald I.

•     April 1478 (1478-04) – August 1481 (1481-08): The Kvor Revolt leads to armed conflict between Kvors and Luds over the former's religious freedom. The conflict is concluded with the intervention of the Tsar, resulting in disbandment of the Great Kvor Host in exchange for religious freedom for Jews in Zamorodna.

•     September 1486 (1486-09): Vitomir I of Velikoslavia begins the invasion of the Duchy of Baderia, citing religious persecution of the Orthodox population, in what would become known as the War of Orthodox Reclamation.

1600-1699

•       - October 12, 1670 (1670-10-12): The Panagyuchik Horde surrenders to Marshal Ivan Alovich at the Battle of Sarai, resulting in the partitioning of the country by Mesogeia and Velikoslavia under the terms of the Treaty of Triaditza.

•     - May 1, 1642 (1642-05-01): The last king of the Hvratztan Commonwealth, Jaromír II, weds his daughter Eliza of Voronzeh to Vitomir II, resulting in the remaining territories being absorbed into Velikoslavia.

•   - 1690: The Grand Duke of Yugstran die childless. Yaropolik, maternal cousin of the Grand Duke, claim the title and is supported by the Tsar and the Aletheic Church. But following the succession law, Farza IV, King of the Lushyodorstag, paternal cousin of the Duke, was the legitimate heir. But because he was already the ruler of an independent country and was a Docetian, he was unpopular with both the Tsar and the local aristocracy. Farza IV used military might to assert his claim, provoking the Yugstranese War of Succession.

•   - 1694: Yaropolik dies at the Battle of Angrast. Farza IV entered the city afterward and officially converted to Aletheism with the city' Presbyter presiding the ceremony. This double event allowed the Tsar to honorably recognize Farza IV's right to the Grand Duchy of Yugstran and the Principality of Drevstran.

1700-1799

Map of Central and East Belisaria in 1760

•   1725: The Kingdoms of Pueramaa and Lumisaari join together in a personal union, bringing Lumisaari into a de facto state of vassaldom under the Velikoslavian tsar.
•                 March 18, 1770 (1770-03-18): The Thirty Years War begins with the Velikoslavian surprise attack and seizure of the Mesogeian controlled port of Vonozeh in modern day Ludvosiya. The Mesogeian empire formally declares war on Velikoslavia five days later on 23 March, just days after Mesogeian New Year.

•     May 23, 1771 (1771-05-23): The Zamorodnian Hetmanate secedes from Velikoslavia, establishing an independent Kvor nation.

1800-1899

•   April 14, 1800 (1800-04-14): Dzhuvenestan gains independence after the Treaty of Pharopoli is signed. Michalis, a former spurned Mesogeian prince, rallies an army against his former homeland on behalf of Dzhuvenestan.
•                 June 9, 1802 (1802-06-09): The Thirty Years War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Alexandropolis. Both empires are left heavily weakened and territories begin to break away.

•       June 9, 1810 (1810-06-09) – October 2, 1816 (1816-10-02): The Ludvosiyan Revolutionary War begins as the southern territories that make up modern day Ludvosiya declare independence from the weakened and nearly bankrupt empires, which results in a six year long conflict.

•   July 4, 1810 (1810-07-04) – July 29, 1810 (1810-07-29): Farza VI, King of the Lushyodorstag abdicate as Grand Duke of Yugstran and abandon Angrast to the Parliaments who proclaim their independence from Velikoslavia. Two weeks later, the Parliaments invites Farza VI to rule once more as a Constitutional Monarch over Drevstran and Yugstran to avoid a potential repression from the Empire. Farza VI accept and re-occupy all of modern Drevstran without a fight. The Triple Crown is born.

•   1819: Pueramaa establishes itself as an independent kingdom after negotiations with Velikoslavia to avoid another full-scale war. Lumisaari remains in union with Pueramaa.

•       July 19, 1820 (1820-07-19) – January 10, 1822 (1822-01-10): The Velikoslavian Civil War begins, resulting in the fracture of the Orlov-Nikomedis Dynasty, which is dethroned, resulting in the independence of Nekulturnya. The nation of Usezoya also declares independence in 1823. The conflict ends when the Treaty of Voronze is signed.

1900-1999

•   1908 (1908) – January 30, 1910 (1910-01-30): Civil unrest between left and right wing paramilitary groups in Zamorodna leads to the elimination of bonded servitude and the political polarization of the stanytsy.
•         March 5, 1922 (1922-03-05): The First Partisans' War begins.
•         November 16, 1928 (1928-11-16): The First Partisans' War ends with the Treaty of Potens.
•       February 14, 1953 (1953-02-14): Ostrozava and Merovia launch their invasion of occupied Rheigen, beginning the Second Partisans' War.
•           February 14, 1953 (1953-02-14): The Belisarian Cold War begins with Velikoslavian support of Aureumterra during the Second Partisans' War being matched with Ludvosiyan support of Ostrozava and the Dalibor Regime.
•   March 28, 1954 (1954-03-28) - July 19, 1955 (1955-07-19): Ostro-Merovian forces inflict a series of defeats on Hvalish troops, liberating Rheigen successfully.
•       June 6, 1957 (1957-06-06): Velikoslavia officially crosses the border into Baderia and launches Operation Ragnarok, formally declaring war on Ostrozava.
•       October 15, 1963 (1963-10-15): Ostrozava and Velikoslavia sign the Treaty of Barderec, officially ending the Second Partisans' War and establishing the 10-Mile Disarmament Zone that still exists today.
•     September 22, 1983 (1983-09-22): Ludvosiya and Velikoslavia sign the Suzdal Accords in Suzdal in Ludvosiya, formally ending the Belisarian Cold War and setting the framework for normalizing relations between the two nations.

2000-Present

•     June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11): Alexis V officially marries Theodora of Mesogeia, further cementing the allied status of the two nations.