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Republic of Chenes République des Chênes(Audonic) ᒫᒪᐃᐧᓂᑐᐃᣟᐣ(Imowin)
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Ville de Augusta
Largest city	Piscataquis
Official languages	Audonic
Ethnic groups (2019)	Chênique
Demonym(s)	Chênique
Government	Federal parliamentary republic
• President	Renée Mitterrand
• Prime Minister	Jacques Riel
Establishment
• Augusta Convention	March 1813
• War of Augusta	1824-1827
• Penobscot Conventions	1912
• Current constitution adopted	1914
Currency	Chênique Pehikan (CQP, P.)
Date format	MM/DD/YYYY
Driving side	right
Calling code	+56
Internet TLD	.cq

Chenes (Audonic: Chênes), officially the Republic of Chenes (Audonic: République des Chênes) and referred to by the Nehiyawak as Mâmawinitowin (Imowin: ᒫᒪᐃᐧᓂᑐᐃᣟᐣ) is a sovereign nation located in Norumbia. It borders Moxaney and Awasan to the north, Mniohuta to the west and Gristol-Serkonos to the south. It is bordered in the east by the North Thalassan Sea. Ville de Augusta is the capital of Chenes with Piscataquis serving as the largest city and Penobscot as the declared cultural center of the country. Approximately 19.7 million people inhabit Chenes, with the majority identifying as Chênique.

Chênes as a political entity began upon the settlement of the land by various unaffiliated merchants, tradesmen and people that primarily spoke Audonic that sought to create trading posts and a new living along the Norumbrian Coast. Before the arrival of Audonic settlers, the land was already considered to be under the dominion of various unaffiliated tribes that culturally belonged primarily to the Nehiyawak people. The most dominant of these tribes that persists into their language was the Maskwacis Nehiyawak. When the Audonic settlers arrived in Maskwacis Nehiyawak land, they were initially greeted by the Sagadahoc, a splintered tribe that primarily inhabited the northern area where the Audonic settlers arrived, who would later come to be term themselves as the Chênique.

Etymology

The term Chêne comes from the Audonic word for oak tree. The land that the Nehiyawak inhabited were dominated particularily by white oak trees, which the new Audonic settlers named the land after. The Nehiyawak term for the oak tree is Mistikominâhtik (Imowin: ᒥᐢᑎᑯᒥᓈᐦᑎᐠ), but the term is not used by the native Nehiyawak. The term used is Mâmawinitowin (Imowin: ᒫᒪᐃᐧᓂᑐᐃᣟᐣ), translated to as Confederation. Within the Augusta Convention, the first establishing document, the Nehiyawak were considered to have unified with the Audonic settlers, now the Chênique, under what was understood to be a Confédération.

The term Chênique was initially proposed during the Second Augusta Convention, but was rejected in favor of pionnières. Audonic settlers and their descendents were referred to as pionnières until the Penobscot Mercantile Revolution, a cultural and societal revolution that sought for the integration of the Nehiyawak and the descendants of the Audonic settlers in 1823.