Peravên Far
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Peravên Far
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| Country | Liberto-Ancapistan |
| Capital | Capitoli |
| Government | |
| • Body | Representative Assembly of Peravên Far |
| • Prime Minister | Ilena Valogli (Progress) |
| • Governing parties | Progress / Peravên Far Party |
| • House of Asagi seats | 14 (of 115) |
| • House of Commons seats | 62 (of 520) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 89,829 km2 (34,683 sq mi) |
| Population (2025) | |
| • Total | 8,272,000 |
| • Density | 92/km2 (240/sq mi) |
Peravên Far, also known by its anglicised name Far Coast, is a province in the Basaqastan region of Liberto-Ancapistan. Covering 89,829 km2, it is the country's 7th largest federal subject by land area, and the 5th largest by population (8.27 million in 2025). Its capital city is Capitoli; other major cities include Devisgund and Maritere. Peravên Far is bordered by the provinces of Rojava-Navenda and Basaqastan Hundir.
The modern province of Peravên Far is largely contiguous with the historic region of Farstan, and was previously an independent republic before the unification of Liberto-Ancapistan. The province has the largest population of ethnic Santians in Basaqastan, comprising 32% of the population; ethnic Basaqastanians form a majority, most of whom speak the distinctive Far dialect. As a result, Peravên Far is the only federal subject to be officially trilingual, with Standard Basaqese, the Far dialect and Santian language all having official status.
Peravên Far contains the largest container port in western Promeridona, the Port of Devisgund, and remains an important location in maritime travel due to its proximity to the Strait of Devisgund, a major shipping lane. Tourism is important to the province's economy, containing the northern portion of the Ciona Mountains, as well as the Confimerian lakes national park and a number of important historic sites, including the Kalar of Great Pesh, Maritere old city and Yemuce fishponds.
History
Classical period
Large permanent settlements in Peravên Far first emerged in the 2nd millennium BCE, with the emergence of the Kalar culture, named after the stone towers around which towns grew. These kalars were likely used to store grain, safe from raids which could cripple food supplies in a region with little fertile soil, and grew in size and sophistication over the centuries. Competition between competing towns would eventually result in the emergence of proto-states, by the 1st millennium BCE, expanding from the valleys of the Ciona mountains to surrounding lowlands and building multi-tower kalars. In the 6th century BCE, this process of consolidation was completed by the town of Great Pesh, which unified the northern portion of Peravên Far to establish the Kingdom of Farstan. The kingdom became one of the wealthiest and long-lived states in classial Basaqastan, with the growth of Great Pesh into an important commercial city and the increasingly monumental usage of its kalar. Exporting tin, it formed commercial network across northern Promeridona, with goods and people moving across the Qûmêşîn desert and Devisgund strait. Shortly after its establishment, the Cemsorean Kisin script was adopted by the kingdom's small bureaucracy, where it would not be replaced by the Niving script until the 1st century CE.
After the establishment of the Great Nizmstani Empire in southern Basaqastan, the Kingdom of Farstan was repeatedly invaded, but repelled several attempts and could re-establish independence in the rough terrain of the Ciona mountains. During the 2nd century CE, the kingdom was finally subjugated by the Nizmstani king Abdaman III, but local power-structures remained, and it regained total autonomy shortly afterwards. Less affected by the 3rd century eruption of Mount Birrin than southern Basaqastan, the kingdom survived the collapse of Great Nizmstan, and expanded its control to eastern Peravên Far, establishing the approximate modern-day borders of Farstan.
During the 5th century CE, commercial disputes between the kingdom and the recently united Alta Santia would eventually result in the invasion of Farstan by king Asher the Conqueror, who conquered lowland Farstan and destroyed much of Great Pesh, establishing the first incarnation of the Santian Empire. By the 8th century CE, upland areas of the region had been brought under Santian influence.
Santian rule
Under early Santian rule, local town-centred power structures remained largely in place, though the usage of certain families and lineages as delegates by the Santian state would increasingly lead to the stratification of power in a hereditary nobility. The destruction and abandonment of Great Pesh ended the practice of Kalar-building in Peravên Far, which had become ceremonial and monumental by the time of conquest.
During the 909-930 Great Rebellion against Santian rule, began in Nizmstan, there was little anti-Santian activity in Peravên Far, though the region was conquered by rebel armies in 914-915. After the re-imposition of Santian authority, eastern Peravên Far came under a stricter form of imperial administration, while the Ciona mountains remained an area of little central control. Repeated attempts to impose rule would ultimately result in the establishment of the city of Capitoli, centrally located in the mountains, in the early 11th century, as a garrison town. Despite its remote location, the city would grow into one of the largest in the region after becoming the seat of the Sabano (governor) of Farstan.
With the emergence of a larger Santian empire in the 11th century, central Farstan increasingly came to be used as a muster point by Santian armies, being the easternmost part of western Promeridona from which the island could be crossed from north to south with access to a stable supply of water. Due to this, as well as the commercial importance of a growing north-south trade, the area came to be home to a significant number of ethnic Santian migrants, serving the large trading communities and military concentrations. Santian settlement would come to be encouraged by rulers, with the foundation of the royal city of Maritere at the muster point. This would begin the long history of Santian settlement in Peravên Far, with Santians forming an increasingly significant portion of the region's population and elite.
After the breakdown of Santian central authority in the early 12th century, Peravên Far came under the control of the ethnic-Santian Boranid Dynasty, formerly a family heavily involved in administration in Capitoli. Under Boranid rule, the region experienced weakening economic fortunes, but also increasing state centralisation and the Santianisation of the elite. By the re-establishment of Santian authority in 1321, Peravên Far was a central and Santian-led part of the empire, and would remain so for much of the remainder of the empire.
In the 16th and 17th century, growing economic fortunes in the Peravên Far region aided the growth of Devisgund as a port, as well as the small size of Maritere's harbour. By the 19th century, it was the largest city in Peravên Far, and would come to dominate the eastern portion of the region.
Republic of Farstan
Through the early 19th century, the emergence of the printing press would lead to an increasingly literate and well-connected ethnic-Basaqastanian population in Peravên Far. This, as well as commercialisation and the ideological influence of Santian liberalism, formed the basis for a 'national' middle class. The early nationalist movement in Peravên Far was split between Basaqastanian nationalists and Farstani nationalists, who sought to promote the Far dialect and create an independent Peravên Far with a separate national identity to the wider Basaqastan.
In 1869, after the breakout of revolts in other parts of the collapsing Santian empire, nationalist intellectuals came together in Capitoli to declare an independent Republic of Farstan, taking advantage of urban food insecurity to provoke an uprising and eject Santian administration from the city. This began the Farstani War of Independence, part of the wider Northern Revolt (Basaqastan) against Santian rule. Though the revolutionaries repeatedly failed to extent their control out of the vicinity of Capitoli, the Tricolour revolution in Santia prompted negotiations with most major rebel groups, and Peravên Far would gain its independence, though the region around Maritere would remain under Santian rule as the Maritere strip, splitting independent Farstan into two portions. Modelled after the Republic of Libertarya, the Republic of Farstan would be a representative democracy under Mirayan Elci, who pursued Farstani nationalist and anti-Santian policies.
During the early 20th century, the Devisgund area would experience industrialisation, connecting to the global economy. However, it remained relatively agrarian in comparison to the economies of Alta Santia and southern Basaqastan, becoming grounds of competition between the leading powers of both regions. During the 1930s, the Farstani government increasingly swung between Farstani nationalist and Basaqastanian nationalist wings, contributing to a weakening of political institutions and increasing conflict with Alta Santia.
In 1950, the Republic of Farstan was invaded and occupied by Alta Santia over the course of three days, beginning the Great Santian War. By the end of the war, Peravên Far was liberated by an alliance of Basaqastanian states, who set up a government of exiled former ministers. This new government negotiated the unification of Liberto-Ancapistan, though nationalist elements preserved a significant degree of autonomy for the region in an attempt to create a space for the re-creation of an independent Farstan. However, pro-Basaqastanian forces would dominate Peravên Far's government in the early years of unification.