Nordewald

Nordewald
State
Kinderlanden Of Nordewald
Nickname:  The Apple State
Motto:  May the North Forever Stand
Anthem: A La Gretsky
Country	United Republic of Aurelia
Admitted to the Union	()
Largest city	Schnowald
Largest county or equivalent	Scump
Largest metro and urban areas	Schnowald
Government
• Governor	Sarah Vanernickel
• [[Lieutenant Governor of Nordewald|]]	Adam Darris
Legislature	Senate of Nordewald
• Upper house	{{{Upperhouse}}}
• Lower house	{{{Lowerhouse}}}
U.R. senators	Harold Valden, Simon Erflough, Ivan Relykosovssy, David Grossman
U.R. House delegation	9 (list)
Lowest elevation (Meridian Ocean)	0ft ft (0m m)
Population
• Total	4,250,000
• Rank	8th
Demonym	Nordewalders
Language
• Official language	Hanseatic
• Spoken language	Hanseatic, Elianite, Tribian
Time zone	Hanseatic Standard Time

Nordewald is the second least populated of the Hanseatic Kinderlandens. Located in the far north of Hansa, it borders Mitteland and Anseatia to the south. Nordewald has a coastline on the Meridian Ocean to the east. Covering (X) and with ~4 Million residents as of 2020, it is the (X) and (X) in area and population.

Nordewald is nicknamed the apple state due to the large prevelence of apples grown in the state. Nordewaldenhanse is known for its apples with over 50 varieties being invented at the university of Nordewaldenhanse. Historically Nordewald was the birthplace of Hansan resistance against the Daresian empire with Raddeussia being based in Schnowald. Later on Nordewald was heavily Elianite. Throughout the middle ages, the Drupe and Hanseatic trade leagues fought over the territory with the Hansa becoming victorious. Due to its low number of Matheiests Nordewald largely escaped the wars of reformation and exported a lot of timber to supply the growing empire during the Wilsonian era. During the Great War Nordewald had an instrumental role in overthrowing the empire and founding the republic and subsequent federation.

Historically the Nordewalder economy has been dominated by agriculture, timber, mining and finance. Traditionally Nordewald has been the epicenter of the Hanseatic ship building industry and supplier of timber. Nordewald is known for farming a large number of fruit such as apples and cherries. Due to its position between the Drupe and Hansa Schnowald became a booming trade hub due to its politically neutral nature. Nordewald is flanked on the far east and west with large iron deposits. However there is much debate between the enviromentalist movement and remaining iron deposits. In the modern day there are 20 of the top 100 Hanseatic companies are based in Nordewald.

Etymology

The named Nordewald comes from the Old Hansan word Nard which comes from the Santee word for left due to the direction when facing the rising sun. This is combined with the Old Hansan word Wald which means wood. Wald has an unknown origin.

History

Antiquity

Nordewald has been occupied by humans since the stone age however little is known about this period. Due to its geography far from the Littenfluss Nordewald was largely free of the santee culture and developed its own unique ancient culture. However written history in the region starts with the Daresian conquest in the classical period. Daresian control of Nordewald waas characterized by moving deported Osrelians to the frontier. In Daresian times the region was known as Anseatia Minor.

With the Daresians moving people here the region developed a distinctly Elianite culture that would come to represent the region even today. Though the Daresians founded cities such as modern day St Dylan and built roads and infrastructure the people felt neglected and various clashes on the border with other Hanseatic tribes was common.

In Catsium (Schnowald) rose the legendary "founder of Hansa" Raddaseus. Under Raddaseus a new Kingdom was carved out as the Daresian empire rapidly fell. Though Raddaseus died in 435 AD, his subsequent sons were hugely sucessful in conquering most of Hansa, reaching its territorial peak in 576. During the period from the 580s to the 650s the Kingdom stagnated and decentralised until the death of Ardien III in 666 which started a chain of events known as the Crisis of the 7th Century, which led to the fall of Raddeussia.

Elianite Hansa

Eventually in the town of Ketzern a new Kingdom rose that would also dominate Hansa. Roger I was the first leader of Ketzern and founded the Byerd Dynasty. The Byerd dynasty sought to reunite Hansa however did not accomplish much. When the dynasty ended in 810 Raymond Kyerzen I (now known as Raymond I). Compared to the Byerds the Kyerzens were vastly more successful reaching a new territorial peak under Andrew I in 900. However disaster came during the Harchlianian Invasion in the early 900s.