Voshagne

Voshagne
Historical region
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Country	Atmora
State	Lieseltania
Largest city	Novigrad
Area
• Total	1,157,271 km2 (446,825 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	11,176,688
• Density	9.7/km2 (25/sq mi)
Demonym	Voshanees/ese

Voshagne (/vɔshəni/; Voshanskya: Voshana; Vozhski: Vashań [vɔʂanʲ]) is a region of northwestern Lieseltania, comprosing of the provinces of Brest, Brunna, Castamere, Stakena, and Novigrad. It has an area of 1,157,271 km² (446,825 sq mi) and 6.2 million people.

Geography

The Voshagne is composed mostly around the Northern Great Lakes: the Black Lake being the largest lake at 36,304 km² the northern end of Novigrad, Lake Tuya in Brunna being the second largest at 20,132 km², Lake Karas at 8,252 km², and Lake Halden at 3,323 km² in Brest. The Voshagne consists mainly of the Lieseltanian boreal forest and the northern range of the Diebal Mountains along the state border with Huldenberg with largest peak bein Shaakleinberg with elevation of 21,098 metres. The northern parts of the Voshagne of Brunna, Brest, and Stakena border with the Sednese Sea, the provinces bordering with the Sednese Sea are filled with bogs and lakes and due it's proximity to the Kruotic Ocean and experience harsh winters.

History

Interior War

Main article: Atmoran Interior War

Following the end of the Third Voshan War and the Atmoran Civil War in 29 June 1946. The reestablished royalist government in Alexandria under the newly elected Chancellor Pieter-Bas Peusschers sought to bring stability back to the war-torn country with the disarmament of the royalist army and the partisans. However promiment communist and fascist figures in the Voshagne refused to put down their arms. Prominent communists Clemens Brunovsky and Emiel Morsinkhoff of the Nationale Volksweer rejected the demands of the Federal government in 17 May 1981. Brunovsky along with the Nationale Volksweer (NVU) rose in revolt against the federal government over the continued presence of the Nationale Volksunie the fascist terrorists in the Voshagne.

The leading cause of the communist revolts in the Voshagne are often pointed towards the death and rape of Christien Rostafiński in Novigrad. Christien Rostafiński was abducted by NVU members Karel Schaper and Jurrian Pellenkoft from her apartment in Novigrad on 13 May 1981. The Federal Police failed to act when Rostafiński's family notified them of her abduction. On the morning of 17 May, Rostafiński's body was discovered desecrated and hanging by a local couple outside of the St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral. Outrage over the discovery of her remains and how Schaper and Pellenkoft desecrated her before her death. Ultimately led to Brunovsky and the National Volksweer to declare the formation of the Novigradskya Socialist Republic and the firefights in the city between the communists and fascist militia.

For six days the city of Novigard and the outlying municipalities erupted into civil unrest. The Royal Lieseltanian Police lost control of the situation in Novigrad on 21 May, with government forces retreating to the provincial capital district. Queen's Commissioner Alexander Sernesky requested from Alexandria for military support to quell the unrest in Novigrad. On the 23 May the 5th Armoured Infantry Division, 26th Mountain Brigade, Regiment Parachutisten, Regiment Koninklijke Stoottroepen, and the 109 Commando's Mariniersbrigade arrived in Novigrad with a state of martial law only leaving on the 27 May with deaths of Clemens Brunovsky of the NVW and Jan Lavie of the NVU at the hands of Atmoran security forces bringing peace to the region again.

Modern era

Winter War

Main article: Winter War (Halkeginia)

Demographics

Ethnic groups

The Voshagne is home to the Wends, Diebalsky, Wielzians, and the Milzenany along with the Nahane, Athabaskan, Mesties and the Inuit peoples, the recognised indigenous peoples of Northern Lieselania. Additionally the region is primarily inhabited by the Voshany and the Atmoran Noordlings, who came about settling with the Noordnederzetting along with Deportation of the Lieseltanian Slavs in the 18th century.

Prior to the northern settlements and the conquest of the Voshagne by Lieseltania the Slavic clans and the indigenous nations of the Voshagne resided in the Great Lakes Region. With the slavs primarily residing on the eastern banks of the lakes with the indigenous having the western highlands.

The largest ethnic groups in the Voshagne are 51.7% as Atmorans (3.225 million), 17.5% as Voshany (1.091 million), 14.3% as Slavs (892k), 13.76% as Indigenous (858k), 1.2% as Mizuhese (74.5k), and others (1.52%)

Religion

Religion in Voshagne (2016)

  Catholic Church (31.6%)

  Protestant/other Christian (23.4%)

  Not religious (26.1%)

  Judaism (7.3%)

  Islam (1.7%)

  Other religions (1.3%)

  Not stated (8.6%)