Gorabo
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The Caliphate of Gorabo الغرافه خلافة | |
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| Motto: "ما اوى شيء الى شيء ازين من حلم الى علم" "No two things have been combined better than knowledge and patience" | |
| Anthem: "بلادي، لك حبي وفؤادي" "My homeland, you have my love and my heart" | |
| Capital and | Al-Zohrah |
| Official languages | Arabic |
| Ethnic groups (2015) | 92% Arab, 4% Mehrani, 3% Kuhnat Alsahra, 1% Other |
| Religion (2015) | 95% Muslim (all sects), 4% Christian, 1% Other |
| Demonym(s) | Goraboese |
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Caliph | Abu Bakr VI |
• Prime Minister | Muhammad Safar |
| Legislature | Chamber of Popular Representatives |
| House of Advisors | |
| House of Delegates | |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 120,938,102 |
• 2015 census | 119,017,673 |
| HDI | 0.880 very high |
| Time zone | UTC-3 |
| Driving side | left |
| Internet TLD | .gb |
Gorabo (Arabic: الغرافه), officially the Caliphate of Gorabo (Arabic: الغرافه خلافة) is a country on the continent of Thrismari on the planet Anteria.
Etymology
The English name for Gorabo is derived from the Arabic name of Gorabo, al-Gharafa, which was in turn derived from a portmentaeu between the two rivers of Gorabo, the Ghassan, and the Aravah (in Arabic known as tha Arafa). This theory is widely agreed upon by the vast majority of etymological and archaeological experts. Archaeological evidence and old writing that has been preserved and identified shows that al-Gharafah was used as a name for the unified region of the two rivers. This name in some writings appears to be used to describe the lands of all of the two rivers, going as far to their sources in modern-day Mehrava.
History
Early tribal peoples migrated to the Ghassan river valley and Aravah river valley around the 10th millennium BCE. By around 6000 BCE, a Neolithic culture took root in the Aravah and Ghassan river valleys around the same time. Predynastic cultures started to evolve independently along both the Ghassan and Aravah. Evidence of trade between the small states along the Ghassan and Aravah is present from this time, indicating that despite (at this point) being culturally distant and separated by desert, they still maintained contact with each other, such as pottery, obsidian, and various writings towards the 4th millennium BCE. The two areas began to have more syncretism in regards to culture and language. Despite this, differences still remained by the end of the 4th millennium BCE, such as the adoption of hieroglyphic-based writing systems among many of the disunited Ghassan River cultures, while the Nabataean script (a precursor to the modern Arabic script) was used in the cultures along the Aravah. Political unity would come to the Aravah first around c. 3150 BCE under the king Dilmun. The Ghassan cultures remained politically distinct and no states emerged to unify the Ghassan cultures until around c. 3000 BCE.
Spirituality played a key role in the early history of Gorabo. For much of history up till that time, the cultures of the Ghassan and Aravah were completely pagan in their beliefs and practices. Both regions had cultures which adopted animist principles, with certain natural objects like rivers, mounds, or lakes having spiritual meaning. These would vary depending on location, which created a wide variety of pagan beliefs in both river valleys. These variety of pagan beliefs were handled differently in both river valleys. As the smaller cultures vied for domination over their river valleys, they would either apporach the differing pagan traditions with tolerance or open hostility. Both approaches were used among the smaller cultures, but the approach of tolerance would prove to be the more successful one when Dilmun unified the Aravah valley. While the policies of tolerance may explain the stability of the unified Aravah kingdom and the reason local populations were willing to be a part of Dilmun's kingdom, this does not explain all of the reasons why the Aravah valley united before the Ghassan valley. While tolerant and expansionist cultures existed in the Ghassan river valley, they were unable to unify the Ghassan river valley for another 150 or so years for a variety of reasons; technological and scientific development was viewed as a more primary focus among kingdoms in the Aravah valley compared to the Ghassan valley; increased urbanization in the Aravah valley also allowed for administration and influence to come about easier for Dilmun and his kingdom in the Aravah compared to the small states in the Ghassan; to this day, the Ghassan river valley remains less urbanized and based more around pastoral farming and subsistence agriculture. The first dynasty, known as the Dilmun dynasty, fell around c. 3000 BCE due to the rise of Islam