Glestingsweald

Grand Duchy of Glestingsweald Gumrîce râd Glestingawolde (Glestisc)
Flag Coat of arms of Glestingsweald Coat of arms
Motto: Āstand Fæt ge Blōw
Glestingsweald in Southern Mesia
Capital	Magoncaister
Largest city	Linnburh
Official languages	Glestisc
Recognised national languages	Jomðrigan Ilænisc Umbrisc
Demonym(s)	Glestisc
Government	Parliamentary Constitutional monarchy
• Beltic-Eorl	Arlon II Foultun
• Governour	Morven Adkins
Legislature	Witan
• Upper house	Bur of Brytan
• Lower house	Bur of Ċeorlfolc
Area
• Total	497,322 km2 (192,017 sq mi)
Population
• 2019 estimate	8,157,300
• Density	168/km2 (435.1/sq mi)
HDI (2017)	0.892 very high
Currency	Feoh (GWF)
Date format	DD-MM-YYY CE
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.GWF

The Grand Duchy of Glestingsweald, commonly called Glestingsweald or Glestingawolde, is a constitutional monarchy Southeastern Flrumleohema. It is bordered to the south by Ilæniswolde, and to the east by the Mesisc Strait. Glestingawolde covers 497,322 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 8,157,300. The country comprises of ?? subdivisions with its capital in Magoncaister, located on the Cantware Peninsula in Southern Glestingawolde.

The country largely consists of flat alder glades, broken up by river valleys and temperate plains, that are home to Glestisc, Ilænisc, and Swabex populations. Located to the east are the hilly Jomðíeg Islands, home to the majority of Glestingawolde's Jomðrigan population. The majority of the population adheres to the Ceallīċ faith.

Etymology

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History

Pre-Imperial Tribes

All prior to 300BCE

Sūdawealdh Colonialism

Metthelle Temple, purpotedly the first Sūdarigan building in Cantware.

In approximately 300BCE, the Sūdawealdh-Héafodríce sent colonial expeditions to the coastline of Glestingawolde, with the first Sūdarigan settlements being founded on the Cantware Peninsula near modern-day Magoncaister. Of these early settlements, a fort known as Metthelle grew to be an early urban centre and most important city in the region until the mid-100s BCE. It, like many other early settlements in Glestingawolde, was primarly a hub of penal labour due to its location on the frontier. The largest efforts of penal production were primarily extraction-oriented, focusing on lead, silver, and tin mining however vineyards became an important aspect of the region's colonial economy in the latter half of Sūdarigan settlement of Glestingawolde.

Through subsequent decades, the coastal tribes of Tetinsbryg, Baswisse, and Godhelmgas, amongst several smaller tribes, were brought into the Sūdarigan tribute-sphere by means of peaceful embassies. However, despite successful attempts to subjugate the coastal tribes, much of the inland remained independent and largely uncooperative towards the Sūdarigan effort - raids were often conducted on important coastal trade routes, and a cultural divide grew during the following centuries between coastal and inland tribes. This lack of progress is attributed to the Sūdarigan focus on their larger, urban colonies in Ilæniswolde to the south. Ilæniswolde had a much smaller native population, resulting in a larger number of Sūdarigan slaves and citizens immigrating to fill the labour shortage.

By 50BCE, both Norð-Jomðíeg, Súþ-Jomðíeg, and the northern interior of modern-day Glestingawolde were under Sūdarigan influence, to varying degrees of autonomy. The Jomðíeg Islands, once home to the Clægtun tribes, had been converted into one of the region's largest clay mining industries. In the northern interior, a number of rebellious tribes had been subjected to harryings over the course of the last century. This was a result of continued resistance to urbanisation policies intended to break down the inland-coastal divides, as well as wider Sūdarigan leadership.

Photo of the River Brattburne.

While regional Sūdarigan power remained centred in 'Iolanthium' in Ilæniswolde, northern power had gradually moved its focus from Metthelle towards the Sūdarigan-founded city of Linnburh, located along the northern river of Brattburne. The move is believed to be the result of military activity, and in turn administrative authority, in Glestingawolde moving northwards, with Linnburh being used as a hub.

A concentrated effort was targeted at reigning in the central inland tribes during the fifth-century CE. [then this lays the seeds for resentment over the next century that end with the indigenous peoples siezing cities up to the modern-day Glestingawolde border, straining the Ilæniswolde colony and potentially further enabling the slave revolt in the 700s.]

Post-Imperial Tribes & Jomðrigan Migration

690CE-820CE

Formation of Glestingawolde

820CE-850CE

Grand Duchy of Glestingawolde

850CE-1790CE

Kærufinnas Tribute

1790CE-1820CE

Linnburh Revolution

1820CE-1940CE

Modern Period

1940CE-Present