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Imperial State of the Crown of Angvar | |
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| Motto: Nacht sei mit uns "Night be with us" | |
| Anthem: Lok'Ongvátar "Song of Angvar"  | |
| Badge of the House of Mordegard Insignien des Haus von Mordegard  | |
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| Capital and largest city | Mordegard |
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| Official script | Blackletter script (Fraktur) |
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| Demonym(s) | Angvarian |
| Government | Unitary absolute monarchy under |
• Monarch | Katharina XII |
| The Marquis of Doth | |
Angvar (/ˈɒŋvɑː/ (
listen); Angvarian: Ongvátar [ɔŋˈβʌtɑʀ]; Nemedian: Eisenheim [ˈaɪseːnhaɪm̩]), officially the Imperial State of the Crown of Angvar (Angvarian: Pórandor-búbhosh Ashdurbûzg Ongvátar; Nemedian: Kaisertum der Eisenheimʃes Reichskrone) is a transcontinental sovereign state comprising of the mainland of the Cimmerian continent and its adjoined subcontinents of Acheron and Borania, most of Eastern Hyboria and northern Seria, numerous islands in the Atlantean and Lemurian oceans and various overseas territories and associated states. At 40,998,796 square kilometres (15,829,724 square miles), or three and a half times the size of Cimmeria, Angvar is the largest country in the world by area. Bounded to the north by the Boreal Sea, to the south by the Obrisian Sea, to the west by the Maulland Sea and to the east by the Kippon Sea, it borders Draconia and Ostenia to the west, Sylvania to the southwest, Obrisia, Berbania and Varkania to the south, and Seria to the east, while sharing maritime borders with the North Sea Realm and Kippon in the west and east, respectively. Via its overseas possessions, it borders the Ankin-Fúbù Union, Kaozhi, Liujiang, and Jianqing by way of the Legation Zones in Seria; Baqet, Lozi-Vulu, Kikivu, Ngubu and the Haziri Boqorate in Maurica; and New Zancora, Pregonia and New Tilgard in Upper Brenonnica. In addition to its 169 governorates, 40 of which are overseas; 18 internal and external territories and one capital district, there are two associated states, namely Gaietia in Auralia and Totenheim. The westernmost and easternmost governorates in the mainland are Weißeheldenburg and Vladivoyna, respectively, while the northernmost point overall is in the external territory of Kaiser Albrechts-Land in Borealia and the southernmost being the Los Island in the Auralian Ocean. With a population exceeding 1.27 billion people, 60.81 percent being ethnic Angvarians, Angvar is the second-most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city, Mordegard, has a population of around 440 million residents; followed by other major cities such as Sankt-Ninuesburg, Valenborg, Balzhed, Drestholm, Núrnhalt, Altbruck, Skarbolg, Rabenraus, Hexentreffen, Lestatshafen and Mordhelm.
Since prehistoric times, the continent of Cimmeria has been at first sparsely inhabited by anthropophagic cave-dwelling peoples whose descendants have come to be referred to as Wendol by classical writers. The period of the 50th–7th millennia BCE saw the continent being fiercely contested by quasi-mythical empires from the Finngolic and Hwan to the Atlantean and later Acheronian empires. The Ungols, a people of hitherto obscure origins, migrated to the continent approximately in the 30th millennium BCE from as far as the Utter East, followed by the Iron Horde, a confederacy of predominantly-Ungol peoples (from which the name Angvar is also derived) that settled in the Hyborian half after crossing the Udal Mountains on the same route as their predecessors before integrating into Hyborian culture and even enduring the decline of Hyborian civilization by the 8th millennium BCE. Archaic Argosians settled its Lapetan coastline in the 8th–6th centuries, founding colonies that evolved into independent city-states and traded with the Iron Horde. The Aurean Empire conquered and settled the region in 110 CE, subsequently acculturating the peoples and establishing the client state of Great Tervania after subjugating the Iron Horde in 126 CE. Due to the period of military anarchy in the Aurean Empire, the Iron Horde ruled Great Tervania as a breakaway state from 365 CE until it was recaptured in 404 CE, remaining under Aurean rule until the collapse of the Aurean Empire and the onset of the Wendol incursion in the late 6th century, after which the Ungols once again emerged as a recognizable group as they were tens of thousands of years ago.
Numerous Ungol states across Eastern Hyboria and Cisudalian Cimmeria emerged by 610 CE, one of which was the Duchy of Angvar, which was traditionally said to have been founded in the late 7th century under the shadow of Great Tervania. The Duchy, sitting at the confluence of the Mordel and the Iral rivers in the area of what is now the Mordegard Governorate, formally adopted Catheric Keanuism from the Holy Nemedian Empire in the late 8th century. The destruction of Great Tervania by the Wendol and the arrival of Nemedian settlers in the 9th century saw the Duchy defending itself against a Wendol invasion. The Duchy later became a kingdom in 1069 with the ascension of Louis V to the throne, thereby laying the foundation of the Angvarian state. Other kingdoms contested its growing power for three centuries up to the time when it narrowly battled the feudal lords to restore royal power, and in 1440 it fought to successfully unify the warring kingdoms of Cisudalian Cimmeria, contend with the power of the Novigard Republic and the North Sea Realm and tripled its size to incorporate the territories of the subjugated realms of Khând, Ursh and Ashghabur.