Coastal Crusade
| Coastal Crusade | |||||||||
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| Part of the Hesperidesian Crusades | |||||||||
 Imperial Army marches into Ravetta province | |||||||||
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File:KingdomofBasilea.png Kingdom of Basilea File:KingdomofRavetta.jpeg Kingdom of Ravetta File:KingdomofAlbandaea.png Kingdom of Albandaea |
 Empire of Exponent | ||||||||
The Coastal Crusade was a military campaign in western Heseperidesia that eliminated the Latin Kingdoms of Hesperidesia and secured the Empire of Exponent's position as hegemon on the continent.
Background
While the Hesperidesian Crusades were initially meant by Maximinus I as a holy mission to defend Christianity against the savage natives and protect the Exponential borders, the vision of a unified land started taking shape as their successes mounted: a unified Hesperidesia.
Upon defeating the savage Tribal King of Asberam with the Northern Crusade, the next target could only be the Latin Kingdoms of Hesperidesia – whose resistance to the Imperial Rule dated back to the Schism of Paradisia in the third century AD, being only tolerated thanks to the common faith they shared in Christ.
The war officially began in 1164, after Pope Simeon II excommunicated the King of Basilea, Etheldred IV for his unchristian marriage to a tribal woman and his refusal of repudiating her.
As a consequence of the excommunication, the Latin Kingdoms of Basilea, Ravetta and Albandaea – that thrived by co-existing with the native tribes – made common cause and leveraged a hefty tax on the “worldly possessions of the Church”, as written in the edict cosigned by the three Kingdoms.
For this heinous act against the Church, thus against God, the Pope called for a Crusade and the Empire of Exponent promptly answered.
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Morrosetta and Costa de Ouro
Albandaean merchants and seafarers had established ports and trading posts in the area of modern-day Morroseta and Costa de Ouro during the eleventh centry. With the collapse of the Kingdom of Albandaea in 1172, many leading Albandaean families became refugeees, fleeing to ports in the area with their possessions and establishing new kingdoms.