Mascyllary Kingdom

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Mascyllary Kingdom
Maskillisches Königreich
1793–1924
Motto: Vereint in Blut und Schwur
"United in blood and oath"
Nihil sine Deo
"Nothing without God" (Cambran)
Anthem: Sieg mit uns
(official anthem of the King)
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"Victory with us"
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The Mascyllary Kingdom on the eve of the Great War in green, territories lost after 1841 in light green
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CapitalLangquaid (1793-94)
Königsreh (1794-)
Common languagesOfficial:
Hesurian
Unofficial:
Cuthish
Valimian
Temarian
Falian
Religion
Semitarism
Demonym(s)Mascyllary
GovernmentFederal semi-constitutional monarchy
King 
• 1793–1827
Lucas I
• 1827–1847
Lucas II
• 1847–1882
Sophia I
• 1882–1892
Frederick I
• 1892–1923
Louis I
Prime Minister 
• 1793–1835
Wilhelm von Stenreck (first)
• 1924
Justus of Holnia (last)
LegislatureParliament
Reichssenat
Reichsrat
Historical era1793–1923
23 May 1793
• Constitution adopted
17 April 1796
• Great War
8 September 1910
10 March 1917
13 May 1923
2 June 1923
18 January 1924
Population
• 1800
26,800,000
• 1900
44,570,000
• 1909
47,720,000
• 1920
63,220,000
CurrencyMascyllary Karning (1793–1910)
Mascyllary Pappemark (1910–1918)
Mascyllary silver mark (1918–1923)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Elbgau Confederation
Kingdom of Adwhin
Kingdom of Holnia
Grand Duchy of Birchau
Grand Duchy of Tudonia
Grand Duchy of Amretz-Heinrichsbronn-Amsern
Duchy of Welsbach-Gehrach
Principality of Engelbart-Maining and Saalburg
Principality of Würthburg
Mascylla
Today part of Cuthland
 Lilienburg
 Mascylla
 Temaria

The Mascyllary Kingdom (Hesurian: Maskillisches Königreich), also inofficially known as the Kingdom of Mascylla (Hesurian: Königreich Maskillien) or simply Mascylla, was the Mascyllary nation state that existed from the unification of Mascylla in 1793 until the abdication and execution of King Louis I in 1923. The Mascyllary Kingdom was composed of 20 constituent states, most of them had been ruled by a royal family; these included five kingdoms, three grand duchies, five duchies, three principalities, and four independent cities.

The unification and establishment of Mascylla was belatedly concluded with the Treaty of Langquaid signed on 18 May 1793 to end the fighting of the War of the Five Kings, the subsequent proclamation of Lucas I, King of Aldia, as Mascyllary King (Maskillischer König) in Langquaid on 23 May, and the adoption of the Constitution on 17 April 1796. On the basis of the hegemony of the House of Ahnern over Mascylla as a whole and the exclusion of Adwhin from supranational power, the Mascyllary Kingdom was the first Mascyllary nation state in history.

The kingdom saw a major and gradual transformation of society and economy owed to the Industrial Revolution, while it socially and structually began to reform itself from an agrarian state to an industrial nation, with significant service, banking and manufacturing sectors and a steadily growing economy (colloquially called the Gründerjahre). The increasing emancipation of the growing middle class of entrepeneurs and politically active citizens prompted social reforms such as increased global trading, suffrage and socialism as political directive of the rising worker class. Structural basis of these developments include a rapid population growth, large migration and urbanisation.

The development of domestic and foreign policy was dominated by the fallout of the Second Cutho-Mascyllary War of 1839-41 and worsening enmity to Cuthland. Succeeding prime ministers and kings, most notably King Louis I, designed an intricate international network of alliances with Lavaria, Falland, and later Sarrac, similar to Wilhelm von Stenreck's original foreign policy in the 1830s abolished by the more ambitious Lucas II, which sought to combat the Central Alliance's powers of Cuthland and Dulebia in Berea. While the alliances were supposed to ensure peace among major powers, Louis I intensified the role of Mascylla as an imperialist and great power, vying to regain lost territories from Cuthland as revanchism and expand its colonial empire in overseas. International conflicts of interest arose quickly and laid the foundations of the later Great War.

The rise of labour unions and popular parties precipitated the liberalisation of the press and the growing importance of popular opinion in politics. Because of that, the government tried persuading and assuring the public through an imperialist foreign policy, a notably anti-social democratic internal policy and a popular expansion of naval forces (Reichsmarine). These interests found themselves at odds with Cuthish and Dulebian Empire, the latter of which being alienated by Mascylla's action despite their historic friendship through the rule of the Ahnern-Loxstedt-Hoeveden-Zhdanovy monarchy in Dulebia since the 1870s. The Great War was greatly exhausting and the eventual victory in 1916 came at a great cost in human and economic resources. The ratification of the Treaty of Lehpold in 1917 allowed Mascylla to reclaim its territories lost in 1841, pressure Cuthland into enormous war reparations and solidify itself as a forefront global hegemon. The Mascyllary colonial empire reached its territorial zenith by the 1920s, but the gradual rise of military influence on internal policy and the effects of intense warfare caused social and eventually political upheavel.

The Crowned Republic and the abdication of Louis I were declared during the October Revolution of 1923 and intense political and societal clashes and infighting. The National Assembly at Weidenau in 1924 constituted the kingdom as a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, and the first Prime Minister to wield a parliamentary majority, Peter Zeschtemann, was subsequently elected. Present Mascylla is identical to the Mascyllary Kingdom of 1793 according to international law, even though its form of government and territory have changed multiple times since.

History

Formation

Stenreck era

Gründerjahre

Cutho-Mascyllary War and aftermath

Rise as an empire

Great War

Politics

States

Map and table

Military

Population

Legacy

Territoral

Cultural and political