Kingdom of Belhavia

The Kingdom of Belhavia
1650–1715
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Capital	Provisa
Common languages	Yiddish Modern Hebrew
Religion	Judaism
Government	Absolute monarchy
King of Belhavia
• 1650 - 1681	Eliezer I
• 1708 - 1715	Moshe I
Lord President of the Royal Privy Council
• 1650 - 1662	Yosef of Dakos
• 1713 - 1715	Benyamin ben Cohen
Historical era	Early modern era
• Conclusion of the War of the Grand Ducal Succession	February 18th, 1650
• First Empire Declared	March 3rd, 1715
Currency	Belhavian shekel
Succeeded by Belhavian Empire Image
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The Kingdom of Belhavia, commonly also known as the First Monarchy of Belhavia, was the name of the centralized Belhavian state from Eliezer of Dakos' assumption of the title of King in February 1650 until his great-grand-nephew Moshe I's crowning as Emperor in March 1715 in the aftermath of the Great South War.

The Kingdom was the first of several Belhavian states that would resurrect the Jewish monarchy, which fell out of use in the 1320s after the death of the last King of the Exilic Era, Samuel IV, whose death sparked the Century of Troubles leading to the emergence of the Grand Duchy of Belhavia. At the conclusion of the War of Grand Ducal Succession, the victorious ducal warlord Eliezer of Dakos instead proclaimed a restoration of the monarchy.

The Kingdom would oversee the initial attempts to settle Belhavian Taveria below the so-called "taiga line" of Middle Belhavia, with exploratory forays into what is now the Far South. Royal Belhavia also established treaties and exchanged embassies with leading North Lusankyan powers, and the trans-West Central Ocean trade between Belhavia, Arthurista, the Papal States, and Basileria flourished.

Foreign intellectual ideas slowly trickled their way into the kingdom, leading to the early Age of Illumination thinkers to formulate radical and subversive ideas that would lead to the Haskalah and the centuries-old chiloni-dati divide in Belhavian society.

After his decisive military victories and annexation of overseas Estovnian territories in the Great Southern War, King Moshe I proclaimed himself Emperor with the support of the Great Powers of Lusankya and established the First Belhavian Empire.

Industrialization, modernization, and expansion: Eliezer III and Moshe I

Modernization

Main articles: Royal Navy (Belhavia) and Royal Army (Belhavia)

Great Southern War

Main article: Great Southern War

Establishment of the First Belhavian Empire

Main article: Belhavian Empire

See also

• Second Empire of Belhavia (1949 - present)
• Provisional Government of Belhavia (1945 - 1949)
• Galarian Autocracy (1940 - 1945)
• First Empire of Belhavia (1715 - 1945)