Suiyuu Cirrus
Suiyuu Cirrus | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
| Motto: Aim Higher | |
| Anthem: Storm Melancholy | |
 Location of Cirrus in Karazawa | |
| Capital and | Cobe Dainzu |
| Official languages | Azawarecha |
| Recognised regional languages | dzaha dzavui Diidxazá |
| Ethnic groups (2016) | Karazawi Aininians Nuu Davi Didxažon |
| Demonym(s) | Cirrusians |
| Government | Constitutional monarchy |
| Legislature | Cirrusian Assembly |
| Suiyuu of Karazawa | |
| Area | |
• | 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 2,400,000 |
• 2012 census | 2,367,889 |
• Density | 60/km2 (155.4/sq mi) |
Cirrus, officially the Suiyuu of Cirrus, is a first level administrative division on Karazawa. It's located to utmost north of the country, and is best known for its cosmopolitan culture, a mixture of local Nuu Davi, Didxažon, Totonac, Nahuatl, Aininian, and Karazawi influences. Before 1526, the region was divided in a great number of city-states, sometime under the hegemony of a foreign power, like Tula Secunda. The region was truly unified only With the creation of the Duchy of Cirrus, itself part of the Viceroyalty of Ultramer. Since the creation of this Duchy, the borders of Cirrus have known very little changes and remain almost untouched to this day. Most population today live alongside the coastline and the provincial capital : Dainzu. Economically, the region has reached a post-industrial stage, with a very important and well developed service sector, with many ties to the city of Austremer.
The Province is also home of some of the most reputed universities and research facilities of Karazawa, while the countryside welcome each year a great number of tourists who come to visit the Nuu Davi and Didxazon ruins or to appreciate the very unique architecture of the old districts, where many of what became the typical Ultramarists styles were first experimented.
History
Evidence of human habitation dating back to about 11,000 years BC has been found in the municipality of Lyobe. More finds of nomadic peoples date back to about 5000 BC, with some evidence of the beginning of agriculture. By 2000 BC, agriculture had been established in the Central region of the state, with sedentary villages. The diet developed around this time would remain until the Aininian Conquest, consisting primarily of harvested corn, beans, tomatoes, chili peppers, squash and gourds. Meat was generally hunted and included Paca, turkey, deer, peccary, armadillo and iguana.
The oldest known major settlements such as Ayuxudana and Yuyuxa are located in this area as well. Between 1200 and 900 BC, pottery was being produced in the area as well and show Ö'ome influences. The major native language family, Oto-Manguean, is thought to have been spoken in northern Oaxaca around 4400 BC and to have evolved into distinct branches by 1500 BC.
The Didxažon were the earliest to gain dominance over the region. The first major dominion was centered in Danipaxzo, home of 25,000 people and capital of a Didxažon State. Even after its downfall, it remained a secondary center of power until the Nuu Davi overran it during the 14th century. Didxažon codices tell of Danipaxzo as an ally of Tula Secunda which is apparent in its adoption of the talud-tablero architectural style. On the site of Danipaxzo are also present some of the oldest text of the area, written in hieroglyphs that have evolved from the Ö'ome Block Glyphs. The earliest known Didxažon glyphs have been dated to 800–700 BCE.
Starting from AD 700 previous large urban centers such as Danipaxzo fell accross Cirrus and smaller dominions grew and evolved until the Aininian Conquest of 1525. Between 700 and 1300, the Nuu Davi were scattered among various dominions, such as Yodzocoo, and the Didxažon remained concentrated in the central plain and coastal north. However, no major city state arose again, with villages and city-states remaining small, between 1,000 and 3,000 people with a palace, temple, ball court, market and residences. These and larger centers also functioned as military fortresses in time of invasion.
While the Didxažon remained dominant in many parts of the Central Regions and into the North Coast, the Nuu Davi were pushing into their territory, taking hold in the Southern Highlands, and in what became known as the Davi Lowlands. They notably conquered Danipaxzo and established a new polity there, even if its capital moved to the nearby town of Lyobaa, modern day Lyobe. In areas they conquered, they became prolific builders, leaving behind numerous monuments. However, the conquest of Cirrus was never completed with pressure coming from the south with the Thlatoloyan Acolhua in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Didxažon and Nuu Davi created vast alliance-systems with each others to defend themselves against this new threat.
In 1450, the Acolhua invaded a large portion of modern day Cirrus, gaining control, demanding tribute and establishing military outposts. They then began to take control of trade routes in the area and part of the coastal regions. In 1490, they established a permanent military base at Tizoyacac. Most of the Nuu Davi territories had fell, with the exception of the Highlands, while independent Didxažon cities remained to the North, united as part of the kingdom of "Second Zachila", ruled by the Coquitao-in-exile Kosi'ioeza. Second Zachila was the dominant power of the alliance against the Acolhuas until the death of Kosi'ioeza, when that position de-facto fell to the Nuu Davi king Iya Nacuaa of Cobe Dainzu.
In 1524 The Nuu Davi King Iya Nacuaa, the Aininian Adventurer Pierre de Lamarque, and the Totonac leader Tikukelanga, formed the "Triple-Alliance" against the Thlatoloyan Acolhua. This rebellion curbstomped the expansion of the Acolhuas, and forced the Hueytlatoani to accept Pierre de Lamarque as the "Inner Ruler" of his empire. But further troubles, instability, and a revolt of the Acolhuas against the Aininians and their allies leading to the death of the Huetlatoani and of most of his family, definitively destroyed the Thlatoloyan, who was replaced by Viceroyalty of Ultramer. The destruction of the Thlatoloyan immediately spelled doom for the Davi-Dixazon Alliance, which broke up and resumed the fighting among rival cities, starting the Cloud War of 1526. It's only after this war that the Duchy of Cirrus was formed and integrated to Ultramer, with Iya Nacuaa as its first Duke. In the meantime, Iya Nacuaa became both the step-brother of Pierre de Lamarque, and the step-son of Tikukelanga, solidifying the transformation of the Triple-Alliance into what will be called the "Lamarquist Faction".
Geography
Cirrus is the northernmost Suiyuu of Karazawa. It's bordered by the Suiyuu of Austremer to its south-west and by Suiyuu Ianteperhi to its south-east. It has a territory of approximatively 40,000 km². The geography is characterized by a mostly flat coastal plain and a more rugged, hilly, but low in elevation, interior, with many valleys. There's no navigable rivers in these region, but lot of smaller ones, most of which take their source in the Do'zo Hills, which split the central hill in a western and eastern half.
Climate
The Suyuu seat just north of the tropic of Aquarius. Its coastal area and a large part of its central hills fall under a Tropical rainforest climate, largely dominated by the trade-winds and currents from the Lazarene Sea.