Nua Taois
Nua Taois
Nutos | |
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Town | |
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| Motto(s): Pride and industry | |
| Country | File:ImaguaFlag.png Imagua and the Assimas |
| Parish | Saint Isidore's |
| Founded | 1522 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Bob Manning |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Town | 95,548 |
| • Rank | 3rd in Imagua and the Assimas |
| • Urban | 95,548 |
| • Metro | 168,202 |
| Time zone | Imaguan Standard Time |
| • Summer (DST) | not observed |
Nua Taois (Imaguan Creole: Nutos) is the fourth largest settlement in Imagua and the Assimas, the third largest on the island of Imagua, and is the capital of Saint Isidore's Parish. Established in 1522, it is the third-oldest settlement of Imagua and the Assimas, after Cuanstad and Altaithe.
Etymology
Nua Taois was named after the Caldish word for "new Taois," with Taois deriving from the Caldish country of Taois. It is believed to be named that by settler (TBC), who noted the similarities of the area around the mouth of the Wensley River to the county of Taois.
The Imaguan Creole name is Nutos, coming from a translation of Nua Taois into Ostisk as Ny Taois, which was adapted into Imaguan Creole as Nutos.
While during Estmerish rule, it had been called New Taois, Nua Taois was still the commonly used form, and was officially adopted in 1921.
History
Pre-colonial era
Due to its position on the coast, there is substantial evidence that prior to Imagua's discovery by Euclean explorers, the site of Nua Taois was a major centre inhabited by indigenous Arucians. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of Arucian settlements, especially under the present-day central business district of Nua Taois.
Settler (TBC) noted when he first named the area that "the homes of the natives were spread out across the land, separated by farms," and noted that save for a settlement "where the river expelled its water into the sea," with a harbour, there was "not as much settlement."
Colonial era
Nua Taois was established by Caldish settlers in 1522, along the banks of the Wensley River. While it was initially a minor agricultural village like Altaithe, due to Nua Taois' distance from Cuanstad, in 1525, it was made the capital of Saint Isidore's Parish.
A church, Saint Isidore's Church, was opened in 1545, and by 1550, it had a population of around fifty settlers, and seventy indigenous people.
Following the annexation of Imagua by Ordennya in 1562, Nua Taois fell under Ordennyan rule, but still remained the centre for the northern plains, as it was still remote from the primary economic centre of the island, Cuanstad, despite the administration of the archipelago was still carried out primarily through their colony in Eldmark. Ordennyan rule continued until Estmere captured Cuanstad in 1658.
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Contemporary era
As more people left the countryside from the 1950s onwards, those in the parishes of Saint Isidore's and Saint Fiacre's gravitated towards Nua Taois and its surrounding communities, as Nua Taois was substantially closer to them than Cuanstad, while providing many of the same opportunities that existed within Cuanstad.
This benefited Nua Taois, which expanded in both area and in population between 1951 and 1981, when most of the rural migration to the urban centres took place.
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Geography
Nua Taois is situated on the northern coast of the island of Imagua, where the Wensley River empties out into the Arucian Sea. It is situated at the transition between the northern plains covering much of the coast of Saint Isidore's and Saint Fiacre's, and the central mountains on the island.
The highest point is Commodore Hill, at seventy-eight metres above sea level, while the lowest point is sea level, making Nua Taois relatively flat.
Like the rest of the country, Nua Taois experiences a tropical monsoon climate, with average high temperatures being 32 °C (89.6 °F), and average low temperatures being 20.5 °C (68.9 °F). The wet season is generally from May to October, while the dry season typically lasts from November to April, although the months of April and November receive more rain than any other month in the dry season.
The highest recorded temperature in Nua Taois was 37.2 °C (99 °F), recorded on 26 July 1939, while the lowest recorded temperature in Cuanstad was 17.7 °C (63.9 °F), recorded on 4 January, 1912.
Government
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Nua Taois' civic government is, like other municipalities on Imagua and the Assimas, based off a mayor (Etrurian: sindaco), elected at large by the citizenry every four years, and a twelve-member town council (Etrurian: consiglio comunale), which is elected at the same time as the mayor, although residents of each of the twelve wards elect their own councillor to represent them.
The current Mayor of Nua Taois is Bob Manning, who was first elected in 2004, and has been re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016.
On the parochial level, Nua Taois is represented by twenty one of the fourty seats on the parochial council of Saint Isidore's.
On the national level, Nua Taois is represented by five constituencies in the Lesser House of the Imaguan Parliament, due to its large population.
Population
As of the 2011 census, Nua Taois is the fourth largest city in Imagua and the Assimas, with a population of 95,548 people, and has the third largest metropolitan area comprising of Nua Taois, Knowleston, and other smaller communities, with its metropolitan population being 168,202 people, making up 12.8% of Imagua's population.
Ethnically, Nua Taois is split, with 62,106 people, or 64.9% of the population being Bahio-Imaguan, and 30,237 people, or 31.6% of the population being of Euclean descent. It has the highest percentage of indigenous Imaguans living in an urban area, with 2.3% of the population, or 2,177 people, being of indigenous descent. The remaining 1% of the town's population, or 1,028 people, belong to other ethnic groups.
Religiously, 99.9% of the population, or 95,481 people, follow Sotirianity, with the remainder following either other religions, or are irreligious.
The largest Sotirian sects are Bahrism, with roughly fourty percent of the town's population, or 38,192 people, following it, followed closely by Catholicism, with 39.3% of the population, or 37,553 adhering to it, with the remainder of the Sotirian population following other sects such as the Low Estmerish Church and the High Estmerish Church.
Linguistically, Estmerish is the most predominant language, with 93,872 people, or 98.3% of the population using it on a regular basis. Only 1.5% of the population, or 1,433 people, speaks Etrurian on a regular basis, while 0.2% of the population, or 243 people, do not use either official language on a regular basis.
The largest non-official native language is Imaguan Creole, with 82,171 people, or around eighty-six percent of the population speaking it as a native language, with only 0.3% of Nua Taois' population speaking other non-official languages. Thus, the remainder speak either Estmerish or Etrurian as a native language.
Transportation
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As the second-largest metropolitan area on the island of Imagua, Nua Taois is a key node in the country's road netowrk, with the Imaguan Motorway passing through Nua Taois, and Nua Taois being the origin of many roads spreading into the rest of the northern plains.
Nua Taois has a public transit system called Nua Taois MetroBus.
Culture
Due to Nua Taois' history and location in Imagua and the Assimas, it has developed its own culture.