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Post-war
In the aftermath of the Great War, the area of present-day Lemovicia initially remained part of the Miersan Governate. However, as tensions rose across the region, which culminated in the Miersan general strike which also affected Lemovicia, due to its majority Miersan population. However, due to fears from the Lemovician population that they would be assimilated into the Miersan identity, and concerns that Narozalica would lose control of their coal and iron deposits, in conjunction with a desire by the Narozalic authorities to keep West Miersa under their sphere of influence, when the Godfredson Plan was drawn up, Lemovicia remained part of the Narozalic Republic.
Due to Lemovicia remaining part of Narozalica, it became its own province, with the capital set up in Mistozboru (present-day Topagunea). As well, given Lemovicia's strategic position in the middle of the continent, combined with its resources, the Narozalic government sought to maintain control over the region. To this end, Narozalica invested in expanding road and rail connections between Lemovicia and present-day Minilov, which remained under Narozalic control at that point in time. At the same time, with standards of living rising, particularly in Lemovicia's cities, combined with the continuing exploitation of Lemovicia's natural resources, prospects for wealth attracted Narodyns into Lemovicia, which continued to make ethnic Lemovicians a minority: while in 1937, their share of the provincial population was at 46%, by 1977, it had fallen to a mere 34% of the provincial population.
By the 1970s, as the coal and iron mines in Lemovicia began to close, many Lemovicians began to turn against the Miersan and Narodyn populations, with many Lemovicians increasingly being influenced by ethnic nationalism. This was further exacerbated by the growing authoritarianism of Vilem Gardos in Narozalica, who tried to centralise power towards himself and the governing Narozalic Nationalist Party, which led to tensions between Gardos' supporters and his opponents, and thus, to a weakening of Narozalic authority.