Kryvian subcontinent

Kryvia or the Kryvian subcontinent is a geographical region in the southeastern Eulabia projecting southwards to the Eulabian Ocean. It is mainly inhabited by Slavs who assimilated much of the native population.

Map of the Kryvian subcontinent

History

Pre-history

There is evidence of an ancient human civilizations existing in Kryvia as far as 5000 BC. The first known civilizations sprung to existance in the Rzhuchana valley. Oldest bronze tools found in this region can be dated to 3000 BC. It is around this time when the so-called Rzhuchanian civilization is founded. This term refers to a collective of city-states located around Rzhucha river. In 2500 BC the so-called Yesretani civilization is formed on the island of Damalis. It was a civilization of merchants and seafarers and were responsible for the formation of multiple colonies on the southern and eastern shores of the subcontinent. It is theorized that the ancient Yesretanis themselves were not native to Kryvia, but that they come from the east.

Iron Age

The Kryvian iron age began around 1000 BC. The Kryvia saw a rise of advanced city states, especially in the south, where the city-states of Acruia and Marcadia became particulary developed. In around 750 BC, one of the Marcadian colonies separated it from its mother state and formed the Kingdom of Lendos. It soon came to dominate the northern regions of Kryvia. In 658 BC, Dimitrios I ascended to the throne of Lendos, his rule saw huge swaths of Kryvia conquered under the Lendosian banner.

Upon his death in 639 BC the Empire split into multiple succesor states, the most powerful being the Atusian Kingdom in the south. The Atusians further subjugated western and sourthern parts of Kryvia, establishing themselves as the military powerhouse of the region. The remaining Elinkan states meanwhile oragnized into so-called Leagues, the major ones being the Acruian League and the Marcadian League.

This regional order would come to an end in the 2nd century BC with the subjugation of Atusian by the Republic of Pavia. Pavians already had some presence in Kryvia by the 3rd century BC, when it took over the city-state of Tesus (today's Chernogorod). But it is only during the 3rd century when it entered in an open conflict with the Kingdom of Atusia. Following the series of Pavio-Atusian Wars the former Atusian kingdom was organized into multiple Pavian provinces.